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The Desperate Situation of Nicaragua’s Political Prisoners

Monitoring organizations denounce numerous daily abuses committed against the political prisoners, including inadequate food & total isolation

Cuba is emptying out, a phrase we hear a lot, and it’s no wonder: the country is experiencing the largest wave of migration in its history.

The foreign ministers of Brazil, Colombia and Mexico said they received instructions to continue conversing about the situation in Venezuela.

The sale of school uniforms, which officially began on August 1, is already a display of long lines and complaints. Read why…

Strategies for hiding the tally sheets until they reached the designated locations, a result of collaboration between witnesses and neighbors.

Hopes are for more “investments in the Cuban economy,” which remains in a coma despite Cuba’s alliances with Russia, China and Venezuela.

“He’s been here for a while, ever since he arrived in a car with his family, they went in, traveled and left him,” recall the workers at the airport.

The inability to withdraw money from Cuban banks has become a daily ordeal. People go from place to place, trying their luck at each ATM.

They want to be recognized as workers, obtain visibility for their harsh reality, and escape the unstable economic situation they endure.

“Maduro did not win the Venezuelan presidential elections on Sunday. He lost overwhelmingly,” says Maria Corina Machado, now in hiding.