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Faces of Cuba’s Political Prisoners: Jessica Torres Calvo

The 29-year-old visual, graffiti and tattoo artist and mother of a 6-year-old is serving a ten-year prison sentence for sedition.

Protecting people and places is also of key importance in Guterres’ address, as he recommended ramping up protections from climate chaos.

The artists were jailed in Esteli, Nicaragua 194 days ago for painting a mural to honor Sheynnis Palacios, after she was crowned Miss Universe

With 95.2% of the votes tallied Claudia Sheinbaum has 59.4%, Xochitl Galvez 27.9% and Jorge Alvarez 10.4%. Voter turnout was 60.9%.

Some 600,000 Cubans were intercepted at the southern US border since October 2021, more than any other mass exodus in Cuba’s history.

“U-Turn” transactions are fund transfers related to Cuba or any other sanctioned country conducted between two non-US banks.

Cuban officialdom does not mention several obvious problems with midnight markets: blackouts, lack of products and corruption in the food sector.

All polls favor the governing party candidate Claudia Sheinbaum, but the opposition candidate Xochitl Galvez claims there is a “hidden vote.”

Caution among those who benefit from Biden’s measures on the Island, given the uncertainty about them becoming reality.

Six years after the murder of their sons, three relatives share what it’s like to live with grief without being able to return to Nicaragua.