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Osvel Barzagas: A Free Cuban in Mexico’s Zocalo

I met Osvel, a native of Cuba’s Isle of Youth, by chance, while I was heading to take the Metro. We connected.

We go to Deir al-Balah in the Gaza Strip to get an update from Palestinian journalist Shrouq Aila, the head of Ain Media.

Miguel Coyula and Lynn Cruz talk about their ‘Chronicles of the Absurd’, a film that won awards abroad and was censored in Cuba.

Niuvis is a retired pastor of the Baptist Church of Fraternity in Holguín. She continues to be a strong feminist Christian activist.

Today, purchasing medicine is one of the biggest challenges faced by the elderly in Cuba. It’s heartbreaking to see them wait for hours…

Briceño and his family were expelled from their home in San Rafael del Sur without the right to take anything, & their properties were seized.

The first routine of Rolando Godínez’s day is to taste the coffee he will sell and give it his approval. Then he leaves home with his load.

“Apart from absolute monarchies, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a constitution that concentrates so much power in the hands of the executive.”

We call him the family doctor because when we have digestive issues, he’s the one kind enough to “massage” our legs, and we regain our health

“For there to be real change, there must be democracy and free elections, something hat has not happened in sixty-five years.”