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In Cuba, new transportation minister faces tough challenges
Cuba's minister of Transportation, César Ignacio Arocha Macid, has been replaced by Adel Yzquierdo Rodríguez, the current First Vice Minister of the Economy and Planning.
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Díaz-Canel shares thoughts with journalists in China
While in Beijing last week, Cuban Vice President Miguel Díaz-Canel gave an interview to the Spanish edition of The People's Daily. Progreso Weekly has translated some excerpts.
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A crisis of public morality, not private morality
At a time many Republican presidential candidates and state legislators are focusing on private morality – what people do in their bedrooms, contraception, abortion, gay marriage –…
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An unprecedented dialogue: A Cuban academician, a U.S. politician and a Catholic spokesman
Jesús Arboleya, Scott Hamilton, and Orlando Marquéz express their opinions and paint a very infrequent image that represent a positive metaphor for today's times.
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Díaz-Canel meets with North Korean president
Kim Jong Un, North Korea's supreme leader, met in Pyongyang with Cuban Vice President Miguel Díaz-Canel, reported the website Cubadebate.
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Florida’s GOP-led legislature: They lie, they cheat, they govern
Politicians, advertisers, con men--among others--often employ such lies, but Florida's Republicans have done them all one better by committing all three at the same time and turning…
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Definitions of insanity on a ‘Take out the garbage day’
President Obama has to renew the embargo under TWEA, so he can keep the power to continue watering it down. Now that's a Catch-22.
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Cuba’s health diplomacy in the age of Ebola
With today's news that Cuban doctors and other health workers who defected while abroad on state-sponsored missions can return to the homeland, Progreso Weekly publishes a November 2014…
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Doctors who defected can return to Cuba, health ministry says
Cuban doctors and other health workers who defected while abroad on state-sponsored missions can return to the homeland and resume their careers without fear of retribution, the Cuban…
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Cuban entrepreneurs now can get loans without collateral
Self-employed entrepreneurs can apply to the People's Savings Bank of Cuba for loans of as much as 10,000 Cuban pesos (377 dollars at the current rate of exchange), the AIN news agency…
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