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Cuba-U.S.: Is it time for dialogue?
We’ve seen the signs, but Washington does not seem to go beyond public statements, including the appeal made by President Obama himself to be creative and update the policy toward Cuba.…
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Reach out to Cuba
Ted Piccone of the Brookings Institute urges President Obama to double down on his 2009 decision easing the flow of people, remittances and exchanges from the U.S. to Cuba.
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Cuban-Americans and the elusive ‘American Dream’
Among Latinos, no group may have achieved the American dream as fully as Cuban-Americans. But a new poll suggests that, for many Cuban-Americans, the dream is becoming elusive.
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Poll focuses on views from a wide array of Latino Americans
You've probably heard a lot about "the Latino voter" or the way companies are trying to win over "the Latino consumer." But let's say it one more time, anyway: Latinos are not…
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Memo: Kissinger gave the “green light” for Argentina’s Dirty War
In an article written for Mother Jones, David Korn says that Kissinger had told the Argentine generals to proceed with their terror campaign against leftists.
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When Martin Luther King gave up his guns
It took years of political evolution for King to understand nonviolence not merely as a moral force, but as an effective strategy for leveraging political change. Yet his embrace of…
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N. Carolina just gave millionaires a tax cut, raised taxes on the poorest
The 900,000 poorest working families in North Carolina just got another tax hike from the conservatives who swept state legislature elections in 2010.
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Kerry to Vatican: Help free Alan Gross
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday asked the Vatican to help win the release of a Jewish-American contractor Alan Gross who has been in a Cuban jail since 2009.
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Obama: The last lap
What grade does the Obama administration deserve from progressives as it enters the home stretch? Because Progreso Weekly columnist Max Castro believes Obama has failed to be a…
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A late Christmas present
On December 28, 1.3 million American workers got a late Christmas present from the federal government. Their unemployment benefits were cut off. And their monthly expenses exceed their…
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