Zoilamerica Narvaez Murillo, the stepdaughter of President Daniel Ortega, whom in 1998 she accused of 19 years of abuse and rape, said today that the president clings to power “to feel he’s the leader and messiah” and that he intends to convert Nicaragua “into a jail.”
Read MoreA few days ago, on September 24th, the UN held a Peace Summit called the “Nelson Mandela Peace Summit” in honor of the centennial of his birth this year. Who doubts this wasn’t a fair tribute? Quite likely, not even his political adversaries, supporters of apartheid, did.
Read MoreEver since I graduated from the university, I dreamed about leaving the country. At least, that’s what I thought. I’d planned to apply for scholarships and leave for another country, because many people told me that my country was small and I needed to see the world.
Read MoreDuring his visit to New York, Mr. Diaz-Canel (Raul Castro’s puppet, according to many) was lavished with attention at a meeting with important figures of US culture at the sadly famous Dakota building.
Read MoreThe Cuban government, together with the Ministry of Culture, are about to bury this beautiful country’s incredible culture for the sake of holding absolute control over every art form that is created here. They are about to make us mediocre, they are about to throw us to the bottom of global culture’s list, which Cuban artists have been at the top of in one way or another.
Read MoreDiscrediting as a political weapon does not need any proof or reasoning. Just put a label, repeat it a thousand times and appeal to lower passions. Surely the immediacy, massiveness and low transparency of social networks contributes to a wider dissemination, but this phenomenon is as old as humanity.
Read MoreA poem by Gioconda Belli, dedicated to the political prisoners of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
Read MoreA group of people are calling upon the Cuban population to vote NO in the constitutional referendum, after concluding that opposition and dissident proposals will not be included in the draft constitution which the party/government/State in power has published. Read here what they propose.
Read MoreThe new draft Constitution, which has been written up by the Communist Party to tweak Cuba’s Law of Laws, forces us to ask many questions: Does it have a future? Can it really solve our national problems? In order to answer these, we first need to define what our main problems and objectives are here in Cuba.
Read MoreThere have been a number of observations aired on the independent television channels here regarding the role of the student delegates and the bishops who are the mediators and guarantors of the currently stagnated national dialogue.
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