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NO Means NO, Even If He Loves You

The phrase has gone viral on the Internet and it sheds light on an everyday reality: it is hard for many people to understand when somebody does NOT want to have sex with them.

Nicaragua After Ortega, Will “Anything” Be Better?

En la lucha contra el somocismo se repetía profusamente la frase “después de Somoza cualquier cosa”. Esa frase encerraba la creencia, o la ilusión, de que lo peor era el somocismo.

Dreaming in Cuba’s Eternal Summer

A Cuban summer night’s dream: “Starting next Monday, we will begin to distribute for all children from 0 to 14 years, as well as to the elderly over 65, a liter of milk daily, and 15 cans of condensed milk per month; as well as 3 pounds of beef and 3 lbs. of pure coffee per consumer…”

Let’s Improve School Lunches in Cuba

The lunch I speak of came to mind when I heard Cuba’s Minister of Education say that starting September 2nd more than 1.7 million students would be attending classes this year. I thought of those students’ lunches and how much it would cost to feed them.

Triumph of the Right is Changing the World Order

The crisis of regional and multilateral institutions goes hand in hand with the international rise of right-wing populism. In the US, the UK, Russia, Italy, Poland, Hungary, Turkey, the Philippines and Brazil, we are experiencing the rise of right-wing populist politicians who throw headline-grabbing barbs at global compromises and the negotiating processes of supranational institutions such as the UN.

Let the World’s Future Not Turn into Ashes

With the record rate blaze in the Amazon that struck Indigenous communities, the world is confronted by a humanitarian crisis in the midst of an ever-worsening political-economic condition.

The Unity Game and the Opposition in Nicaragua

Unity is precisely the idea of being able to move together towards an objective, regardless of the differences. It is obvious that we have hundreds of political, social and economic problems that we need to solve, but as long as we do not solve the biggest problem we currently have, which is to live under a dictatorship that violates all human rights, including the right to life, we can never solve the rest.

Nicaragua and an International Commission against Impunity

When the political change arrives, after free elections, the new democratic government won’t only have to disarm and dismantle the paramilitary and oversee a total change in the National Police, but they will also have to change the Attorney General’s office from the ground up.

A Child’s Sexual Awakening and Abuse in Cuba

A person’s sexual awakening should be a natural thing. It happens for everybody in their own time, according to their own interests and nobody should ever experience it at somebody else’s pace.

German Diplomacy on Nicaragua: Not in My Name!

As someone who participated in the solidarity movement with Nicaragua from its beginning in the 80s and was instrumental in setting up sister city arrangements between German and Nicaraguan cities, I find it the German diplomatic corps’ current support of the Ortega regime unbearable.