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Al’s Loupe Message to The Miami Herald By Alvaro F. Fernandezalvaro@progreso-weekly.com I wonder why The Miami Herald often ignores Progreso Weekly/Semanal. Do they fear us? Or maybe…
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By Saul Landau TV showed seemingly interminable telephoto images of protestors against Mubarak’s dictatorship; then, of his thugs disguised as pro-government protestors. Suggesting…
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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com The power of the gun lobby in the United States -- and the determination of Republican politicians to coddle the National Rifle Association (NRA)…
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By Luis Sexto The current relations between the Cuban state and the Catholic Church seems to agree on an old adage: "Better to light a candle than curse the darkness," assuming that…
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By Jorge Piñon From The Miami Herald On June 3, 1979, Pemex's exploratory oil well Ixtoc I in Mexico's Bay of Campeche suffered a blowout resulting in what was at the time one of…
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By David Brooks From La Jornada It is said that some American politician, justifying Washington's support for dictators, declared that "Somoza is a son of a bitch, but he's our son…
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By Bill Press "It's 3 a.m. and your children are safe and asleep. But there's a phone in the White House and it's ringing. Something's happening in the world. Your vote will decide…
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By Jesús Arboleya Cervera According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Cuba has an oil reserve of 5 billion barrels in the vicinity of the northwestern coast and approximately 10…
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A reporter´s notebook Internet: “There´s no political obstacle” By Manuel Alberto Ramy ramymanuel@yahoo.com 8 February 2011. As I finished my previous blog, “A step towards…
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Will camels be withdrawn from the Havana zoo? Friday, 05 February 2011 By Aurelio Pedroso Violence in Egypt. The crowds demand that Hosni Mubarak stops ruling at once: thirty…
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