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Amid banging pots and pans, plumes of smoke, and outages, the Cuban electricity crisis seems to have turned madness into a widespread state.
Naturally, headlines focused on his openness to dialogue with Washington. But the deeper significance of the interview may lie elsewhere.
The energy crisis and inflation have turned a food that for decades was plentiful on Cuban tables into an almost exclusive commodity.
Donald Trump was deeply misled by the success of the operation to oust Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro on January 3rd.
The earth shook in Venezuela. It did so with such force that it fractured what remained of a State that had already been reduced to rubble.
Wi-Fi hotspots are disappearing, mobile coverage is failing, and customers are chasing a signal that is becoming increasingly scarce.
Ever since the Berlin Wall fell 37 years ago Cuba has been debating economic reforms to its socialist system, but little has happened.
Climate activists, human rights defenders, Indigenous communities and peace advocates have much to lose from the incoming government’s agenda
The Nicaraguan opposition in exile knows that recovering democracy needs unity among allies and former adversaries.
It means investing in prison bars instead of schools, walls instead of opportunities, punishment instead of a future.
In recent days, I have seen many people mention the Soviet perestroika when referring to the economic measures announced by the Cuban regime.
Cuba's fundamental challenge: Can meaningful economic reform endure within a political system structurally designed to constrain it?
It is not merely a failed economic model; it is a system of power incapable of transforming itself while putting its own existence at risk.
Reform may expand production, attract capital, and energize local economies, but without clear rules, it may also increase inequality.
People often discuss Russia’s aggressive war against Ukraine in terms of drones, missiles, shifting front lines, and territorial borders. But this...
“It feels a bit lackluster,” my friend Jimmy remarked regarding the World Cup atmosphere in the United States.
As a circus tent rises beside Havana's Revolution Square, blackouts and urban decay deepen Cubans’ isolation.
The crime against Indigenous leader Brooklyn Rivera in Nicaragua marks the seventh political prisoner to die in state custody since 2019.
The process could take a month before a new president is officially declared, but the challenge does not end when the vote count ends.
A few days ago, a friend asked me why I had used the word exile in an article I published in a Latin American magazine. It made me think.
Cuba must not start over as if its history could be erased and rewritten under someone else’s supervision.
Despite this routine operational context, naval movements in the Caribbean are often interpreted through a distinctly Cuba-centric lens.
For decades, those of us living in Cuba became accustomed to a highly centralized communications system on the island.
The denial of access to specialized medical care is a punitive practice—not only a method of torture, but also a Crime Against Humanity.
The man who a decade ago shook hands with Obama in diplomatic ceremonies is now an elderly figure cornered by the US justice system.
Learning to be autistic? What nonsense! Anyone with even a basic education knows that autism is an innate condition.
Subjecting a 16-year-old to harsh prison conditions for peacefully protesting raises serious concerns under human rights and international law
As the father of an infant son, I see in Edgar Morin’s thought even as a way of understanding parenting, where relationships occupy a central place.
The way out was outward when it was necessary to save our lives. The solution is inward if we ever want to change the country.
I am not writing “from below,” as I always try to do, but rather from what I imagine to be the perspective of the decision makers.
The increasingly Nazified Likud Party in Israel continues to bomb cities, villages, and individual homes and apartment buildings in Lebanon.
The final stretch of Colombia’s presidential campaign has left the country captive to polarization, political violence, and rhetoric that erodes...
I haven’t had to explain much. Reality itself has taken care of making it clear to her that the country she remembers no longer exists.
What would be the real impact of something like this? No one really knows, because the key lies in the secret talks both sides are holding.
Personally, I understand very little of what’s happening. And that overwhelms my mind and body, even more than the shortages and deprivation.
Beyond dates, attendees at the summit in Panama agreed on the urgency of establishing an immediate electoral timetable.
Since the 1960s, leaving or wanting to leave Cuba was equivalent, in the eyes of the authorities, to committing an offense.
Joe Garcia describes 8 issues on the table including: political prisoners, the embargo, confiscated properties, internal reforms, and financial...
The urgency of profound change in Cuba is so obvious that all transition proposals resemble one another in their essentials.
An underground current seeps through the country. Thousands are suspect in the eyes of the ruling powers, driving them to desperation.
Without internet, without public transportation, and with household appliances fried by power surges, Havana seems at its harshest origins.
The presence in Cuba this week of the director of the CIA, John Ratcliffe, generated a wave of opinions and speculation on the island.
Cuba today is not yet collapsing. But it is under visible strain., yet it is increasingly in a mode of endurance rather than renewal.
If the social explosion repeats itself, Diaz-Canel will discover that his true ending was not written in English, but in Cuban.
The current government of Gustavo Petro attempted to achieve what they called “Total Peace,” but this goal remains distant...
The reported cases are just the tip of the iceberg, and I can personally confirm this from my own experiences.
While hundreds wait in line to leave the country after sleepless nights, a class is emerging that can shield itself from blackouts and sleep soundly.
The Mexican government should seize this opportunity to take the side of the victims, rather than that of the thugs and the corrupt.
Cuba’s Council of Ministers decided to reduce the country’s Ministries from 27 to 21, supposedly in order to eliminate the bureaucracy.
Cuban government voices or those “supportive” of the government, promote an image of “social justice” and accessible well-being for everyone.
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