The US government has doubled down on its economic restrictions against Cuba, arguing they only affect the country’s leadership—not everyday citizens. But human rights groups say these sanctions hurt regular people by making food, medicine, and electricity harder to get. The UN recently joined the c
On a warm May afternoon, nearly a million Cubans marched through Havana’s waterfront streets with one clear message: they won’t back down under U. S. pressure. Among them was 94-year-old Raul Castro, a former president and the last of the revolution’s original leaders still in public life. The march
Imagine trying to rebuild a place that's been destroyed by a war that's been going on for over a year. That's the challenge facing Gaza right now. The United Nations says it could take a whopping 350 years to get Gaza's economy back to where it was before this latest conflict started. The war has ca
