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Why Nicaragua Needs a Special Prosecutor’s Office

The murder of political prisoner, Eddy Montes Praslin, by a prison guard in the La Modelo prison last Thursday, should be the Ortega Murillo dictatorship’s last political crime.

How Repression Is Excercized in Today’s Cuba

With a history of decades of crisis, it’s the roughest sector in Cuban society (working-class mobs given a repressor card and the green light to take out their frustration and envy). Such is the State’s favorite to do its dirty work: repression at its roughest ?visible beatings, insults and humiliation.

Cuban Government Reacts to the Population’s Growing Civic Awareness

The Communist dream is to invent a “drug” to cure the “human disease” of freedom and democracy, or at least this is what their actions seem to tell us. If it wasn’t for this small detail, this problem, they would be able to govern forever and be the people’s Gods of Redemption.

Nicaragua/Women: They Kill Us Because They Hate Us

Women in Nicaragua are hated not only by their partners, their ex-partners, and their acquaintances, but also by the State. None of the past governments, much less that of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, have shown the least interest in preventing violence against women.

The Hour of Big Business, the Army and the FSLN

The stalemate in negotiations between the Civic Alliance and the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship, as a result of the intransigence of commander Daniel Ortega, threatens to liquidate the second attempt at the national dialogue.

Dynamite the Ortega System from Within

For an entire year, we’ve seen the iron determination of the Nicaraguan citizens to push non-violently for a profound democratic transition, and to banish the bloody dictatorship from power. We struggle to eradicate this system and leave no roots behind, so as to avoid having another form of authoritarianism later sprout anew…

Havana Amid Shrieks, Uneasiness and Hoarding

Running into crowds at stores and markets is becoming common in Cuba’s capital city. Desperate people hoard: eggs/ rice/ soap/ detergent/ toothpaste and some products that might seem absurd at a glance. It’s worth remembering that these people are my people…

Total Dehumanization? I Refuse to Accept It for Nicaragua

I also believe that when power originates from a tyrannical regime in crisis, it is particularly cruel in all of its machinery, from the top down and as Hannah Arendt says, it is more of a power/hate directed against the most vulnerable (the young, women and small farmers), as well as against dissidents.

Cuba, the Great Divide and Neutrality

It is easy to detect those who openly express in Havana Times either support for or opposition to the Castro communist dictatorship. They demonstrate the great divide between beliefs in freedom and repression.

Nicaragua: “Don’t Shoot the Civic Alliance!”

From various sides, well and ill-intentioned, they unleash attacks every day against the Civic Alliance and their performance in negotiations with the Ortega-Murillo regime.