I’m writing in the name of many people who are grateful for Gioconda Belli’s article “The struggle that lies before us” that was published in Havana Times on November 5th: It’s a courageous post that touches a sore point in this issue of unity that concerns many of us.
Read More“I like the debate in the corridors more, where people really say what they are thinking,” Evarista says before the meeting begins, which is being held at the home of Panfilo, the protagonist of the TV show “Vivir del Cuento” (Living by one’s wits) on the program broadcast on Monday, November 5th.
Read MorePersonally-speaking, I oppose the blockade out of principle rather than pragmatism. I feel the same way democratic Governments do who know that basic human rights are being violated which stand in the way of freedom and any trace of democracy, but can’t approve of an embargo that borders on the concept of blockade because of its extraterritorial nature.
Read MoreAmong the US allies who voted in the UN against the blockade, are the 21 countries that in the OAS condemned the Ortega dictatorship and supported our people. The votes in favor of Cuba, was because the blockade violates international law and the votes against the Ortega dictatorship because it violates the human rights of the Nicaraguan people.
Read MoreI continue to fight forgetting our past, like the character Gertrudis in the book The Bleeding Wound and defying those who prefer not to remember and if they don’t then it never happened, here is another story: the story of a guajira woman who grew up among sugar cane.
Read MoreWhat does the April Movement in Nicaragua and the events it set off resemble? It resembles the 1968 Movement in Mexico and its culmination in the Tlatelolco massacre. Two social movements, two massacres: Mexico 1968, Nicaragua 2018. There are coincidences in what the university students were demanding and how they did things…
Read MoreThis situation could be defined much more easily if we had the humility to simply face the fact that a forceful civic struggle like the one carried out over these past 6 months in Nicaragua must now reconsider how best to confront a ferocious repression.
Read MoreThis article is based on an empirical analysis, rather than a strictly scientific one, about what will happen in Cuba’s upcoming constitutional referendum. I believe that the constitutional project being discussed today will be approved, most likely without any significant changes to the original draft presented by the constitutional committee who were responsible for writing it.
Read MoreOrtega has been defeated. It’s a strategic defeat, one that’s clearly evident. But it’s a defeat that’s fundamentally occurring in the field of foreign diplomacy, due to Ortega’s own mistakes. However, while his continued rule may be unviable, there’s no national opponent that can claim the victory over the dictatorship.
Read MoreThis year’s vote was like the others every year for the past 27 years, but doesn’t have any real effect. However, the Cuban government continues to raise the subject annualy in front of the UN General Assembly, looking for the symbolic effect this might have in the international arena and in legitimizing the regime within Cuba.
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