I 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.
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.
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