Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega today blamed the United States for the crisis his country has been facing since last April and reiterated that he will not abandon power or hold early elections as the opposition demands.
Read MoreErnest Carralero Burgos is one of those young Cubans who had to grow up without one or both of his parents because they left for many years to work on an international mission or because they emigrated looking for an alternative way to support their families.
Read MoreHe is 20 years old and he would love to finish his journalism degree in Argentina. Then, he would like to be a war correspondent. But not in his native Nicaragua, which he dreams of being “free and in peace”, safe from the unstoppable wave of violence that has been spilling its blood for over three months now.
Read MoreThe goal of the interview that comandante Daniel Ortega granted to “Fox News” was to “get the attention of president Donald Trump”, but Ortega didn’t succeed. This was the opinion of Alejandro Bendana, historian and specialist in International Law.
Read MoreHe won’t leave power because that “would worsen things.” His government has no relation whatsoever with the paramilitaries. There are no problems between the government and the church. No student has died in any church. And the country is in route towards ‘’normalization.” That’s the Nicaragua that comandante Ortega described in an interview with the Fox News.
Read MoreIn Cuba, there are supply and demand agro-markets, which differ from state-run markets because they always have produce, but prices are much higher. Here the law of “take it or leave it” is applied, and the sellers set the tune, some of which would rather see their produce go to rot than lower their prices.
Read MoreAfter six decades, Felipe Lazaro hasn’t stopped fighing against ruin and oblivion. He returns to his happy childhood in a Guines from yesteryear, the main town to the south of Havana, which finds itself in ruins today. His most recent book, “Invisibles triangulos de muerte” (2017), was recently published by Editorial Bethania.
Read MoreUva de Aragon is a renowned intellectual who lives in the US. She is the adopted daughter of Carlos Marquez Sterling, the President of the 1940 Constituent Assembly and leader of the non-violent opposition movement against Batista’s dictatorship.
Read MoreJacinto Suarez is one of the most influential men in Daniel Ortega’s FSLN party. He presides over the Foreign Relations Commission of the Nicaraguan Congress and he’s also the man in charge of the party’s international relations.
Read MoreLia Villares is a Cuban artist who many people only bespeak for her political impact on the island’s artistic world. She is a writer, filmmaker, and was the bass player in the punk band Porno para Ricardo.
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