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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?
Leaders of countries allied with the United States know that any positive gesture they make will count for nothing.
Real help for the Cuban people would be a policy aimed at encouraging reforms that recapitalize the country and an opening of public freedoms
The city’s arcades (covered walkways) display objects rescued from the garbage piles.
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...
By Ariel Hidalgo HAVANA TIMES — The proposal by President Miguel Díaz-Canel to resolve the deep crisis the country is
The nightly pot-banging protests are a symptom of a social and economic model facing its most critical hour.
After playing cat and mouse for several weeks, our ineffable Miguel Díaz-Canel finally acknowledged that official contacts exist.
Mobilization can open the opportunity for a political change beginning this year, one which could cause Rosario Murillo to back down.
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.
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.
When will the time come for the Ortega-Murillos? That is the question everyone in Nicaragua—including the Sandinistas themselves—is asking.
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.
On social media, memes circulate accusing Iran of cutting in line, the joke being that Cuba should have received its “liberation” before Iran.
Could it be that there is an attempt to return to an even more repressive stage in the nation’s civil liberties?
Cartoon by PxMolina (Confidencial) See more from Nicaragua here on Havana Times.
In Cuba, there are many dissenting voices criticizing the country’s collapse. They search for its causes and those responsible.
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.
This cartoon by Px Molina illustrates what the Murillo-Ortega family dictatorship consider a participatory democracy.
This story is just beginning, and there is much yet to be clarified, but for now the dictatorship’s narrative comes out on top.
I do not want to be a spoiler, but one must not trust blindly in the promises of representatives of a foreign power.
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...
Too many times, a new process of transformation has been announced that ends up being merely a change of tone, a reversible concession...
It's as if a living entity, lacking individual personality, had taken over the streets, the air, and the sky of Havana.
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.
During the campaign, Boric was explicit in questioning practices such as greyhound racing, labeling them forms of normalized cruelty.
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.
It is a delicate dilemma: exploring paths to political transition without ignoring the historic demand for accountability from exiles.
The contrast couldn’t be sharper: above, a tourist-postcard blue sky; below, we move nervously through filth and despair.
The last time I traveled to Cuba, you could already feel that breeze of sadness that would now turn into hurricane-force winds.
If anyone knows firsthand how hard a transition from a communist dictatorship to a democracy can be, it is Lech Walesa.
Actions by the Trump administration regarding Venezuela and Cuba have also created the expectation that Nicaragua is next in line.
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