The political prisoner Kenia Maria Gutierrez Gomez, 36, only had to obey a few guards to obtain the release to house arrest offered by the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo. However, this Chinandega woman refused and chose to remain imprisoned in the La Esperanza women’s prison in Tipitapa.
Read MorePoor customer service in Havana’s services, trade and food establishments has become an everyday experience. Juana Gonzalez, the owner of a cafe that sells pizzas, spaghetti and creole food, in the Cerro neighborhood, talks to us a little bit about this issue.
Read MoreThe Nicaraguan “civic insurrection” has spawned hundreds of political prisoners and this is the welcome message they get when entering prison: “They told us that if Nicaraguans rise up civically again, they will kill all of us without even thinking about it.”
Read MoreManuela Grau and Alfredo Gibert Flores make up the group “Amig@s (amigaos) por el Cuento”. They visited Cuba for the International “Cuenta Habana” Storytelling Festival”. They performed at different venues across the capital and in another province in Cuba.
Read More“I was 17 years old when I arrived in Havana,” Juan Carlos Valbuena tells me as we walk down 7th Avenue and look for a cafe that shelters us from the hustle and bustle of Bolivar Square in Bogota. He was one of the young Colombians who studied Medicine in Cuba.
Read MoreWhile the second attempt at a national dialogue to reach a peaceful solution to the crisis in Nicaragua stagnates again, the Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy and the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega try to “raise the stakes” with their conditions for the process.
Read MoreCartoonist Pedro Molina reported being the victim of direct threats from fanatics of the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, something that dozens of independent journalists in Nicaragua have also denounced. He assures that they will not shut him up and that the commitment he has, together with his colleagues who work from the underground or in exile, is growing every day.
Read MoreIn Havana, a densely populated city, finding a public restroom is an odyssey. There aren’t enough for the constant stream of people who are either wandering about, going to or coming home from work. I met Rita Carmona Solis, 54, one day that she was desperately looking a place to empty her bladder.
Read MoreHernaldo Zuniga knows every detail of the horror that has torn Nicaragua apart since April 2018 and knows that during demonstrations against the dictatorship thousands chanted in the streets of Managua, “They’re going… they’re going to hell forever,” it’s his most political composition, that now is seen as prophetic.
Read MoreThe Nicaraguan students have a single representative, sitting at the negotiating table to continue the National Dialogue between the Government of Daniel Ortega and the Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy. However, they have very clear demands before the dictatorship: the release of political prisoners, democratization and justice, as they stated during the protests that began in April.
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