Cuba is preparing to overhaul its Family Code after successive updates over its more than 45 years in force. Like its previous iteration, this version is subject to public consultation and will be decided by a referendum in the second quarter of the year. Jose Armando Fernandez Salazar […]
Latin America
Panama: Indigenous women and rights violations
The rape and forced pregnancy of an eight-year-old girl joins the thousands of cases of abused children ignored by the state, which has primary responsibility for ensuring the fundamental rights of children. Mario Hubert Garrido In statements to La Estrella de Panama daily newspaper, the director of the […]
‘Memo Fantasma’ faces op to 40 years in prison
If proven that Guillermo León Acevedo Giraldo was the founder and leader of the BCB and BLS, he will have to answer for the atrocities carried out by the paramilitaries. If convicted of crimes against humanity and unable to take advantage of the amnesty agreement negotiated by the AUC, Acevedo […]
A ‘Gaza in the Caribbean’ generates discord
The smart perimeter fence between the Dominican Republic and Haiti could hinder relations between the two nations. Edilberto F. Mendez The fence seeks to control and limit immigration and licit and illicit commercial activities between the two nations. And its completion by the second half of this year […]
Venezuela’s sovereignty defended by the people and the army
In the middle of a scenario of unconventional warfare, the intensification of Washington’s unilateral coercive measures, condemning Venezuela for strengthening its borders and consolidating its national defence strategy is, at the very least, an act of hypocrisy. Yadira Cruz Valera In 1989 the South American country was deep […]
















