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Havana Beyond Simply Seeing the Facts

I went there to speak with people in their mother tongue, to hear their real stories, not just the ones they sell to tourists. (25 photos)

Human Rights experts speculate that Ortega and Murillo are attempting to evade international justice in case of a regime change in Nicaragua.

Despite repeated announcements in official forums, the government’s declarations never go beyond empty promises.

For migrants protected under the Temporary Protected Status program, this represents immediate deportation.

Complaints from Moa are not new. For decades, Moa’s residents have warned about environmental degradation and its impact on their health.

“The ACs are broken here’” says a worker at Plaza del Calzado shoe store, which will soon switch to selling in dollars and suddenly have AC.

Many retirees would need to invest half of their pension in a simple 284-gram (0.62 lbs.) package of imported coffee.

Alex Jimenez, a 21-year-old Cuban, has been running a thriving business that he has decided to call Mangatiny.

Francisco García paid nearly $13,000 to a smuggler to take him to Greece, where he now survives on the streets.

While many applaud Cuban boxer Andy Cruz’s decision to come back to his homeland to visit family, others attacked him…