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What’s at Stake in Sunday’s Elections in Bolivia

Commentary by Daniel Zovatto on: What’s at Stake in Sunday’s Elections in Bolivia. Most of latest polls agree a second round is probable.

Cuba’s Command & Control Model

Very few people know that everything people see in Cuba first passes through the Communist Party’s Ideological Department’s filter.

Invitation: Encounter with Margaret Randall & Gioconda Belli

Here’s a personal invitation from Randall and flyers about both the discussion on her archives and memoirs and the public conversation with Gioconda Belli.

Mirror Images of Exile

In all repressive dictatorships, some rebels are imprisoned, others assassinated, and many others must begin the journey into exile.

New SOS for Nicaraguans

This coming week is extremely dangerous for Nicaraguan civil society and independent media. That’s why we send out a New SOS for Nicaraguans.

Cuba with Dialogue Not Insults, Is it possible?

When Critical Marxism classes were changed to Dogmatic Marxism, after 1976, dialogue was eliminated as a form of verbal interaction.

Emergency in Nicaragua for Indigenous Rights and Nature

Today’s FSLN is destroying the Indigenous and Kriol territories with violence, fire, and roads to benefit ranching and mining interests.

Cuba: 1278 Elderly for every 1000 Children!

For every 1278 elderly, there are 1000 children. Cuba is aging at a dizzying pace. The government is well aware of it.

The Lebanese Disaster

Before a Civil War engulfed the country from 1975 to 1990 Lebanon was called the Switzerland of the East. Today we have the Lebanese disaster.

Nicaragua Adopts the Cuban-Venezuelan Model

The rushed laws are based on the regime’s urgency to adapt the Cuban and Venezuelan “model” of repressive authoritarianism to Nicaragua.