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Shameless in Miami
In his brief visit to Miami last week, Donald Trump pulled out of the bag of made-for-Miami Republican card tricks the most worn-out one. The Cuba card. He promised to take us back to…
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U.S. reveals and shares dark secrets with southern nations
The Obama administration has been declassifying state secrets and sharing them with selected Latin American governments, The Washington Post disclosed Sunday. The purpose, says the…
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Public ignorance and media pseudo-objectivity enable Trump’s lies
Elections decided by deception and mass delusion, accepted by the media as plausible, can produce tragedies the consequences of which can last decades. “I would urge journalists to ask…
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RESPECT: A new association whose mission is ‘responsible and ethical’ travel to Cuba
A new association called RESPECT is in the process of being formed. Its mission is “responsible and ethical travel to Cuba." Progreso Weekly is part of this initial effort. We share…
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Trump and Peña Nieto clash on the wall issue
Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, said the president of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto, lied about the border wall during the meeting both held in Mexico City on August…
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U.S.-Cuba negotiating historic oil-spill treaty
The U.S. is working towards creating a joint clean-up agreement with Cuba in the case of an oil spill in the Gulf. Earlier this year it presented the Cuban government with a joint…
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‘The humiliation is now complete’
Mexicans across the board were really, really mad because their president, Enrique Peña Nieto, stood by silently, impassive, neither denouncing the idea of a wall nor demanding an…
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The end of the charters?
On Wednesday, JetBlue passenger planes will fly from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to Santa Clara in central Cuba, symbolically cutting the ribbon that re-starts the scheduled flights between…
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Zika crisis grows so members of Congress decide to go on vacation
Republicans in Congress are once again playing the extortion game with Obama by refusing to fund the administration’s $1.1 billion request to fight Zika unless a provision aimed at…
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Contact, conversation make a big difference when dealing with Cuba
Cuba is a great place to go: to learn, exchange, make friends, make progress and make bigger plans - so long as you can set the tropes aside, and come with ears to hear.
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