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Yoani Sanchez on the Mass Banishment from Nicaragua

Ortega is a loyal disciple of Fidel Castro, who utilized the dissenters imprisoned during Cuba’s 2003 Black Spring as tokens of exchange.

Since the so-called transition in Peru, from 2001 onwards, little or nothing has mattered about the election of numerous different presidents.

More than a quarter of a million Cubans abandoned the island last year, and the vast majority were young people, many of them highly educated.

Crossing borders, embarking on a journey which you only know the beginning but not the end, while you accept an uncertain future…

There has never been in Venezuela such a fierce and sustained repressor of the working class and its leaders as the so-called worker-president

Today I appropriate a short and lapidary phrase that we hear daily in the voice of feminist movements around the world: Not One More!

Even though I thought I was ready for anything at 62 years old – which I turn today -, I must admit that I never expected to see…

It seems like déjà vu. Once again, the Cuban government “has summoned” those who drive state vehicles to pick up passengers.”

I ask here what makes Chileans so afraid and what consequences this might have on the constitutional process that is currently underway…

Being a woman in Nicaragua means living as a prisoner in your own space; living with fear, in silence, with your mind and hands tied.