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A Call for Tolerance in Cuba

This hateful and fearful propaganda seems to be taken from a dystopian world in the purest Orwellian style.

In Nicaragua, sectarian interests, power ambitions and the caudillo (strong man) spirit, inevitably lead to tragedies.

This was December… full of police officers, warlike vehicles, ninjas, assault rifles. They are stirring up darkness again.

Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol building on Jan. 6, disrupting the certification of Joe Biden’s election victory.

The sharp uptick in Covid-19 cases throughout Cuba in December led the government to backtrack on reopening

Our Sunday humor supplement Xel2 reflected the occurrences in its illustrations – sometimes in a humorous way, and others very seriously.

Dario Alejandro Aleman left Cuba for Mexico City six weeks ago. He wasn’t sure up to the last minute whether he would be allowed to leave.

With the Cuba’s economic failure in full view, Yoani Sanchez comments: “Without results, all it has left to show is its teeth…”

Hopefully this end of year will be the end of a cycle. May mistakes made in 2020 help us find understanding amid differences in 2021.

She danced to a rhythm only she could hear. When she first started dancing nearly forty years ago, she had no wings.