Under the expressed orders of Daniel Ortega, the Nicaraguan Police used officers with experience in criminal investigation to “make a file” on the leaders of the students’ protests, peaceful demonstrations and barricades/roadblocks in the country. With that information the order was to detain them in their homes or directly “eliminate them,” says a former Police lieutenant.
Read MoreA documentary, “La Arrancada” (On the starting line) about a Cuban family facing an uncertain future has its world premiere tonight Feb. 12 at the Berlin International Film Festival, one of the world’s most prestigious cinema events.
Read MoreCuba’s housing situation is a thorn in the flesh for many Cubans. Magda Espinosa, 74, and a resident in Central Havana tells us about the unease a sign that reads “Homes being constructed for soldiers” causes her. It hangs above a house in ruins on Animas Street.
Read MoreI am a Portuguese socialist and I am very proud of that. What I have seen in Nicaragua has nothing to do with socialism. What I saw were violations of human rights, violations to the rule of law, violations of the most basic democratic procedures.
Read MoreThere are two faces often in the US news these days, Donald Trump and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Trump has been on the front pages daily for the last three years, shooting from the hip. Ocasio-Cortez, has just proposed a sweeping “Green New Deal” for the US that is shaking up the status quo politicians in her own party, as well as in the country’s corporate world.
Read MoreIn recent years Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries have experienced escalated climate change impacts from hurricanes, tropical storms and other weather-related events thanks to global warming of 1.0 ° Celsius (C) above pre-industrial levels. And it has had adverse effects on particularly vulnerable countries and communities.
Read MoreThe package of fiscal and Social Security reforms imposed by the Nicaraguan Government, hoping to raise tax collection, faces a unanimous rejection by business chambers: “It means a coup d’état to the economy, it will cause more unemployment and capital flight,” summarized the President of the Superior Council of Private Enterprise (Cosep), Jose Adan Aguerri.
Read MoreVenezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has reached out to Pope Francis, asking for his help to bring about a peaceful solution to the crisis in Venezuela. Maduro is facing increasing international pressure to resign from office two weeks after opposition leader Juan Guaido declared himself to be Venezuela’s interim president and has since been recognized by dozens of nations.
Read MoreEach day that passes without the country reaching a political agreement, the economy becomes more depressed. Each dollar that leaves the banks, each million dollars not invested, each loan that is not approved, and each job that is lost, confirm that without a political solution the nation will plunge in an economic debacle.
Read MoreAbu Duyanah is a Cuban writer, poet, literary critic and journalist, converted to Islam in 2010. He is the president of the Cuban Association for the Diffusion of Islam, made up of groups on the island which are trying to conserve the most orthodox teachings of Islam, something that has resulted in abuse and persecution by the Cuban government’s religious authorities and officials.
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