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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com If you are one of the 836,000 unemployed people in Florida, you are out of luck and very likely out of bucks too. At a time when multiple…
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Al’s Loupe A presidential election reminiscent of 2000 By Alvaro F. Fernandez alvaro@progresoweekly.com About two months left for Election Day. Are you registered to vote? It…
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From Cuban Americans for Engagement (CAFE) To the Republican and Democratic National Committees: In light of both the upcoming Republican and Democratic conventions we, as Cuban…
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By M.S. Bellows Jr. From The Guardian (Progreso Editor’s Note: This is an abridged version of a much longer piece that appeared in the British newspaper The Guardian.) There…
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By Danny Glover and Saul Landau People stop in Victorville California 85 miles northeast of Los Angeles because they have to see someone at one of its several prisons (federal, state,…
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By Bill Press Scary things sometimes come in pretty packages. Take Paul Ryan. Most members of the media have a man-crush on him. When he released his 2012 budget, the New York Times…
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By Aurelio Pedroso HAVANA – What’s happening right now in Cuba is reminiscent of an episode from the well-known Paris Commune. This, after saving everything that should be…
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By Jesús Arboleya Cervera HAVANA – The selection of Paul Ryan as the Republican candidate to the Vice Presidency of the United States gives continuity to the strategy followed by that…
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Between bureaucrats and brutocrats By Manuel Alberto Ramy HAVANA – Last May, Cuban Erick Hernández set a Guinness record when he kicked a soccer ball for 12 hours and 5 minutes…
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By Paul West From the Los Angeles Times (Editor’s Note: The Republican Convention begins next week in Tampa. Cuba seems a small priority on the GOP’s platform. But we…
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