The company “Alba de Nicaragua SA” (Albanisa) would be part of an “international criminal organization” related to “Petroleos of Venezuela SA” (PDVSA) to create front businesses for corruption purposes and launder money with the protection of the leaders of the ALBA countries, according to an investigation carried out by the US consultants Douglas Farah and Caitlyn Yates.
Read MoreCuba’s self-employed are dissatisfied with many things including the lack of legal protection they have and the treatment they receive from certain officials who interpret regulations at their own discretion, making them oblige.
Read MoreIf you’ve traveled through any large Latin American city lately you’ve undoubtedly seen Rappi at work. The company’s meteoric rise (its business grew by 20 per cent every month in 2018) has also been propelled by another less likely source: Venezuelan migrants.
Read MoreReady-made crafts, body art studios, bars, marketing and design services, event planning and I.T. solutions etc., all revealed the diversity of this Caribbean country’s private sector, at a fair held in the Cuban capital.
Read MoreWhen the human rights activist was just a teenager in the northern Colombian town of Tiquisio, Juan Meneses stood up against paramilitary groups which tried to pressure boys to join them at the gates of his school.
Read MoreOn Sunday, May 19, hundreds of citizens in Matagalpa bid farewell to the Nicaraguan political prisoner Eddy Montes. Montes, also a US citizen, who was killed by a bullet to the back at the La Modelo prison near Managua.
Read MoreReparations in Nicaragua are part of the demand for justice of the Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy, which includes the truth about the massacre and no repetition, based on the demands of the Mothers of April Association.
Read MoreOn the outskirts of Holguin, Yaima Ramirez dreams about her ecotourism agency “Cuba Hola” being so successful that it can offer other women like her a job. She describes herself as an entrepreneur, feminist and Christian.
Read MoreAccording to the Nicaraguan Interior Ministry, Eddy Antonio Montes Praslin, a political prisoner, was killed by a prison guard this Thursday, May 16, inside the La Modelo prison. The institution, under the Ortega-Murillo regime, asserted that the prisoners mutinied against the guards, who were “attacked” and acted “in self-defense”.
Read MoreIn a parallel universe Nicaragua has become a technologically advanced society, but it is dominated by the Orewellian State led by the Supreme Commander. This perverse being has created a plan to appropriate all assets and convert Nicaraguans into followers who cannot reason or think for themselves.
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