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Active Citizens and Absent State in Nicaragua

Brazil and Nicaragua are the two Latin American countries that are still resisting the implementation of measures to prevent and control the spread of Covid-19.

The Basis of Everything

In one of the meetings with his ministers, Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel maintained that “the lemon was the base of everything”…

Is the Fight for Human Rights & Racial Justice Overriding the Coronavirus Risk?

The defiant stand against the police injustice has triggered the question: is the fight for human rights and racial justice overriding coronavirus threats?

Leadership Styles, Political Empathy and a Pandemic

Responses to the pandemic and their results seem to be explained by leadership style and a leader’s empathy skills in times of a global crisis.

My Questions to Sandinistas in Times of Pandemic

I mourn physical deaths, but also the deceit that has made them multiply. This virus does not differentiate between Sandinistas and non-Sandinistas.

Changes in Cuba’s Economic Policies, If Not Now, When?

Since 2016, we have witnessed with disbelief a phenomenon that highlights the great obstacles that hinder Cuban reform.

The Nicaraguan Approach: Defy Science with Ignorance at the Helm

The Ortega-Murillo model: scorn for science, lack of diagnostic testing, and the failed family-community model.

The Lessons Ortega Learned from the Eighties

Limit public expenditures, control the repressive apparatus and the justice system, all while increasing his family’s wealth

Sergio Ramírez: “In Nicaragua, the Virus Has Become an Ideological Issue”

According to the regime’s discourse there is no epidemic because Nicaragua’s borders are shielded, thanks to the official imagery, by divine protection.

Cuban Workers on Standby

I don’t mean to be so pessimistic, it’s just clear that the horizon isn’t looking too bright right now, and it might even be a ticking social bomb.