Sitting in her home in one of Santiago de Cuba’s residential neighborhoods, smiling and calm, retired Mercedes Lina Cathcart spells out her strange surname before sharing her view about racial discrimination. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city in the country.
Read MoreLife has hit Solange Centeno, 20, hard. At a very young age, she came home one night to find her mother had been murdered by her boyfriend. Today the single mother is living through yet more hard times that she perhaps never imagined – she finds herself in jail with a long sentence for protesting against the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
Read MoreTattoos aren’t just a business, they are a lifestyle and a way to connect with other people and artistic movements, says Ana Lyem Lara, the founder of Zenit Tattoo Studio. Members of this studio located in Santa Fe (a beach town to the west of the capital), combine their work with different arts and community projects.
Read MoreThe last time Alejandro Ubau Hernandez spoke with his niece Lucia Pineda Ubau, editor-in-chief of 100% Noticias channel, the journalist expressed her concern about the permanent siege of paramilitaries and the Police at her workplace. A week later, on December 21st, Lucia and Miguel Mora, director of this media outlet, were abducted in a police operation that culminated in the occupation of the premises and the cancellation of the popular channel’s signal.
Read MoreBernardo Benes was “guilty” of contributing to the release of 3,600 political prisoners in Cuba (1979), fostering a dialogue between Washington and Havana, making a decisive contribution to a change in the profile of the Cuban exile community in Miami and developing the creation of different institutions to provide aid and understanding between Cubans, US citizens, Latin Americans, Jews and Christians.
Read More“I couldn’t plant my cornfield in May, because it rained too early. I lost everything,” lamented Marcos Canté, an indigenous farmer, as he recounted the ravages that climate change is wreaking on this municipality on Mexico’s Caribbean coast. The phenomenon, caused by human activities has altered the ancestral indigenous practices based on the rainy and dry seasons.
Read MoreLopez Obrador himself hasn’t offered a lot in terms of explaining what his international politics might look like. On Monday morning, January 14, during a press conference with the national media in the National Palace, he reaffirmed his campaign position that he’d maintain a policy of non-intervention in the internal affairs of other countries.
Read MoreCounteracting what the government considers to be an anti-decree 349 media campaign and explicitly stating its essence and reach, Cuba’s cultural authorities have been holding meetings with artist and writers’ unions all over the country, since late December.
Read MoreIn the heart of Old Havana, on the corner of Villegas and Teniente Rey streets to be exact, you can find Clandestina, a store/workshop painted all in white against a discolored and run-down landscape. It’s been nearly four years since the Cuban Idania del Rio and Leire Fernandez of Spain launched their business which they wanted to be economically sustainable.
Read MoreAs the threat of water scarcity increasingly grows, many have turned to the Earth’s plentiful oceans for a solution. However, this has created a new risk threatening public and environmental health: brine. Across 177 countries, there are now 16,000 desalination plants.
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