Lula cried on camera a few months ago, when he fervently rejected accusations against him. “Let them prove my corruption,” the former Brazilian president demanded. Now, on Wednesday, he was sentenced to nine and a half years in prison for taking part in the huge Petrobras corruption scandal.
Read MoreWord on the street has caused uneasiness among managers and trainers, but every day there are less and less ways of avoiding it: Cuban baseball is suffering a crisis and nothing else. Teams involved in international competitions have just proven this in recent days.
Read MoreAthiany wasn’t always involved in political causes, nor did she have that name. She was born with masculine sexual attributes, and from a very young age she concentrated on her studies, trying to have the least possible amount of contact with people. She studied public accounting at the National Technological Institute. Although she came out as a homosexual at 17, the worst suffering came from discrimination in the workplace as a result of her sexual orientation.
Read MoreBefore he was swept down a rushing river while fleeing the ambush of a guerrilla group; before he had visited a mass grave and filmed an assassination, Luis Fuentes was in charge of the projector in a movie theater.
Read MoreNicanor is worried because the rumor circulating in his neighborhood that the Cuban government is reaching an agreement with an Arab Sheikh to sell Cuba to him. While playing dominoes and drinking rum with some friends from a nearby apartment block, he found out that they were offering 5 billion USD for the island.
Read MoreJuan is a young father who is now unemployed after a not-so-happy go at work in the private sector, in the town where he lives in Pinar del Rio province, the Caribbean island’s most western province. After his daughter was born, and after several months of looking for a better-paid job, this 20-something year old man accepted a job that his neighbor Jorge, who runs a private cafe, offered him.
Read MoreYaima Pardo takes us on a trip to the Isla de la Juventued (Isle of youth) and an underwater excursion at Cocodrilo to the south of the island. Enjoy this 4 minute video.
Read MoreYears ago, Julio decided to “put a gadget together.” That is to say: buy a monitor here, the tower there, the keyboard God knows where… and so on until he had a complete computer. In the same way he restored each part, he also changed the operating system over time, from the simple Windows XP to today when his computer runs using Windows 10.
Read MoreAlthough the promise of an Inter-oceanic Canal fades on the horizon as time goes by, Law 840, awarding an all-encompassing concession to Chinese magnate Wang Jing, still represents a threat to the country.
Read MoreTwenty-seven frames decorate the walls of the room. Every one of them depicts a different story: his daughter’s birthday, the promenade to Managua’s old pier, the photo of his daughter when she was in 3rd grade, all symbols of joy. Freddy Mercado doesn’t want to bring his past to the present. “There’s no need, I’m going to remember it, but I don’t want photos of it,” he says bluntly.
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