The essence of the MeToo movement still hasn’t taken firm root in Cuba. The country prefers to remain tied up in its statistics and slogans. The numbers given for the number of women in the national workforce, at university, working in professions that were thought of as “male” in the past, and overall achievements, are real, there’s no doubt about that. However…
Read MoreAnyone who believes all the news we hear — information that is bandied about in waiting lines and discussed in chat rooms and elsewhere — might conclude that paradise is just around the corner. That fact is that we’re closer to hell than the kingdom of heaven…
Read MoreAfter more than a year since the explosion of the sociopolitical crisis in Nicaragua, now aggravated by the economic crisis, the head of the Army finally offered statements to the media.
Read MoreCuba is experiencing a gentrification process that not everyone will survive. Old Havana, with its restoration focused on tourism, is a prominent municipality in this regard.
Read MoreJuly 27, marked a year since we were fired from the “Oscar Danilo Rosales Arguello” Teaching Hospital in Leon, Nicaragua. Very early that day, Hospital Director Judith Lejarza, in the role of Angel of Death, gave the fateful news to the first group of doctors and hospital workers that they had been fired from Nicaragua’s public hospitals, for completely political reasons.
Read MoreDaniel Ortega’s regime confirmed Thursday that the President of the Republic does not govern in Nicaragua. Instead, he orders and commands, as the supreme chief of the National Police, who remains in power through a police state.
Read MoreIt’s beena year andfour months since the political crisis beganinmy country, andI can’t stopthinking about all the young people who’ve hadto leave Nicaragua, inorder to escape fromthe regime of Daniel Ortega andRosario Murillo.
Read MoreI stopped voting for the FSLN in2004. I was 20 years old. Whoever reads this can criticize me as much as they want for not having realized earlier the type of organization it was.
Read MoreOrtega announced the cancellation of the negotiating table. He closed it, for now. When he feels the need, to dig it up again, it will be with the same purpose: Distract, confuse and gain time.
Read MoreIt’s an old and effective strategy. We are seeing it repeated in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election in the United States. Donald Trump has already made successful use of it, and he hasn’t hesitated to use it again.
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