Thoughts about Swinging in Cuba
In Cuba, sexuality has always been governed by the traditional variant. However, we haven’t escaped the swinging movement, which is currently threatening to become a mass movement.
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Opinion
Ecuador in Frontline to Address Climate Change
As the UN commemorates World Environment Day, UNDP would like to take this opportunity to commend Ecuador’s efforts to address climate change and its commitment to raising its climate ambition.
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About Fish, a Duck and Acts of War in Havana
In Havana’s Miramar neighborhood, the local population in the area known as La Puntilla, had been warned days ago by the municipal government and Communist party, that they would hear loud explosions and bursts of fire on Sunday, as they were going to simulate a landing here where the sea joins our not very mighty Almendares River.
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What is Daniel Ortega Afraid of?
The representative of the regime, without the least embarrassment, told delegates from countries of all continents, among other outrageous things, the following: “We have never repressed any protest or any peaceful demonstration.”
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Cuba: “Things are Tough(er)”
In reality, things have always been rough here. Ever since we are able to make sense of the world around us. However, let’s not get to jumping straight to the Special Period (don’t even think about it!), that dark time when those of us who founded El Estornudo opened up our eyes to the world.
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What’s Happening with Cuba’s Leather Production?
Even though the majority of Cubans think that Granma newspaper is just an alternative for toilet paper; and even though the credibility and reliability of its information is low because it focuses on providing justifications and not objective news, I must admit that I always try and read it.
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The Forced Displacement of Nicaraguans
Since the socio-political crisis broke out in Nicaragua, at least 62,000 Nicaraguan have fled the country, according to information from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) published in April. This article is about their rights when seeking refuge.
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A Cuban Filmmaker’s Book about Consciousness
A critical Cuban filmmaker and a US film student live a tragic love story in Cuba in the turbulent 1960s. Fausto Canel joined the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry, when it was founded.
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Women’s Lives are Worthless in Nicaragua
We’re worth nothing, because our killers aren’t only red and black, but also blue and white, orange, green, red. They wave different colors, but are always united by the sentiment that our lives belong to them.
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Nicaragua: Pressure Mounts on Ortega from Multiple Sides
In a week, the dictatorship of Ortega Murillo suffered four important political defeats that have imprinted a new dynamic on the country: although the impasse remains, the Blue and White Movement has clearly taken up the political initiative.
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