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Uncomfortable questions
Cuba is that way, someone said, pointing to the sea. We were standing at the exact point that marks the 90 miles that separate one shore from the other.
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Cuba’s Yulieski Gourriel off to conquer Japan
Cuba’s Yulieski Gourriel, of Cuba’s Industriales baseball team, will soon join the Japanese Baseball League (NPB). He is the second active Cuban league baseball player to sign with a…
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Donohue: ‘We applaud and support your reforms’
"It is time to begin a new chapter in U.S.-Cuba relations," said Thomas J. Donohue, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, addressing students, academicians and other guests at the…
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Cuban Customs: Don’t carry parcels for others
The Cuban General Customs Agency issued the following announcement in Spanish on Thursday (May 28). Because it affects many Cuban-Americans traveling to their homeland, Progreso Semanal…
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Guns do kill people
Another week, another murderous rampage. This time, once again, it happened at a school, specifically a university. It took place in what the media describe as the "scenic" and…
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Conexión Miami / Taken for a ride, in a Cadillac
David Beckham's proposed soccer stadium - in the last open space in downtown Miami - is wrong because it insults any sense of smart urban design in contemporary times by deferring to a…
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A far-right, anti-immigrant party becomes France’s ‘new normal’
Sunday’s political landslide in the French elections was human-made and predictable. What is shocking news is that a highly scoring, and even domineering, National Front has come to be…
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The Dreamers and the elections
The Dreamers, those undocumented youths intent on pursuing their dreams, continue to give us much to talk about. Surveys also tell us that if politicians want to know how to attract the…
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Is U.S. turning to Israel for help with Gross?
It would not be unreasonable to speculate that the U.S. is inviting a third party -- or even a mediator -- into the Gross quandary. Just recently the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported…
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Venezuela in danger
An independent company hired by Washington made a wrong estimate of the technically recoverable oil in the nation's largest shale field, situated in Monterey, Calif. That wrong estimate…
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