After first seeing its previously blossoming tourism industry collapse for the foreseeable future starting six months ago, now Ometepe Island’s other main traditional economic activity, the harvest and export of plantains, is at risk because the Central American truck buyers will think twice of traveling to the island where the paramilitaries have created a state of lawlessness.
Read MoreOn Oct. 19th, Luis Almagro, Secretary General of the Organization of American States, addressed the organization’s Permanent Council. He said that “something terrible is happening” in Nicaragua and that a continuation of the repressive policies of Daniel Ortega’s regime will obligate the organization to initiate “the proceedings of Article 20 of the Inter-American Democratic Charter.”
Read MoreWith shouts demanding the departure of Ortega and his wife, Rosario Murillo from power, thousands of Nicaraguans took to the streets to express their repudiation of the regime through social networks. These are the stories of three popular characters of the ongoing civic rebellion in Nicaragua.
Read MoreSources linked to four banking institutions confirmed to Confidencial the change in the rules in the currency market. But, they excuse themselves from showing an official document from the Central Bank, because until now it is non-existent: “We have nothing in writing, we were only notified through a telephone call,” they stated.
Read More#YoSoyPicoRojo [I’m redlips] is the new form of protest that’s united hundreds of internet users in solidarity with the political prisoners. This initiative was born from activist Marlen Chow’s response to the National Police officials during the interrogation she was subjected to in the cells of the El Chipote jail last Sunday, Oct. 14, when she told her insistent interrogators that she belonged to the Pico Rojo Association.
Read MoreThe Cuba Libros Literary Cafe (at least its essence) will disappear on December 7, 2018, when a “series” of new regulations for private business owners come into effect. Located on the corner of 24th and 19th streets, in Havana’s Vedado neighborhood, it’s a unique place for literature lovers, who find not only a juice or coffee there, but some books that aren’t normally found on public library shelves. Books written in English.
Read MoreAfter a year-long absence, many Havana shopping centers are selling flat screen TVs again. Before, the most sought-after model (32-inches) had run out or under the dust of existing models, cost so much that it encouraged people to personally import them in bulk from neighboring countries.
Read MoreOn Saturday, I went to “La Concha” beach, in the Playa municipality to the west of Havana city, with my sisters and my 10-year-old nephew. La Concha, was an old club that was very prosperous and popular before 1959. The unfortunate state of ruin it finds itself in today made me truly sad. (28 photos)
Read More“Why are you marching?” “Who is paying you?” “Who sends you?” These and other similar questions are part of the interrogation to which we were subjected, in the cells of the El Chipote interrogation prison, noted the protesters illegally detained by the National Police, last Sunday in Managua.
Read MoreLeslie Briceno was convinced that she was going to die. What she feared most wasn’t death itself, but the life that her eight-year-old son would have without her. She wept with frustration and impotence in her hospital bed, where there were dozens of doctors but no one did anything to help her. She thought about her dreams and the illusions she’d had a week ago…
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