Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

It is fitting that the U.S. government shut down a year to the day of the inauguration of Donald Trump. The Trump administration and its Republican accomplices in Congress have been…
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A Höegh Autoliners cargo ship on Friday offloaded 320 Lada Vesta and 24 Lada Largus Cross cars of Russian manufacture in the port of Havana. All cars are painted in bright yellow and…
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Cuba has filled a key diplomatic post with the appointment of Gerardo Peñalver Portal as ambassador to the Russian Federation. Peñalver submitted his credentials on Wednesday (Jan. 17)…
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Often, talking about Cuba's economy and daily problems someone asks, "Well, how's the situation?" to which I --more practical than optimistic -- always respond "How do YOU see it?"…
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It’s time the news media called President Donald Trump's behavior for what it is rather than try to normalize it. Words matter. It’s important to describe Trump accurately. Every…
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Apologists for the president will cite studies that show everyone lies every day. Yes, but Trump’s lies are different: they are not common lies about things such as why you didn’t turn…
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In December 2017, the Trump administration released its National Security Strategy. In it Donald Trump expresses a return to the idea of "preserving peace through strength," which…
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Monday, Jan.15, we celebrate the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the United States. We bring our readers one of Dr. King's speeches delivered at the National Cathedral,…
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More than a fifth of Trump’s condominiums in the U.S. have been purchased since the 1980s in secretive cash transactions that fit a Treasury Department definition of suspicious…
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