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Donate online to MEDICC’s HAITI EARTHQUAKE APPEAL. The effects of the disastrous earthquake in Haiti will be long term. That’s why MEDICC and Global Links (Pittsburgh, PA) are sending…
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By Max J. Castromajcastro@gmail.com It has been twelve months since Barack Obama assumed office on that frigid January 2009 in Washington D.C. How shall we judge the president's first…
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By Saul Landau and Nelson Valdes “If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine…
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MLK economics (Part 1 of 2) How Dr. King might have responded to current crises of recession, unemployment, and foreclosure By Mark Engler Martin Luther King, Jr. was working hard to…
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By Steve Clemons Washington (CNN) -- In Latin America, Cuba stands out as one of the most effective deployers of soft power. Rather than exporting revolution, Cuba today exports…
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By Varela It is said that history is first made as trauma and later repeated as a joke. In Miami, where everything is recycled, history always returns as tragicomedy and its…
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By Lorenzo Gonzalo Cuba's biggest problem with policies and regulations – both on immigration matters and in regulating the travel of Cubans abroad – lies mostly in Havana's habit of…
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Al’s Loupe S. Florida members of Congress: mediocre politicians; terrible human beings By Alvaro F. Fernandezalfernandez@the-beach.net Last week Progreso Weekly columnist Max Castro…
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‘We can open up, but not until we’re good and ready,’ says President-elect Pepe Mujica of Uruguay An interview with Hamlet Hermann By Elíades Acosta Matos Nobody would believe…
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Haitians are tiring of waiting for help. At least it’s what I see coming from so many fronts. The U.S. seems to have taken over the country and serves as a buffer as to what…
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