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Happy New Year
To all our readers, Progreso Weekly wishes you a Happy 2017. We take this opportunity to thank you for your loyalty. We have been on vacation this past week and will be back from this…
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Czech member of Parliament to Cuba: Add cigars to shipment of rum
In a novel way to settle a foreign debt, Cuba has offered to pay the Czech Republic with 276 million dollars worth of rum and pharmaceutical drugs, Czech deputy finance minister Lenka…
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Trump mute after campaign co-chair launches racist rant at first family
You have your racists. Then you have your RACISTS. You have your mean-spirited people. Then you have your real MEAN-SPIRITS. Then you have one Carl Paladino, who just put himself on a…
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Economist’s advice to Czechs: Take the Cuban rum and sell it
PROBLEM: What should the Czech government do with the 23 million bottles of rum that Cuba is offering as payment for its $276-million debt? There's an easy answer...
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Republicans: The unbearable lightness of being
For a generation, the Republican party has thrived despite, or because of, two kinds of lightness: the lack of weight of their ideas and the lily-white complexion of their leaders and…
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It wasn’t the Russians: Hillary lost because she blew off Sanders and his voters
That the election went Trump’s way because several tens of thousands of voters in a few states switched away from Clinton to Trump because of an alleged Russian “hack” is based on a…
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This is how tyranny begins
A president intent on developing a base of enthusiastic supporters who believe boldface lies poses a clear threat to American democracy. It’s no coincidence that Donald Trump continues…
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Rogue president naming dangerous cabinet members
Donald Trump’s picks so far indicate he will be surrounded by the richest cabinet ever. This is one of the early signs of what we knew all along, that Trump’s endless talk about “taking…
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Trump’s possible Cuba policy doesn’t look good
Donald Trump wants to hire a known racist to head the attorney general’s office; a climate change denier to head the Environmental Protection Agency; and a surgeon to head housing; and…
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Bernie’s Party?
The silence of Hillary Clinton in the process of electing a new chair leads this Reader Supported News writer to believe that Bernie Sanders is now the de facto leader of the Democratic…
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