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Violence Against Cuban Women on the Migration Route

Chiapas has become fertile ground for organized crime. A place where human rights violations are considered “mere collateral damage.”

“Despite an investment of more than 24 billion dollars, the results show an alarming decline,” says Cuba Siglo 21.

Pardons given to 51,000 common criminals over ten years have cost the lives of at least 10 women, who fell victim to the released aggressors.

Despite the 1,583 legislative measures in 193 countries around the world, violence against women has not been eradicated or even abated.

The price of pork meat at Cuban markets has always worked as a thermometer to measure the state of the domestic economy.

Amid promise after promise about renewable energy sources, frequent blackouts have become “brief periods of light” in today’s Cuba. (Video)

Full of words, the 12-meter-high structure in Old Havana’s Plaza de Armas is a hymn to freedom and the power of literature.

Reform eliminates municipal autonomy, suppresses the independence of state powers, and fully subordinates the Army and Police.

The image in the cities is repeated: dark and impoverished streets, lit only by luxurious hotels that most Cubans cannot access.

The authors of the Isla Libre project call on citizens to “wake up and act” through peaceful civil resistance.