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Leonardo, Another Cuban Who Subsists

In Cuba, physical and psychological deterioration has been increasing. The struggle to survive has become an accumulating social problem.

Indigenous people, community leaders, and experts share their visions of Nicaragua’s most ancient cultures.

‘It’s terrible what we go through for children to learn something and meet what school demands,’ says a Cuban mother.

“I will continue to fight for my Cuba to be really free, because I left the small prison and entered the big one. I don’t feel free.”

Despite the arrests and threats from the Cuban government, this month another wave of protests has been triggered in the country.

Luis Manuel Otero: “You wake up at six in the morning with a bell that sounds like the cry of a madman”.

The agreement had stipulated an obligation to work ten years for the government after graduation or pay over US $61,000 to be released.

Prices have skyrocketed in the historic capital of Cuban exiles, making life even more difficult for new arrivals.

A good part of the areas taken from the bay are once again under its control when storms and hurricanes hit the Cuban capital.

It is rare for a human rights activist to reach that stage because there is much behind-the-scenes work with diplomats loyal to the regime.