Another unfortunate chapter in Cuba’s migration crisis is unfolding in southern Mexico, in the city of Tapachula, Chiapas. And, it is receiving quite a bit of media coverage too. With letters of safe passage being suspended a few days ago (permits that allowed free passage for a month in this country), approximately 5,000 Cuban migrants have accumulated on Mexican soil.
Read MoreTo retain his grip on state power, Ortega is deploying a strategy on multiple fronts. The negotiation table is just one of the arenas where Ortega plays and certainly not the only one. Therefore, if we hope to achieve freedom then we need to confront Ortega on all fronts.
Read MoreWe are the Alvaro Conrado April 19th Movement in Panama, born from the need to create a community of Nicaraguans united to serve as a support network and accompaniment to the thousands of Nicaraguan brothers and sisters who have been forced to emigrate and take refuge in the wake of the sociopolitical crisis In Nicaragua.
Read MoreThere cannot be any middle ground, negotiation, or ambiguity, to fully restore freedom of the press, expression, association and mobilization. The self-convoked movement has the right to protest civically and to march in the streets today and tomorrow, without asking the dictatorship for permission…
Read MoreMy boss at the State bar-restaurant was the manager: a stout man in moccasins with his own black Toyota Yaris, a really beautiful car, that he used to park every morning in one of the areas of my responsibility, once I had finished cleaning up. His wife was a pompous blond woman, who used to throw a juice box on the ground every morning before getting out of the car, and she would spend the whole day dithering about.
Read MoreThe US government has placed restrictions on B2 visas that were granted to Cubans to travel for tourism-related reasons, to visit relatives and shop, which are now only valid for three months (single entry) instead of five years (with multiple entries) like they used to be.
Read MoreIn March of 2019, at almost 80 years since the prison, torture, persecution and exile, and 59 years since the death of my father, now, under the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, the same painful ordeal have been experienced by thousands of victims of the injustices of power.
Read MoreAmnesty #53 is going to arrive proposing pardon and forgetting in the name of peace and reconciliation for both sides; I’ll pardon these terrorists who came to interrupt the paradise that my wife and I were building, but you must forgive me the acts of barbarity that I, my accomplices and my partners have committed.
Read MoreThe Mayari, Holguin ice factory is just one of many factories that have fallen into disrepair in this city of northeastern Cuba. The building has been in ruins for over two decades and different organizations that bought its production, as well as customers from the general population, are in need of ice.
Read MoreAs many know, during the ongoing Maduro crisis, both sides of the aisle attempted to dialogue with the purported goal of finding a peaceful solution. The premise, of course, was that the dialogue was the only acceptable alternative because otherwise Venezuela would spiral into more violence. Venezuela’s reality is very close to Nicaraguan reality.
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