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By Danny Glover and Saul Landau We wait with a Latina woman and two of her kids until the prison guard at the entrance desk calls our number. We pass through the X-ray machine and get…
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By Guillermo Rodríguez Rivera HAVANA – There are some who describe them as a comedy, because they are elections dominated by a single party, something that can create a unanimity whose…
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By Gerardo Arreola From the Mexican newspaper La Jornada HAVANA – Cuba this year launches two of its most ambitious economic reform plans: a kind of market bubble with state-run…
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From Prensa Latina HAVANA (Jan. 9) - Just five days before new immigration changes take effect regarding the flow of Cubans to and from the country, local authorities are providing…
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By Mark Weisbrot From The Guardian Imagine that you went to see the Steven Spielberg movie Lincoln, and all you got was the viewpoint of Southern white slaveholders during the…
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By Joseph Stiglitz From Project Syndicate NEW YORK – In the shadow of the euro crisis and America’s fiscal cliff, it is easy to ignore the global economy’s long-term problems.…
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By the Progreso Weekly staff Richard Blanco, a gay 44-year-old Cubanamerican, was chosen by President Barack Obama to read a poem during the presidential inauguration on January 21.…
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It’s been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. So I’ll let the illustration say it all. And all in 25 words. Alvaro F. Fernandez
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By Scott Wilson From The Washington Post President Obama on Monday will nominate former Nebraska senator Chuck Hagel as secretary of defense and counterterrorism adviser John O.…
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Summary of a conversation/interview between Francisco Aruca, director of Radio Progreso Alternativa, and Manuel Alberto Ramy, correspondent in Havana for that outlet and Progreso…
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