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Faced with an increasingly tangled and contradictory Cuban reality, it is surprising to see how intelligent people resort to convoluted arguments to...
While the fuel business accelerates construction, garbage, ruins, and homelessness spread throughout the city.
The lines outside the gas distribution points were legendary. People usually had to spend the entire day, keeping their cylinder company.
When I think about the manosphere, I often think about what I was like when I was 15 or 20. I was very shy, and had social anxiety...
My experience as a student in Leon, Nicaragua My memories of the community of Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast, Indigenous, and Afro-descendant
All of 2026 is the official centennial year of Fidel Castro, whom many people around the world still regard today as Cuba’s iconic hero.
I was well aware that the trial Cuban content creator and activist Anna Bensi, was going to be neither impartial nor fair.
The arrival of fuel has revived traffic and brought more vehicles back onto the streets, while blackouts lasting more than 20 hours continue.
Public letter from Latin America calls for defending democracy, sovereignty, and the self-determination of the Nicaraguan people.
What in a free society is called exercising freedom of expression is called “disobedience” in the vocabulary of totalitarianism.
Havana continues to insist that it is willing to engage in dialogue, while those of us caught in the middle are like fish laid out on a market stall,
The first time I entered an all-inclusive hotel, I did so neither as a guest nor as an employee. I was 17 and slipped in disguised with my cousin.
Trump spoke so plainly about another nation that the Cuban delegation walked out of the chamber while he was speaking.
The dehumanizing images in Rosario Murillo’s insults are neither a coincidence nor the product of an attack of rage, it’s a strategy for power.
Every September 18 in Chile, rodeo returns as a symbol of “what is ours” during the country’s Independence Day celebrations.
The lesson is clear: in times of crisis, some people count coins to buy food; others count hectares to hand out favors.
The purpose of this farce was not so much to convince ordinary Cubans as the regime’s “enemies.” Specifically, the US government.
The three parts can be read independently, but when viewed as parts of a single journey they acquire a new dimension.
Nicaragua does not need a new group of chosen ones speaking on behalf of “the forgotten,” even if they are younger or have an appealing message.
North Korea has had two dynastic successions, from Kim Il Sung to Kim Jong-il, and from Jong-il to Kim Jong-un. Ortega’s regime has had none.
There are two questions that have always seemed to me journalistically appropriate and easy for anyone who considers themselves a democrat to answer.
In March 2023, the world learned of a case that sparked one of the first debates about the dangers of emotional relationships between human beings and...
Censorship forced people to perfect their codes. The comedian learned to leave empty spaces, and the audience learned to fill them.
An agreement like the one announced this week, allowing US companies access to billions of barrels of Venezuelan oil, raises questions.
Ortega has abolished elections. Do not deny Nicaragua the right to choose freely—the same right that could make you president of Brazil for a fourth...
When someone repeatedly lies to your face, you have to admire their persistence. Not everyone has the talent to maintain a lie while staring you...
Today I want to address the US government’s blockade against Cuba, the one that has existed for more than 60 years...
When I left my country, I felt relief. My first thought was for my freedom, the possibility of defending what I believe in.
The blockade Cuba is facing on fuel imports has the dictatorship experimenting with every possible avenue in search of some breathing room.
In almost every Cuban family, someone has left, someone is preparing to leave, or someone is trying to figure out how.
The offensive against private businesses has reduced supplies in a city where finding a package of chicken has become quite an expedition.
Six months have passed since the events of January 3 in Venezuela unleashed an avalanche of predictions about what would immediately happen in Cuba.
His crime was shouting from his balcony about the many miseries we endure every day. When the video went viral, the regime took action.
A fundamental feature of the new international reality is the structural change in the United States. The Republican Party has abandoned free trade...
Anna Bensi is not simply an influencer; she is a dissident in the digital age whose crime is making the invisible visible.
Many Cubans in the USA mirror the very same intolerance and contempt that they have spent decades criticizing in the Cuban government.
By any measure, this constitutes official cruelty. No child, anywhere in the world, should ever be imprisoned.
Costa Rica must not turn its back on a people suffering imprisonment, nor trivialize the language with which tyrannies begin.
When I was growing up, my mother often said, "Nosotros somos indios, africanos y españoles." We are Indigenous, African, and Spanish.
Power outages and a lack of internet turn a family phone call between Berlin and Villa Clara into an ordeal marked by distance and exile.
“The main challenge for Venezuela is to transform destructive rivalry into a genuine exercise in practical politics.”
A walk in Vedado reveals the decline of the commercial network the military built to control remittances, tourism, and hard-currency stores.
The Cuban leader turned the July 26 commemoration into a lengthy harangue devoid of self-criticism, solutions, and clinging to the rhetoric of the...
The current government has plundered and morally and materially ruined the country, but the solution is not to become a United States colony.
By openly decreeing that there will be no more elections in his country, Ortega marks a point of no return of unprecedented gravity.
A Cuban family’s testimony from a Havana hospital, facing an illness that does not wait.
No statistic can replace a conversation with someone who works, runs a business, pays taxes, or waits for medical care.
From his earliest days as a visual and performance artist, Otero used his work to denounce political repression, censorship, and the lack of...
That is how life unfolds in Cuba: enduring an adverse reality while nurturing the hope that this nightmare will end.
The trial of Luis Gonzalez Pardo, one of those implicated in the downing of two Brothers to the Rescue aircraft in February 1996, is set for August...
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