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Cuba: Diaz-Canel’s Speech on His Ex-Friend Alejandro Gil

The president used quotes from Fidel Castro to denigrate the person who was his right-hand man in the government.

Forcing Maduro’s resignation should not be a Trump adventure, but part of an international effort to respect the 2024 results.

For those of us who aspire to greater justice and equality in the country, this result is a devastating blow.

Cuban authorities have had to introduce the hated dollar into the official vocabulary, according to them, on a temporary basis.

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.