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“They Threw Us Out Like Dogs”, Say People Evicted in Havana

Those thrown out have a month to collect their things from the warehouse where the local authority put them.

Former president Ricardo Martinelli was sentenced to more than ten years in prison and fined over 19 million dollars for money laundering.

Two Western Union sources indicated this date to 14ymedio because “there are problems with the banks” on the Island.

“This building had been declared uninhabitable for a long time but the need is great,” say the residents of Factoria 70.

Havana that once had a vibrant nightlife that made it famous throughout the Americas is not even a shadow of what it was. (25 photos)

Luis Manuel Otero is serving a five-year sentence for having dared to defend freedom of expression in Cuba.

“He was lucky the driver was a decent man but now comes the hard part, waiting for a doctor,” said a woman on the bus.

The Salvadoran president and his Nuevas Ideas party now have a blank check to wield unlimited power.

“The concentration of power in Ortega and Murillo is brutal, there is extreme opacity, and corruption is not punished.”

As usual, the dismissed were thanked for their work, and equally unknown and probably incompetent replacements were appointed.