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Matt the Traveler & Diaz-Canel: Postcards from Fraggle Rock

While millions of Cubans cope with constant blackouts and the lack of water, our designated president squanders resources on municipal tours.

It’s a delicate balance, almost an art form: preserving the mother tongue without holding back immersion in the new language.

Murillo knows many are waiting with a dagger in their mouth, intent on any opening that could arise with Daniel Ortega’s death.

As the temperature rises, many Cuban families feel they have nothing left to lose because they have hit rock bottom.

I was in the Seattle immigration court accompanying a young mother from a South American country applying for asylum to a routine hearing.

He’s had the audacity to go out and walk the streets of Cuba to get a sense of how people feel about the harsh reality they are living.

The phrases “We shall overcome,” “Building socialism,” “Yes we can,” have become mantras in official discourse…

These days, among the people you pass on the street, it’s inevitable to make some reference to the intensity of the temperatures.

Jose Marti is someone whom most people born in Cuba feel respect for. He died under fire from Spanish colonial troops on May 19, 1895.

“Pepe” Mujica was waiting for us in the neglected garden of his chacra [farm] on the outskirts of Montevideo.