After protests broke out 17 days ago, Nicaragua’s political crisis has hit sensitive economic sectors such as tourism and exports, warned private businessmen, who are urging the Government to establish a process of national dialogue as soon as possible.
Read MoreGovernment figures from the parade this year claim that over a thousand foreigners walked through Havana’s Revolution Square on May 1st. They didn’t protest, they didn’t make demands, they didn’t hold a demonstration: they just walked, just like the Cubans present, who didn’t protest or make demands either.
Read MoreNicaraguan university students demand that the government of Daniel Ortega allow the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the United Nations Office of the Rapporteur on Human Rights to investigate the deaths and alleged torture of young people detained during the recent protests.
Read MoreLike a Mexican cemetery on November 2nd (The Day of the Dead), hundreds of candles flickered in the darkness among flowers, crosses, cards and pictures. Every now and again, some girls break the circle and carefully move forward to replace the candles that are dying out.
Read MoreThe recent protests left a painful total of over 39 dead as the product of the repression. However, they also planted a “seed of hope” when the university students’ struggle unleashed a national civic rebellion.
Read MoreObviously, anonymous letters aren’t only limited to workplaces. Although a long tradition of using and exploiting them (encouraged by a government policy which allowed and even promoted them) has come to make us Cubans a kind of experts in the matter.
Read MoreOne week after the unprecedented protests against Ortega, tens of thousands remain in the streets demanding an end to the regime. Constitutional expert Gabriel Alvarez and economist Jose Luis Medal analyze the scenarios for a national dialogue.
Read MoreAt the entrance of San Francisco de Assis Convent, you can enjoy six out of the twelve characters created by artist Alberto Sanchez Castellon, where the body becomes a creative space. (7 photos)
Read MoreIn an attempt to attract high-end tourism, the Cuban government is building the biggest golf mega complex in Latin America, which means it’s the Communist regime’s most important push to develop facilities for a sport that Fidel Castro abolished 50 years ago because he considered it “bourgeois”.
Read MoreThe main stones along the island’s rocky path towards sustainable development are chaos and corruption, evils which brought about more than $8 billion USD in losses to the national economy last year.
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