‘El Cangrejo’: Raúl Castro’s ‘favorite’ grandson in talks with the United States
Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro has been present at all the important meetings with the US, but even so, Cubans wonder who really rules Cuba today
A Cuba on the brink of collapse peers into the vertigo of change imposed from the United States
The CIA director’s presence in Havana, one day after the regime admitted it had exhausted its fuel reserves, accelerates Trump’s ‘takeover’ of the island
Underinvestment, crumbling walls and rave parties: Spain doesn’t know what to do with its castles
José María Sadia|Madrid|
Experts are calling for an updated official inventory to fully understand the state of the fortifications and halt their progressive deterioration: more than half are in danger of collapsing
Brussels, a city without garbage containers
In the European capital, a door-to-door collection model for sorted waste is the primary system of trash disposal, but the system is being questioned
The Indigenous leaders who saved Guatemala’s election have spent a year in jail on ‘terrorism’ charges
Amnesty International considers Luis Pacheco and Héctor Chaclán, who prevented the derailment of the election result in 2023, to be prisoners of conscience
Venezuela: The risk of changing so everything stays the same
The opposition, which is awaiting US support to move forward with a schedule for elections, is skeptical about the institutional reforms undertaken by the government
How Trump is inadvertently driving US support for the Catholic Church
The pope’s latest symbolic rebuke to the president is appointing a Salvadoran who entered the country as an undocumented migrant as bishop
The flip side of New York’s skyline: Crumbling public housing
One in 20 New Yorkers, mostly African Americans and Latinos, live in aging buildings. Refurbishing them would be more expensive than tearing them down
Takeshi Yoro, anatomist: ‘In Japan, we don’t see a robot as a threat: it’s simply another form of presence in the world’
The 88-year-old Japanese physician swapped autopsies for popular science writing. In his best-seller, he argues that we have vast amounts of information but fail to understand one another because of an ‘invisible wall’ made up of prejudice, bias, self-assurance, and the failure to listen
Reyna Grande, author: ‘Trying to find the joy is an act of resistance’
In ‘Migrant Heart’, her latest book published this week, the writer debuts in the essay genre and reflects on the psychological wounds resulting from her family relationships and her experience as an undocumented migrant
How Cubans perceive Trump: From ‘deporter-in-chief’ to ‘savior of the island’
While some in Cuba see an American intervention as being the only hope for change, others claim to be living their ‘worst nightmare’ under the Republican president’s administration
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