Opinion

Nicaragua: Is It Wrong to Look Back?

I recently reread a story that shows how the current tragedy in Nicaragua has been brewing for many years. The news refers to the repression unleashed against farmers opposed to the infamous Canal Law 840, which for them, and in the light of any minimal intelligence, is just the legal veil with which the regime sought to disguise the plundering of the country’s natural resources and betray its much-vaunted nationalism.

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Apologies that Don’t Exist in Cuba

They hadn’t been given anything. Floorboard on top of floorboard, brick upon brick, Esteban and his family built that house in Montequin, Pinar del Rio. Or better yet, hurdles were placed in their way and whatever could be taken from them was taken, because they had declared that they were Jehovah Witnesses in 1959, and (as we know) in the frenzied and beautiful early years of the bearded Revolution, that was like calling yourself a criminal, social scourge, scoundrel.

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Cuba: Diaz Canel’s Unfortunate Tweets

The warning that children shouldn’t play with dangerous objects should be whispered into President Diaz-Canel’s ear because of how he’s been using Twitter. He frequently makes mistakes, like when he wrote, in true biblical style, that “man does not live by bread alone” when Cuba was in the middle of a bread shortage.

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Gioconda Belli: The New Year Arrives for Nicaragua

On January 1st, time gives us 365 days in blank. How will those 8,760 hours be filled in this homeland besieged by the storm of a people blowing winds of change against the closed gate of stubbornness and cruelty of its rulers? What have they gained in these months? Their victories are pyrrhic, deceitful, fragile victories.

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Our Leaders in Cuba: Politicians or Alchemists?

To try and make the new president Miguel Diaz Canel “popular”, they have even planned several trips to the provinces, with contacts with the locals and TV cameras focused on him, giving his duties a great deal of coverage, as a president who takes action with new energy. They are selling us an image, that’s it.

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