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Violence Against Women Spares No Country on All Continents

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.

New challenges in visiting Cuba with its deteriorated infrastructure and energy outages compounded by the recent natural disasters.

“In the end we obtained four buckets, two for my husband and two for me,” a neighbor told ’14ymedio’.

The province of Santiago de Cuba is approaching zero energy generation and receives one-tenth of what it needs.