Displeasure has taken over different neighborhoods in the capital. Mackerel, which had been missing from the ration booklet for a long time, has made a comeback, but at a non-subsidized price.
Read MoreThe citizens’ awakening that began in Nicaragua in April 2018 generated an expectation for change in the way we do politics. The phenomenon of the self-organized, and the use of technology and social media to share opinions and coordinate, together with the recuperation of public spaces, was a breath of fresh air to the depressed political lives of all Nicaraguans.
Read MoreBeing a frequent visitor to the Dominican Republic, where I occasionally have enjoyed the high standard, security and excellent service of its resorts, I became puzzled by recent, quiet excessive media reactions to statistically insignificant cases of deaths in these resorts.
Read MoreOne of the issues generating the widest range of conflicting opinions among Nicaraguans on all levels is the holding of early elections while Ortega remains in power.
Read MoreThis seemingly indestructible bureaucracy, which is the bane of Cuban society, is becoming stronger in the provinces where a government official, sitting at a desk in a second-class office, is called to dampen the existence of Cuban people’s papers or procedures in their hands.
Read MoreThe outrages recently committed in the Catholic churches in Leon and Managua against Nicaraguans exercising their basic citizens’ rights, give us a good measure of Ortega’s plans for the immediate future. His hordes, who apparently enjoyed full impunity, had no respect for the cathedrals in either city.
Read MorePlease don’t confuse democratic socialism with the chaos in Venezuela, Cuba’s totalitarian government and the USSR’s history. Anyone who does this runs the risk of being labeled a hooligan or a fool.
Read MoreThe Cuban system is entering a renewed Special Period crisis, at a dizzying rate. While the former never really ended, the current worsening of this calamity, after a more relaxed time with fewer shortages, makes us see it in a different light.
Read MoreWhy am I mentioning what I learned at school? Well, because I’ve been thinking about the laws that shape a country’s economic development and that, whether we like them or not, they are followed to a T here in Cuba, in China or Bulgaria.
Read More“A new Special Period is on the horizon” is the word on the street. People are afraid because in spite of current shortages and how hard it is just to get by, many people remember that that was a particularly dark time in modern day Cuban history.
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