The Government of Donald Trump today expanded the list of sanctioned Cuban entities with which all US citizens are prohibited from doing business with. Among them there are 16 hotels owned by the Cuban Army. The prohibition takes effect on Thursday
Read MoreUnder the orders of president Daniel Ortega, the Nicaraguan police revealed today that they will mobilize 15,000 officers in a “special security plan” and warned that they will not “ask anyone’s permission” to enter shopping centers that have been the scene of opposition protests.
Read MoreThe Cuban government announced today its withdrawal from the “More Doctors” program in Brazil, alleging that president-elect Jair Bolsonaro wants to change the conditions and directly hire doctors without the intermediation of the Cuban state. No date was given as to when the pull-out will occur.
Read MoreThe regime of Daniel Ortega accused non-governmental organizations in the United States and the European Union of being accomplices in the “crimes” that took place in the context of protests against the government, which broke out in mid-April, leaving more than 300 dead.
Read MoreFor Julio Cesar Espinoza, dying has never been an option. He’s young, with a wife and three sons, and five years ago he left a job he hated as a machine operator in the free trade zone, to achieve his dream of joining the police force. All was going well for him: he was finishing his high school diploma and next year he was due for a promotion.
Read MoreEach day during the month of October, Nicaraguan cartoonist Pedro X. Molina drew a portrait of one of the persons who were killed since the protests against the government began in April. He did this as part of the worldwide initiative Inktober created by US illustrator Jake Parker, in which illustrators from all over the world created pen and ink drawings to return to “the origins of design”.
Read MoreWhen there’s only just over a month before the Cuban government’s “package” of new regulations for self-employment come into effect, doubts and uncertainty are still prevalent in a sector that is calling them “arbitrary measures that have not been approved by anyone who will have to comply by them.”
Read MoreThe Dominican designer Cenia Paredes, owner of the Cenia New York label, declined to participate in the fashion event known as “Nicaragua Designs”, organized by Camila Ortega, daughter of President Daniel Ortega. Paredes’ stated reason was that she “doesn’t approve of the violence, or of any type or form of government repression anywhere.”
Read MoreThe US Department of Defense has given US $97,102 to Texas A&M AgriLife Research to study the Cuban hutia at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo, Cuba. Hutias are called banana rats because their bodily waste resembles little bananas. And the creatures are big – the size of small dogs. They can grow nearly two feet long and weigh up to 19 pounds.
Read MoreIn her farewell speech, the now former US Ambassador in Nicaragua, Laura Dogu, warned of the risk for the reputation of companies due to the political crisis, caused by Ortega’s massacre against citizens’ protests. “In today’s global economy, companies cannot afford to take on reputational risks. I have already seen campaigns in the United States asking companies why they are buying products from Nicaragua,” she said.
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