Venezuelan 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.
Read MoreStelios Kouloglou, the Greek deputy from the Radical Leftist Coalition (Syriza) of the European Parliament, declared that Daniel Ortega’s government in Nicaragua could not be considered socialist, because it “doesn’t have any ideological framework”.
Read MoreFormer Supreme Court judge Rafael Solis spoke for 54 minutes before the cameras of the weekly television news show Esta Semana, giving the reasons behind his political rupture with the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
Read MoreFinding value in something that has passed its expiry date and has no more wear and tear is part of the recycling process in Cuba. There are different mechanisms to ensure this: raw material collectors are one of them. Ernesto Rodriguez de la O (67 years old) forms part of this broad framework.
Read MoreBorn in the ‘60s, a rocker and fan, Yram Marreo introduces himself in a comical way: “I-I-I am a stutterer who was born in Santa Clara”… but I met him a few months ago in Trinidad, testing out a light set next to an outdoor charcoal furnace.* He moved to this city a few years ago with his wife, when he was sure that photography was his life.
Read MoreIn an interview with journalist Carlos Fernando Chamorro, on the television program “Esta Semana”, Dora Maria Tellez argued that the resignation of Solis from the State-FSLN Party controlled by the presidential couple is a political earthquake.
Read MoreRene Fernandez (76 years old) opened up his cafe in the ‘90s, when some independent labor was authorized. He is one of the people who have stayed in the private sector, in spite of its any ups and downs. He considers himself a loyal supporter of the Revolution who tries to adjust to the times.
Read MoreEdgard Parrales was a priest and is a lawyer. He is 76 years old and knows Rosario Murillo and Daniel Ortega well. In the eighties, he was a Sandinista Government Ambassador to the OAS and also held other public posts with the same government.
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