Opinion Archives - Havana Times

Why Did the Cuban Regime Need to Bury Alejandro Gil?

I don’t write from an absolute truth, but from the moral obligation to think aloud. The case of Alejandro Gil is not a simple legal matter…

Since Hugo Chavez inaugurated the era of subsidized oil and ideological embraces, Venezuela has been the external lifeline of Castroism.

“Sunday’s vote in Havana’s fifteen municipalities disproves the claim that our president never hits the mark.”

He did not stay and risk arrest out of naïveté. He stayed because he believes Venezuelans deserve more than resignation.

“This was the first time I’ve heard people in Cuba openly criticizing the government in front of me, a foreigner”

Between exile and persecution, Nicaraguan writers and journalists struggle to make their voices heard inside and outside the country.

Chile’s fertility rate has fallen to 1.03 children per woman, the lowest in Latin America and one of the lowest in the world.

In short, for US President Donald Trump, Juan Orlando Hernandez “may be an SOB… but he’s one of ours.”

Honduras’ new president could add another Central American country to the growing influence of the Bukele model.

Today, with a tenuous cease-fire, it may be tempting for the party to memory hole what has happened in Gaza.