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.
Read MoreMigration 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.
Read MoreHurricane 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.
Read MoreContrary 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.
Read MoreIrreverent, 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)
Read MoreIn this interview Bishop Juan Abelardo Mata denounces the selective killings in the countryside and the persecution against the Church in Nicaragua. He also revealed why the bishops had decided not to participate in the second effort to have a national dialogue.
Read MoreFar-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has worked to deregulate and open up the Amazon for agribusiness, logging and mining since he came into office in January, and indigenous peoples in the country say they are on the frontlines of the destruction.
Read MoreQuestions are swirling over a mysterious nuclear accident in northern Russia on August 8. Seven people, including five nuclear scientists, died in an explosion, which caused a radiation spike in the surrounding area — and possibly as far as Scandinavia.
Read MoreFollowing a mysterious nuclear accident in Russia that left seven dead, we look back at the 1986 nuclear disaster in Chernobyl. It sent a cloud of radioactive fallout into Russia, Belarus and over a large portion of Europe, but the death toll from Chernobyl remains unknown.
Read MoreThe Organization of American States (OAS) has taken almost two months to move towards the formation of a high-level diplomatic commission to address the crisis of Nicaragua. Once formed “It would be a serious mistake,” of the Ortega government not to receive this delegation, warns Carlos Tunnermann, Coordinator of the Civic Alliance.
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