Interview on the Economy with Comrade Wálmaro Gutiérrez, Deputy of the Sandinista Front

https://www.tortillaconsal.com/bitacora/node/5629 (excerpted) Due to the good measures adopted by the Government of Reconciliation and National Unity, we have overcome a Failed Coup d'état, Covid, hurricanes Eta and Iota, we have recovered from 3.7% negative growth to now above 4.5% in positive growth. If you look at the behavior pattern from 2020 to 2023, we have … Continue reading Interview on the Economy with Comrade Wálmaro Gutiérrez, Deputy of the Sandinista Front

Nicaragua: More than just roofs and walls: State program offers decent housing to Nicaraguans

https://actualidad.rt.com/actualidad/532141-programa-estatal-viviendas-dignas-nicaragua The Bismarck Martínez program, a social housing project in Nicaragua, has delivered thousands of homes and has become an opportunity for many families to stop renting and escape the discomfort caused by shared spaces. To date the program has facilitated the construction, financing and delivery of more than 5,200 homes and nearly 2,600 lots … Continue reading Nicaragua: More than just roofs and walls: State program offers decent housing to Nicaraguans

UNICOR UNICOR is a company that hires inmates to work inside the prison, it is the exquisite business of the millionaires of the 21st century, the slave labor of the century. Every prison has a UNICOR factory. Companies, including military companies, use prisons to make uniforms and other items. If they produce it outside they … Continue reading Hombre del Silencio: The Prison Diary of Ramon Labanino Part 11: UNICOR; Commissary; Telephone; The Prison School; The Library; Art in Prison; We Won the Appeal

Hurtado Camacho This episode has to do with Hurtado Camacho, my personal friend. His story is a peculiar case. Hurtado was imprisoned as a young man in Cuba. He was quite mischievous, he specialized in stealing from the rooftops, he was imprisoned at the age of eighteen during the Mariel period, when some inmates decided … Continue reading Hombre del Silencio: The Prison Diary of Ramon Labanino Part 10: Hurtado Camacho; The Yoruba Prison; Ariel Hernandez; Pedro Pagés; Lazaro Veliz; Diosdado Suárez, the Guajiro; Lockdowns; The typewriter; The shakedowns

Prison and coexistence In prison it is very difficult to help or be in solidarity with someone, because sometimes you can be misunderstood. On several occasions I felt sorry for those I thought were unprotected, because they had a disability or thought they were fragile, when I saw how others abused or mistreated them, so … Continue reading Hombre del Silencio: The Prison Diary of Ramon Labanino Part 9: Prison and Coexistence; Saturday, September 6, 2003; Saturday, November 22; Money in Prison; Indians in the Prisons, White Bear; To Be or Not to Be a Boss in Prison; Rafael Garden

https://misionverdad.com/venezuela/tres-datos-que-narran-el-crecimiento-economico-de-venezuela Following the global pandemic, Venezuela's main economic indicators have shown a growing improvement. This is a sustained recovery in which the country has boosted oil activity, the main source of national income, but also other activities such as construction, financial services and insurance, mining, trade, manufacturing and agriculture. This is because, since 2018, the … Continue reading Three Facts that Tell of Venezuela’s Economic Takeoff

High, medium, and low security prisons The outside part of the cell is what is called the yard or the camp out. It is the open area where you can sunbathe and walk around the yard, and it includes all the outside area, where you can move from one place to another, go from the … Continue reading Hombre del Silencio: The Prison Diary of Ramon Labanino Part 8: High, medium, and low security prisons; The different prisons I have been in; Provocations; Cook for hire; The white priest; Friday, May 30, 2003; Friday, June 6, 2003; Saturday, June 7, 2003

Canciller de Nicaragua: "Los BRICS rompen la lógica hegemónica impositiva del norte global" The BRICS represent a huge opportunity to break with Western unipolarity by paving the way for the emergence of a new world order, Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Valdrack Ludwing Jaentschke Whitaker, whose country applied to join the group in April this year, told … Continue reading Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Valdrack Jaentschke : “The BRICS break the hegemonic logic imposed by the global north”

The cursed television Johnson was a real big guy. Dark, almost six feet tall and four hundred pounds. In Beaumont everyone respected him. He was the only one who dared to work cleaning the guards' offices, because those who did so were branded as informers and could not live in peace. But he had a … Continue reading Hombre del Silencio: The Prison Diary of Ramon Labanino Part 7: The cursed television; Handball practice and physical injuries; Light in the Darkness; Excerpts from the Radio Rebelde program La Luz en la Oscuridad. March 1st, 2015; The cells

Tuberculosis and other infectious diseases Another sensitive issue I had to face was the fact that in prisons there are many people with tuberculosis. There were also people with AIDS. Its contagion was high and frequent, mainly in drug addicts, since they shared the needles with which they injected the drug. This disease they tried … Continue reading Hombre del Silencio: The Prison Diary of Ramon Labanino [one of the Cuban 5 heroes] Part 6: Tuberculosis and other infectious diseases; Aggressive sexuality; Maggie; Boniato (Sweet potato); A chair out of place; Internal life of the mafias; A death threat