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Freedom of Expression Silenced in Nicaragua

There are no longer newspapers, opinion programs, radio debates, or television debates; and fewer press conferences or public rallies.

Cubans occupy second place in refugee requests at the beginning of the year with 2,352 requests, only below the 3,213 from Honduras.

Former political prisoners exiled by the Ortega regime share details about their first year in the US, surviving the after effects of prison.

Irregularities in the rationed supply of foods increases the vulnerability of Cubans who face greater obstacles in accessing the basics.

Among the cases they highlight that of “Ignacio,” a Nicaraguan who claims to have been forced to discard the ashes of his father.

Today nothing escapes the collapses, the discolored facades and the decay of the entire city.

CONFIDENCIAL estimates that in 2023, at least 40 Nicaraguans died from causes related to the consumption of drugs laced with fentanyl.

The growth of gangs in Ecuador took hold gradually, in poor areas, and their presence and control boomed during the last two years.

Customers who have to shop at the Plaza de Carlos III, in the only store in the shopping center that sells in Cuban pesos, are in luck.

The slowdown stems from the crucial element of: water, whose scarcity means fewer commercial vessels can cross from one ocean to the other.