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Violeta Chamorro: A Woman Who Fought for Peace in Nicaragua

After defeating Daniel Ortega at the polls in February 1990, she became the first elected woman president in the Americas.

Another university student warns, amid the advance of dollarization, that the country “also belongs to those of us who don’t have dollars”.

Demonstrations are planned in hundreds of cities across the USA on Saturday to protest against the actions of the Trump administration.

“Nothing ever comes to the ration store. We’re living off the small private businesses, off hot dogs that cost 450 pesos.”

The Trump administration informs migrants that their work permits have been “revoked” and must be returned to USCIS.

Two doctors said that the bank told them it did not have the foreign currency to pay them what they were owed for their work in Angola.

“We need to withdraw more and more, and the banks are giving less and less,” lamented a frustrated citizen about inflation.

“We were called in to unload the rice, but the people on the ship won’t hand it over until they see the money.”

Students have come forward with reports of institutional repression & intimidation aimed at preventing them from joining an academic strike.

I had just gotten onto one of the buses that circulate through the breezier outskirts of the Cuban capital after a brief struggle to board.