“Food is scarce: you have to go to different places to find everything you need,” pensioner Rita Lina Pintado explained to IPS, referring to the main obstacle she faces to compliment her food rations that the Cuban State distributes at a low price every month.
At the age of 16, she was arrested for killing a man who had picked her up for sex, after she had been forced into sexual slavery as a child.
Mario Arana, president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Nicaragua (AmCham), warned that the Free Trade Agreement between Central America, the United States and the Dominican Republic (known as Cafta-DR) is “at risk”, due to the lack of political will on the part of President Daniel Ortega to seek a way out of Nicaragua’s social, political and economic crisis.
A girl’s passage to adolescence is normally complicated for many, especially the time when they discover their bodies begin to change.
Today’s featured artist is Socrates Lazo y su Orquesta from Panama with the song “Soledad” from the album “Sigo pa’lante” (1970s).
Roman Coliseum, Rome, Italy. By Marylene Gray (Nicaragua). Camera: Motorola Android phone G6
Today’s featured band is La Familia Varela Miranda from Cuba with the song “Vida Parrandera” from the album “Oriente De Cuba: The Son” (1994).
Before the Winter, Ontario, Canada. By Steve McCaig (Canada). Camera: Google Pixel cell phone
The adoption of a legal framework to apply sanctions, by the Council of the European Union (EU) is a sign of the failure of the Ortega regime in the international arena, according to the Spanish former member of the European Parliament Ramon Jauregui.
Retired colonel Carlos Brenes is the highest-ranking former member of the military to be imprisoned by the dictatorship during the April rebellion.