Interviews Archives - Havana Times

Samcam’s Murder in Costa Rica ‘Shocking for the Impunity’

Former Costa Rican President: ‘This is unprecedented, and that’s why it’s alarming. I hope it gets the government’s attention.’

At least the president admitted to missteps in managing the economy—but according to him, those happened due to external pressures.

“We never take away hope. I mean, that’s our whole thing. If you don’t have it, then what are we doing this for?”

A US-Mexico cross-border gathering evokes a creative world of “gritty hope” in the face of new wall construction.

Demonstrations are planned in hundreds of cities across the USA on Saturday to protest against the actions of the Trump administration.

“Its a strategy of international isolation that reinforces internal control, which intensified after the crackdown on 2018 protests.”

International organizations have raised alarms over what they describe as the systematic use of the justice system to silence critics.

“We deem the risk of silence and the risk of inaction to be so much more deadly than this mission,” says Greta Thunberg.

Journalist Alma Guillermoprieto believes that there was “some process of mental degeneration” behind the authoritarian drift in Nicaragua.

Columbia University student and Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi recounts the traumatic experience of his arrest and incarceration.