This Friday we woke up with the sad news of the closing of the El Nuevo Diario daily newspaper’s operations. The Ortega-Murillo dictatorship has achieved its objective: curtail fundamental rights and public liberties.
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We’ll be a little constricted. You coming? Of course. The simplicity, humility and austerity of our leaders is more than known. An austerity that they have even instilled in their children and grandchildren.
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This September, it has been a year since the imposition of a de facto state of emergency in Nicaragua, which has effectively suspended constitutional rights, without the National Assembly having decreed a state of emergency by law.
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Civic struggles are eroding the power of authoritarian and unpopular regimes. From Hong Kong to Sudan, from Algeria to Moscow, from Puerto Rico to Nicaragua, all have in common the predominance of mobilizations of the population demanding political change.
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People in positions of high responsibility tend to be subject to high levels of stress, which is known to cause anxiety attacks, which in turn can induce binge eating of either junk or gourmet food.
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Jessica doesn’t want to disclose her real name or show her photo, she won’t say what the name of the school was or where it was, she doesn’t even want to write because “I don’t like that”; but one thing she knows for sure is that her story is very common among teenage girls that any of them would identify with it.
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Guayaba jam. That’s what I was thinking about when I listened to the Cuban president explain the new temporary situation. About the large transparent glass jar with a wide rim, recently-brought from the bodega rations store on the corner and my mother putting it on the table of my childhood, for breakfast, to spread on bread, when I was 7 years old.
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The mutually dependent course of Daniel Ortega, Raul Castro and Nicolas Maduro.
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The debate took place a few days ago on a television program, and although it was brief, it reveals the dissatisfactions that exist among specialists regarding the performance of Cuban baseball players in the international events of recent years.
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“Is this discount for real? 10 cents, really?” I asked an employee at a foreign currency store (TRD) in the Supermarket in the Hermanos Cruz neighborhood, Pinar del Rio. In front of me? One-liter bottles of “Chocolate milk with coffee. Concentrated beverage,” produced by Lacteos Pradera.
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