Cuban Government Trials Fuel Reform
Since people buy black-market gas to supplement limited state supply, a pilot project will see fuel on sale legally.
Foreign Tourists Targeted by Havana's Male Prostitutes
For some young men, the sex trade offers an income unavailable in the rest of the cash-strapped economy.
Cuba's Entrepreneurs Flourish Against the Odds
Self-employed numbers rose ten per cent in 2012.
Fake Banknotes in Havana
People pay surprisingly little attention to checking whether their change comes in counterfeit notes.
Cubans Revive Doll-Burning Tradition
Old customs which the Communist regime once frowned on are making a reappearance.
Thousands Attend Cuban Pilgrimage
Shrine of St Lazarus focus of uniquely Cuban festival.
Cholera Controls Extend to Cuban Capital
Precautions in place in Havana's old town.
Cuban Journalist Ends Hunger Strike
UN body asked to look at continued arbitrary detention of Calixto Ramón Martínez Arias.
Foreign Money for Cuban Sugar Industry
Plans to revive processing and use waste to make biomass fuel.
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Global Voices: Latin America & the Caribbean
Highlights from IWPR’s Consortium to Support Independent Journalism in Latin America (CAPIR).
News outlet Gato Encerrado revealed how El Salvador’s new interim president Claudia Juana Rodríguez de Guevara had received irregular payments from the city of San Salvador when her political ally and former leader Nayib Bukele served as mayor there. The story, the latest in a series of opaque dealings that have emerged between Bukele and the person he nominated to run the country as he seeks reelection, sparked a huge reaction on social media and was quoted in the local and international press.
The Venezuelan Coalition to counter disinformation, C-Informa, published an investigation showing the extent of gender disinformation in the race to elect an opposition candidate for the presidency. Their story demonstrated how the three women in the primary race received 70 per cent of the disinformation attacks.
An investigation supported by our grants revealed how the Colombian paramilitary group ELN has taken total control of Venezuelan communities in the border provinces of Táchira and Apure. The group, linked to drug trafficking and illegal mining, has replaced government services - and even controls local churches - using violence, fear and humilliation.
Meanwhile, CAPIR beneficiary Poplab published an article showing how the government of the Mexican state of Guanajuato has financed the church to run social programmes with no requirements for accountability despite several cases of sexual abuse and violence against women and children and attempts to evangelise vulnerable populations in what are legally mandated secular activities.
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