Nicaragua Enters a Twilight Zone after First Coronavirus Fatality
The country demands transparency, an end to censorship and secrecy, and urgent preventive measures to avoid the spread of the virus.
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Opinion
The Future has Quickly Arrived
Thinking of Italy, with deep angst. All of the social and economic structures that existed before covid-19 are faltering.
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Nicaragua: University Autonomy in Times of Coronavirus
How is it that a center of thought, with the country’s chief medical school, hasn’t been able to protect its students, staff and administrative employees?
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A COVID-19 Quarantine Diary from Havana
Over the course of the past week surrealism has spread almost as quickly as the COVID-19 virus. At least in Havana…
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Cuba’s Etecsa Telecomunications Co. Should be Helping
When will Cuba’s monopoly telecomunications company, ETECSA, lower its exhorbitant Internet rates to help Cuban families in these times of crisis?
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Coronavirus in Cuba, Social Symptoms
Many people believe that the government should have closed the border as soon as the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic.
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Cuba in a Virtual State of Emergency
It cannot be interpreted any other way. President Miguel Diaz Canel said, “the coronavirus is coming at us.” We must halt the extension of the virus.
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Zero Hour: Our Region in the Face of the Pandemic
It is true that history recounts the devastating impact of past pandemics, but none of them broke out in such a populated world…
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The Ortega-Murillo Regime Is the Virus
Nicaraguan history has taught us there are external factors outside the government’s will, that may affect it if they fail to take the required measures…
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“Be Like Ortega,” The Viral Message in Nicaragua for Covid-19
“Be like Ortega,” referring to Nicaragua’s president who hasn’t shown his face in public since the coronavirus went from an epidemic to a pandemic.
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