Throughout these stormy months, the Civic Alliance is the organization that led the negotiations with the regime, having nothing less than the present and the future of the entire country on the table…
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She wakes up early like she does every day, or rather she wakes up at the crack of dawn. Her biological clock is her main alarm clock every day. She washes and makes the bed in no time at all.
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Cuba’s reality for the past 60 years has been marked by the administrative control of the economy, which prominently includes price controls, a decisive aspect of centrally planned economies.
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Little by little people who once supported the Sandinista government headed by Daniel Ortega have become aware of the ex-guerrilla’s transformation from liberator to oppressor as the country has come full circle over the last 40 years.
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I don’t know how much importance can be given to the refusal by Ortega-Murillo to continue with the dialogue. I think that at the international level the announcement will act like a boomerang that will fall on them.
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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…
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Anyone 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…
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After 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.
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Cuba 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.
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July 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.
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