The leading online government publication Cubadebate recently published some fragments from a book about Che Guevara written by his widow Aleida March. These fragments included mention of the executions by firing squad in the early years of the Revolution, when Fidel Castro and his team took power.
Read MoreI believe that the massacre of 2018 and all the crimes that are being committed in Nicaragua come from the lie that has been lived since 1979, year in which we thought that we touched the sky with our hands, and in a blind ecstasy we allowed a gang not fit for power to accumulate it excessively.
Read MoreI have made it clear that I will vote NO in the February 24th referendum on more than one occasion. I am even very active on Facebook in debates about the viability of voting NO instead of NOT voting. The exchange with the radical opposition has been tough, just as it has been with sincere Communists.
Read MoreThe statements from high-level representatives of the current Mexican government announcing their willingness to serve as mediators in the Nicaraguan crisis, provoked a broad and serious debate, as well as concerns and some aggravation.
Read MoreChavez and then later Maduro both had a golden opportunity to unite every socio-economic sector in Venezuela, from the most pro-government to the most opposing, to really grow into a power like Bolivar had dreamed: a power of happiness and progress.
Read MoreI don’t see the solution to all our problems in voting NO, but it is an opportunity for us to practice something healthy and, therefore, necessary: reclaiming our responsibility in the country’s evolution and becoming aware that the Government isn’t who decides the Cuban people’s fate.
Read MoreIt’s worth remembering that Article 68, which if approved would have allowed same-sex marriage in Cuba, sparked the most debate in neighborhood meetings to discuss the draft Constitution before the final draft, to be voted on in a referendum on February 24, was approved by the National Assembly. It’s also worth pointing out the fact that it was written in mumbo jumbo.
Read MoreIn the future, in the new Nicaragua that we so long for, we need to unravel and clearly define the responsibilities of each person who has been an accomplice and perpetrator of the wave of repression, and who has helped to maintain this dictatorship. They need to be tried in court, if necessary, to stop them from regaining power and cynically laughing in our faces, again.
Read MoreFriends and acquaintances have been asking me: “Will you vote NO?”, as if it were a trivial question, because they already assume I will. Even the State Security agent who “deals with us” (without us asking for his attention), paid us a visit to remind us that they wouldn’t allow any kind of protest relating to this clumsy show of a constitutional referendum.
Read MoreDaniel Ortega and Robert Mugabe share a lot of similarities, but also some profound differences. History has now buried Mugabe, while Ortega continues clinging to power, squandering all his political capital and eroding his personal image.
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