At 65, Rosario Murillo is considered Nicaragua’s most powerful woman. Poet, writer, and exclusive spokesperson for the government, she’s reached the office of Vice President of the Republic at the hands of her husband, Daniel Ortega.
Read MoreViñales has become a tourist attraction par excellence for many people, where you can enjoy beautiful nature along with the comfort of a city. Living among the modernity which takes over this place more and more each day, there is a mogote where people live, a people who everybody wants to visit, but only a select few are able to understand them: the water-people. (12 photos)
Read MoreReforming the pension system is an ever more urgent task, given that the Nicaraguan Social Security Institute (INSS) has suffered losses for the fourth consecutive year (a deficit of US $44,295,000 in 2016), bringing ever closer the moment of an economic collapse if urgent changes aren’t made.
Read MoreGetting to know: … is a web series by Yaima Pardo that seeks to show the creative capacity, activism, self-learning, and all the good ideas that Cubans want to share in order to make a better Cuba together.
Read MoreA speech by President Raul Castro to the National Assembly on December 27th, accenting hard times ahead for 2017 had an impact on Cuban society. We took to the streets in order to assess public opinion on the news of recession.
Read MoreThe year 2017 opens in Cuba under the effects of 2016. The government announces a year of austerity with a tense economy despite the tourist boom, after revelations of a negative GDP growth in the year just concluded. Here are some of the most significant events that occurred last year.
Read MoreSatisfying the most demanding tastes of the French and European market, lover of exclusive fragrances, the French perfume house Guerlain has returned to the same place in Havana it once founded in 1917.
Read MoreUnlike many opposition opinions, in and out of Cuba criticizing the European Union’s action to abandon its Common Position on Cuba, Julio Antonio Aleaga Pesant is optimistic. Here is what the Executive Secretary of the Candidates for Change Opposition Platform (CxC) has to say.
Read MoreContrasting with the surprise vote in the United States, in November, other presidential elections were held in the region which did have a predictable outcome. With over 72% of votes, Daniel Ortega was reelected as President of Nicaragua for his third consecutive term.
Read MoreI am 55 years old and I’ve been using glasses ever since I was 30. It’s always been the same story for Cubans, getting your assigned time to get your eyesight checked at the polyclinic can take a good while. (6 photos)
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