Opinion

Nicaragua: The Mafia in Action

In recent days, the Nicaraguan newspaper La Prensa published a report that neatly portrays how the members of the governing clique operate in sacking our public funds and – through the use and abuse of political power – in amassing enormous fortunes.

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Diaz Canel and the Housing Deficit in Cuba

Housing in Cuba has been deficient for decades. The revolution has never been able to meet the growing demand of the population. The current president Miguel Diaz Canel wants to give the image of progress in this sense, but there’s such a long way to go.

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A New Way of Making Politics in Nicaragua

The 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.

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Ortega’s Coup d’etat in Nicaragua

The 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.

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