Fidel Castro should apparently be given credit for introduction of better genetic material and artificial insemination into Cuban agriculture although any evidence of improvement in Cuban cattle is somewhat short.
Read MoreIn his most recent speech, Daniel Ortega ranted against his interlocutors of the Civic Alliance, at the so-called “negotiating table.” He called them “human miseries.” A clear indicative of his eagerness for “peace and reconciliation.”
Read MoreThis time we arrived a little late to the Good Friday family visit at the El Modelo Prison. My sisters, sister-in-law and brother were already sitting at a table, encircling our brother Ricardo Baltodano, his large body clothed in the blue uniform of the prisoners.
Read MoreOne point few people in Nicaragua – from the government to the opposition – disagree on, is who is the country’s most powerful person. There’s little doubt that First Lady/VP Rosario Murillo calls most of the shots for the entire regime.
Read MoreOne of the most noteworthy news items of the last few days has been the United States government’s imposition of sanction on the presidential couple’s son and on the Ortega family’s bank, known as Bancorp (Banco Corporativo, or Corporate Bank).
Read MoreThere are many people outside of Cuba rejoicing at the news that US president Donald Trump will lift the waiver on Title III of the Helms-Burton Act, place travel restrictions on US citizens for non-family related reasons and reduce remittances to the island.
Read MoreThis is how April 2018 began: a fire, young people raising their voices and the repressive response of the Ortega government to stop any demonstration that would alter its “normality.”
Read MoreThe image of euphoric protestors celebrating the fall of the first “Chayopalo”, one of the omnipresent metal “trees of life” imposed by Rosario Murillo, on the third day of the civic protest, revived in my memory the same sense of liberation that I lived some 40 years ago when the statue of Somoza García on a horse came crashing down.
Read MoreOne night, my parents seemed worried. “What will we do if everything is Russian here? Everything, even the wood on this cot.” This was at the onset of what would be called the “Special Period”.
Read MoreDuring last April’s insurrection, the old detention and torture center was back in business. An FSLN party flag overlooks El Chipote, stained with the blood of a diversity of dissidents of different caliber: journalists, press directors, students, workers and farmers.
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