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Cuba: Too Many Victims, No Scandal Big Enough

Each story shakes us for a few days. It circulates on social media, sparks outrage, makes headlines, and then often fades from view.

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Chile: Boric’s Progressive Passivity to Kast’s Neoliberal Proactivity

In these first weeks Kast has deployed a series of concrete measures: fiscal adjustments, deregulation, and a strong emphasis on security.

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Trump Says Cuba Is Next, But What That Means Is Unclear

From the Palace of the Revolution they want to deceive us with a game of cat and mouse, while the US president, Donald Trump, speaks bluntly.

29.03.2026 8

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Havana, Cuba Seen From ‘The Control Tower’

I imagine the Russians are tired of bailing out their Cuban comrades, but also in need of allies in this hemisphere.

28.03.2026 10

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David Adler Lies About Cuba

Monica Baró Sánchez comments on the declarations of David Adler, president of Progressive International, one of the groups participating in the...

25.03.2026 5

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The Flotilla of Shamelessness in Cuba

It is a safari of misery. It is the ultimate disrespect one human being can show another—looking down from a privileged height.

24.03.2026 8

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Predictions Galore on Cuba

The number of predictions regarding Cuba's immediate future is multiplying daily. Many of the predictions contradict one another.

24.03.2026 10

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Cuba: More of the Same Politics or Significant Change?

Across the island, repeated blackouts, fuel shortages, and disruptions to basic services have become part of everyday life.

23.03.2026 10

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Cuban Gov. Says There’s No Discussion on Regime Change

Does Cossio think we are fools? What other interest could the Trump administration have in a country that has nothing else to offer.

23.03.2026 10

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What Cuba Are They Talking About?

Over 600 mostly North Americans & Europeans are in Cuba with the "Nuestra America Convoy" to show their support for the Cuban government.

22.03.2026 4

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Nicaragua: Reparations for Victims & Democratic Transition

How much would it cost to compensate all the victims of the serious human rights violations committed by the Ortega-Murillo regime?

22.03.2026 9

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Everyone But Trump Understands What He’s Done

Leaders of countries allied with the United States know that any positive gesture they make will count for nothing.

22.03.2026 10

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How to Help the People of Cuba

Real help for the Cuban people would be a policy aimed at encouraging reforms that recapitalize the country and an opening of public freedoms

20.03.2026 10

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Reina, Havana’s Stately Street Where Garbage Is Sold

The city’s arcades (covered walkways) display objects rescued from the garbage piles.

20.03.2026 20

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The Constant Walker and the Paralyzed Havana

I leave early. Dawn is my ally because I know Havana wakes up later and later. This Tuesday, there are additional reasons to stay in bed...

17.03.2026 10

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Cuba: It’s Time to Intervene in the State Itself

By Ariel Hidalgo HAVANA TIMES — The proposal by President Miguel Díaz-Canel to resolve the deep crisis the country is

16.03.2026 10

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Let’s Not Forget Cuba

The nightly pot-banging protests are a symptom of a social and economic model facing its most critical hour.

15.03.2026 9

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Phantom Conversations Between the USA and Cuba

After playing cat and mouse for several weeks, our ineffable Miguel Díaz-Canel finally acknowledged that official contacts exist.

15.03.2026 10

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Nicaragua: The Opportunity to End the Dictatorship

Mobilization can open the opportunity for a political change beginning this year, one which could cause Rosario Murillo to back down.

13.03.2026 10

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Advice for Cubans: “Be Like Water”

I cannot remember a single moment of my life in Havana when water has not been a concern. Living in this city includes water anxiety.

12.03.2026 10

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Cancelled Canadian Trips to Cuba Might Be a Good Thing

As someone born outside the island, I hope to one day see a Cuba where its citizens can thrive and no longer feel the need to leave.

10.03.2026 10

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A Family Dictatorship “Under the Horses’ Hooves”

When will the time come for the Ortega-Murillos? That is the question everyone in Nicaragua—including the Sandinistas themselves—is asking.

09.03.2026 10

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Could Cuba’s Raul Castro Be Wanted and Captured?

The only thing working in Raul Castro’s favor is that he is 94 years old and justice in the USA tends to move slowly.

08.03.2026 8

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Trump with Cuba: Good Cop or Bad Cop?

On social media, memes circulate accusing Iran of cutting in line, the joke being that Cuba should have received its “liberation” before Iran.

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Professor Abel Tablada and Expulsions in Cuba

Could it be that there is an attempt to return to an even more repressive stage in the nation’s civil liberties?

06.03.2026 10

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Why Aren’t Nicaragua’s Flags at Half Mast for Ally Khamenei

Cartoon by PxMolina (Confidencial) See more from Nicaragua here on Havana Times.

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Is Trump Trying to Divide Cuba’s Dissident Activism?

In Cuba, there are many dissenting voices criticizing the country’s collapse. They search for its causes and those responsible.

02.03.2026 10

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Cuba vs. Cuba: The Real Conflict Was Never Cuba vs the USA

No one in the world would lift a finger for the regime if it were too evident that the conflict is really against its own citizens.

02.03.2026 10

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“Participatory Democracy” in Nicaragua

This cartoon by Px Molina illustrates what the Murillo-Ortega family dictatorship consider a participatory democracy.

02.03.2026 10

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Cuba: A New Blunder that Doesn’t Help the Cause of Freedom

This story is just beginning, and there is much yet to be clarified, but for now the dictatorship’s narrative comes out on top.

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The Other Revolution

I do not want to be a spoiler, but one must not trust blindly in the promises of representatives of a foreign power.

01.03.2026 20

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Hope for Cuba

Alongside the exhaustion of the Cuban people under the weight of a dysfunctional reality, hope has also been growing that there is a possibility of...

28.02.2026 10

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Washington and Cuba and the Evidence of Real Change

Too many times, a new process of transformation has been announced that ends up being merely a change of tone, a reversible concession...

28.02.2026 10

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Rage and Garbage Burn in Havana

It's as if a living entity, lacking individual personality, had taken over the streets, the air, and the sky of Havana.

27.02.2026 10

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Cuba Cannot Wait – Reform or Collapse

Let me be clear: I am not a friend of repression. I am not a defender of political monopoly. I am a friend of the Cuban people.

26.02.2026 10

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The End of Gabriel Boric’s Government in Chile

During the campaign, Boric was explicit in questioning practices such as greyhound racing, labeling them forms of normalized cruelty.

26.02.2026 20

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The End of an Empire? Is the USA a Dictatorship?

I asked some foreign reporters how they saw the USA, and they unequivocally told me that it seems to be a country that is self-destructing.

23.02.2026 20

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Who from Cuba Is the United States Talking To?

It is a delicate dilemma: exploring paths to political transition without ignoring the historic demand for accountability from exiles.

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Havana, Cuba in Critical Condition

The contrast couldn’t be sharper: above, a tourist-postcard blue sky; below, we move nervously through filth and despair.

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Prelude to a Homecoming in Cuba

The last time I traveled to Cuba, you could already feel that breeze of sadness that would now turn into hurricane-force winds.

19.02.2026 10

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Lech Walesa Gives Welcome Advice to Cubans Who Want Change

If anyone knows firsthand how hard a transition from a communist dictatorship to a democracy can be, it is Lech Walesa.

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Nicaragua & the USA: Negotiation, Capitulation, or Rumors?

Actions by the Trump administration regarding Venezuela and Cuba have also created the expectation that Nicaragua is next in line.

15.02.2026 20

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Cuba’s Zero Options

Today, Cuban authorities and social media voices among those of us who remember the ’90s are invoking that ghost again. Let me explain...

15.02.2026 20

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Chile: Plurinationality Didn’t Advance with Boric’s Gov.

Many of us naively believed there was a real possibility of breaking with the Chilean history of treating the Mapuche people as a security issue. The...

13.02.2026 30

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Cuba and the Time to Take Off the Masks

The disproportion between those who cling to the current model and those who want a political opening is now favorable to the latter. The post Cuba...

12.02.2026 20

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Cuba: It Looks Like Artificial Intelligence

I believe in the freedom of expression of the MCGA youths. We share the desire for the end of this regime, but they don't represent me. The post...

11.02.2026 8

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The “ICE” Watchman

I am impressed with Minneapolis. I have never seen a city as supportive as this one. A large part of the Latino community is in hiding. The post The...

09.02.2026 20

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Cuba: It Seems We’ve Entered the Final Phase

There’s plenty of verbal solidarity, but cars run on gasoline; when oral fuel is invented, then we’ll swim in abundance. The post Cuba: It Seems...

09.02.2026 20

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Rebellious Youth the Cuban Government Wants to Silence

Each arrest like this confirms that telling the truth remains, in Cuba, the most dangerous and most necessary act. The post Rebellious Youth the Cuban...

08.02.2026 30

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What Does Marco Rubio Want with Cuba?

Given the catastrophic state of Cuba's economy, and that there is no solution without including the USA, Rubio will ask to dismante the regime The...

08.02.2026 50

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