Carlos Tunnermann, a member of the Blue and White Unity coalition, insisted that “it is paradoxical that a government that is practicing repression will also want to pay homage to someone who was killed for demanding precisely the end of the repression.”
Read More“I’m not thinking about donating my skin to science,” the red-head said to the man selling lighters. The guy had pestered her about the tattoos that covered her immaculate skin, which was virgin to ink until she was 26 years old, and (to top that all off) this skin belonged to a young university professor.
Read More“The Cuban population is falling in absolute terms and this intensifies its aging process,” demographer Juan Carlos Alfonso Fraga, explained. Emigration, especially of young adults, is the main reason for this population decline, which accentuates the low number of child-bearing age inhabitants.
Read MoreSince the state repression began in April, Nicaraguan artists have made known their support for the repressed population through songs and statements. The Milly Majuc Band has gone further and has supported it in different ways: playing at sit-ins, dedicating songs for those murdered by the Daniel Ortega regime and recently joined the consumer boycott called for on social networks.
Read MoreWith a frown of concern, Socorro Corrales invites us to quickly enter the house. “Come in! Come in! In front lives a “toad”—says the anguished old lady referring to a supporter of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega—this persecution is horrible…on Saturday the police officers entered like animals and took them away.”
Read MoreMatt Andres Romero, 16 years old, and Alvaro Conrado, 15 years old, were in the same grade but in different schools of Managua: tenth grade of high school. Both were joined by the Ortega regime in a list of 29 children and teenagers killed until now, in more than five months of civic protests.
Read MoreIt seemed that nothing could stop her. She got up from her chair, took the microphone and raised her voice. “We have the right to live. Without life, we have nothing. I’m grieving for Nicaragua,” she said brusquely. Many applauded, others yelled; with more assurance, she continued talking. That was her moment, and no one could silence her.
Read MoreIncluding the Constitution that is currently being debated today under the Cuban Communist Party’s (PCC) watch, Cuba will have had 4 Constitutions in 118 years, none of which have clearly defined the Isle of Youth’s (previously Isle of Pines) administrative and territorial status as part of the Cuban archipelago.
Read MoreUltra-rightwinger Jair Bolsonaro won the first round of the Brazilian elections on Sunday and in three weeks will compete in a runoff with the Worker’s Party candidate Fernando Haddad for the presidency. These are the most uncertain elections in the South American giant since the end of the dictatorship in 1985.
Read MoreOpposition activist and environmental lawyer Monica Lopez Baltodano left Nicaragua and went into exile in Costa Rica after receiving death threats from the government of Daniel Ortega, she announced today in a video broadcast through social networks.
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