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Cuban government voices or those “supportive” of the government, promote an image of “social justice” and accessible well-being for everyone.
From the crumbling arcades of Monte St. to neighborhoods without power, Havana displays the physical and emotional wear of the crisis.
The minimum monthly price for a bed in a double room at TaTamanía! is $1,080 USD, in a country where most workers earn under $15 USD a month.
The bill is a continuation of other security-oriented initiatives, which also promised to restore order and strengthen teacher authority.
Maybe you know who I am. A few years ago, I published a history of Cuba and the USA that was based on decades of research on the island.
The revocation of United States visas from La Nación newspaper executives attacks journalistic independence.
Once again, the threat stirred up the ancient ghost of Cuba’s inability to determine its own destiny from within.
The extraordinary political and humanitarian gesture by Spain in response to the crime against Nicaraguan “stateless persons”.
Social media was flooded within hours with posts of support, rejection, or mockery, while Cuba faces a humanitarian crisis and uncertainty...
Just as Cuban State Security’s “Villa Marista” disrupts the cycles of detainees, the Island suffers its own sleep deprivation.
Today, Venezuela stands at a historical crossroads, with many internal contradictions in tension.
It began as a normal, everyday idea in many countries, but we already know that Cuba is not a normal country.
The grass is encroaching on the train tracks and the day care center is closed, but they are calling on us to “celebrate May 1st with joy.”
I rang the doorbell, and—as always—no one answered over the intercom or opened the front door. I noticed the presence of a camera...
We will see hundreds of thousands of signatures from people who, if asked anonymously, would say they want nothing to do with this regime.
Internal struggles to eliminate competitors, gain influence, or secure exclusive patronage have always been intense.
I know that the guards are not to blame for my being here. Our destructive, dysfunctional political system isn’t their fault.
A childhood friend assures me that this is like when the eye of the cyclone passes over us and it seems that calm has finally arrived.
What happens in Budapest can alter decisions in Brussels, just as what happens in Washington, Berlin, or Paris affects the battlefield in Eastern...
If arrested, she will force Trump to side with democracy. And if she is not detained, she will once again place herself at center stage.
While Cuba remains unchanged, we, her children, continue to die slowly—like victims of a sick Mother whom we have not yet managed to cure.
He brazenly declared that any foreigner who supports the dictatorship is more Cuban than those who advocate for Cuba’s freedom.
With different causes, and even greater force, chikungunya returns with its secondary symptoms, as a generalized, chronic health problem.
In Cuba there is so much to change, so much to achieve: democracy, elections, an economy, human rights… and so many bodies to save.
The USA, Arab states, the EU, AIPAC, and Israel’s own opposition, have all claimed to seek Israeli-Palestinian peace while enabling permanent...
In this rigged poker game run by the dictatorship in Nicaragua, the old mining players should remember that “the house always wins.”
Nicaragua is facing a fracture that goes beyond politics: the conflict has divided families, friendships, and communities.
Blackouts have wiped out the movie theaters & the Coppelia ice cream parlor, life is now in the kiosks advertising: “We have everything here”
During an interview granted to the US network NBC News, he was asked whether he would be willing to resign for the good of his country.
One thing is improvising in a ruined country, another is turning precariousness into military doctrine and showing it off.
If parties continue dividing up the Peruvian political landscape, there is little reason to expect greater governmental stability after the elections.
Neither in Cuba nor in Nicaragua has there been, despite external pressure, a visible rupture within the dictatorial regimes. Not so in Venezuela.
Instead of cleaning up the corner trash heap, the authorities prefer to prevent anyone from photographing it.
Vanessa Kaiser proposed eliminating the Ministry of Women and Gender Equality in order to create, in its place, a Ministry of Men in Chile.
The alliance of 21st-century dictatorships is cracking after Maduro’s removal by the USA, but a democratic transition is nowhere in sight.
This is a presentation Calzadilla made on March 25, 2026, to the Basque Parliament in Spain, country where she took exile in late 2023.
In Nicaragua, the Ortega-Murillo regime has sealed the doors of churches, forbidding faith from walking through the streets...
I do not want bombs to fall on the land where I was born. But neither do I wish for a regime that has destroyed the nation to remain in power.
Many of us reject animal cruelty disguised as sport, and we do not accept that public authorities legitimize practices as abhorrent as rodeo.
Each story shakes us for a few days. It circulates on social media, sparks outrage, makes headlines, and then often fades from view.
In these first weeks Kast has deployed a series of concrete measures: fiscal adjustments, deregulation, and a strong emphasis on security.
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.
I imagine the Russians are tired of bailing out their Cuban comrades, but also in need of allies in this hemisphere.
Monica Baró Sánchez comments on the declarations of David Adler, president of Progressive International, one of the groups participating in the...
It is a safari of misery. It is the ultimate disrespect one human being can show another—looking down from a privileged height.
The number of predictions regarding Cuba's immediate future is multiplying daily. Many of the predictions contradict one another.
Across the island, repeated blackouts, fuel shortages, and disruptions to basic services have become part of everyday life.
Does Cossio think we are fools? What other interest could the Trump administration have in a country that has nothing else to offer.
Over 600 mostly North Americans & Europeans are in Cuba with the "Nuestra America Convoy" to show their support for the Cuban government.
How much would it cost to compensate all the victims of the serious human rights violations committed by the Ortega-Murillo regime?
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