Today is the Global Climate Strike, inspired by 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg. As people took to the streets in Africa, Asia, Europe and Australia, we host a roundtable discussion with youth activists organizing marches in the United States — in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Minneapolis — ahead of next week’s U.N. Climate Action Summit.
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Nicaraguan singer-songwriter Luis Enrique Mejia Godoy has given over 35 concerts in the United States, Canada and Central America since he was forced to seek exile in Costa Rica over a year ago. It’s his second period in exile, as once again he found himself needing to leave his country due to the brutal repression of another dictatorship.
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In widely shared public testimony that has been live-streamed to tens of thousands of people, survivors and members of Jammeh’s death squad who killed migrants, journalists and civilians during the president’s reign are telling their stories for the world to hear. One such survivor is Fatou “Toufah” Jallow, who says the former president raped her in 2015.
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Pancho, as he’s still known, was one of the members of the music group “Pancasan”, author of popular songs of the day such as “La Hora Cero” [Zero Hour], “Apuntes del Tio Sam” [Notes on Uncle Sam], and “Maria Rural”. Forty years later, he’s gone back to writing and composing, in the face of the clamor of a new generation that seeks the end of another dictatorship.
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In her first extended broadcast interview in the United States, we spend an hour with Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist who has inspired millions across the globe.
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Many survivors of the Category 5 storm are now seeking refuge in the United States. At least 4,000 hurricane survivors have traveled to the U.S. since the hurricane hit, but many more are facing a struggle with paperwork and mounting confusion about what’s necessary to gain entry.
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Migration isn’t a new phenomenon in Cuba. Improving one’s economic and social conditions has an unpredictable cost sometimes. Marelis Galves Quesada (31 years old) was born in the province of Guantanamo. She has been living in the Bahia campo neighborhood in the Habana del Este municipality for six years now.
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Hurricane Dorian hit the Bahamas as a Category 5 storm over the weekend, lingering for days and leaving nearly unimaginable destruction in its path. The airport on Grand Bahama Island has been completely decimated, and entire neighborhoods have been razed. Hundreds, if not thousands, remain missing.
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Contrary to the skepticism generated by the Ortega regime’s refusal to accept the newly formed high-level OAS diplomatic commission, which must seek a political solution within 75 days, political scientist Manuel Orozco visualizes important changes in the international and national environment, which could break the impasse of the political crisis.
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Irreverent, dissident, opposition political posters are, with difficulty, blooming in the Cuba we live in and where repression is growing every day. Yasser Castellanos is one of its gardeners, Havana Times one of his few gardens out there where it can grow. (10 photos)
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