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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...
Ortega was not making a threat: he was admitting the true nature of a regime that can only remain in power by eliminating the vote.
Acknowledging shared responsibility for the emergence of the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship does not diminish Ortega’s responsibility.
Months ago, armed with my calculations and a healthy dose of skepticism, I concluded that the Cuban system wouldn’t survive to see July 11.
In a country where the State no longer provides electricity, water, medicine, or bread, every family is trying to save itself however it can.
What does the "Reconstruction of Venezuela" mean? Under what criteria and guidelines will it be carried out? Who will manage it?
What does the "Reconstruction of Venezuela" mean? Under what criteria and guidelines will it be carried out? Who will manage it?
Amid political prisoners, blackouts, and palace infighting, the fifth anniversary of July 11 confirms the regime’s final exhaustion.
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.
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