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WEB2 days ago · Venezuela: Edmundo Gonzalez Takes Exile in Spain. September 8, 2024. Another September 11th arrives in Chile, along with a new commemoration of the criminal coup d’état that took place in 1973. In recent months, we have seen numerous reports about Cuban government officials, or their close relatives, attempting to enter the USA.
A Bricklayer Reflects on Cuba After Three Years in Jail
WEB1 day ago · By 14ymedio. HAVANA TIMES – Jose Rodriguez Herrada, sentenced to three years and six months for participating in the mass protests in Caibarién, Villa Clara, on 11 July 2021, was discharged from prison on Friday. After his release from Guamajal prison in Santa Clara city, the 52-year-old ex-convict was joyfully welcomed home by family and ...
Nicaragua’s Absurd and Out-of-Control Repression - Havana Times
WEB1 day ago · Nicaragua’s Absurd and Out-of-Control Repression. September 18, 2024. Illustration: Confidencial. The latest group of 135 political prisoners banished to Guatemala includes some activists, government opponents, worshippers, common citizens and FSLN militants. In most cases, however, the prisoners’ crime was to express themselves.
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WEB2 days ago · Highs between 28 and 32°C (82 and 90°F), while lows will be 23 and 24°C (73 and 75°F). The sea surface temperature will be 30°C (86°F).
In Post-Election Venezuela, Journalist Jailings at New High
WEB3 days ago · Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro addresses government loyalists one month after the presidential vote, in Caracas, Venezuela, on August 28, 2024. (Photo: AP/Ariana Cubillos) Several reporters have fled the country. One journalist, who had been covering anti-government protests in the western state of …
Cuba, an Island that Sinks - Havana Times
WEBJun 25, 2024 · HAVANA TIMES – Cuba, the largest island in the Antilles and the 17th largest in the world, is sinking, but not because of climate change. The sea level has not risen. The coastline has not sunk. Cuba is sinking due to decades of neglect, decades of abandonment. After April and May turned out to be unusually dry, June seems to …
The Havana of Our Time - Havana Times
WEBApr 29, 2024 · HAVANA TIMES – In Havana, the prices of anything and everything have long since reached unaffordable levels, similar to what anyone in a major first-world capital would normally pay. The difference is that in Havana, salaries are much much lower. On top of that, it’s not just that prices are high; they are high because everything is scarce ...
New US Measures for Cuba: Content and Timing - Havana Times
WEBMay 25, 2022 · By Armando Chaguaceda and Eloy Viera (El Toque) HAVANA TIMES – Measures announced by the Biden Administration lack creativity (although this was expected), and have come at the wrong time, politically-speaking. They resemble the incomplete replication of Obama’s policy for a Cuba …
An Exhausted Country and City - Havana Times
WEBBy Protected Person* (El Toque) HAVANA TIMES – The last New Year’s Eve I spent in Havana was in 2019, a few months before the COVID-19 pandemic was announced in Cuba. Then came the final onslaught from the “Temporary Situation”, currency unification, the Economic Reforms, long lines, “brigades to tackle line-sitters” (LCC) – they ...
What You Need to Know as Cuba Reopens to Tourists
WEBNov 14, 2021 · HAVANA TIMES – On October 20, 2021, Cuba’s Ministry of Tourism (MINTUR) announced that the country was moving towards a “controlled and tiered [opening] of its borders, scheduled for November 15th.”. Amidst an economic crisis considered to be the worst one in the past thirty years and …
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