Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

The Guyana Rice Development Board says it will be exporting approximately 7,500 tons of white rice to Cuba. The deal is the first part of an existing contract between Guyana and Cuba…
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The Finnish government has agreed to indemnify one of six Cuban volleyball players who were arrested and tried last year on charges of raping a Finnish woman. Luis Tomás Sosa Sierra,…
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Former Hall of Fame football player Shannon Sharpe had a different take on the reaction of NFL owners and players to President Trump calling the players sons of bitches and ordering…
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Donald Trump is the supreme destabilizer in the world today, following in the footsteps and outdoing his destabilizing GOP predecessors George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan. He is George…
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Even if Republicans eliminated everything else in the federal budget – from education to Meals on Wheels – they wouldn’t have nearly enough to pay for tax cuts of the magnitude…
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Bernie Sanders' address at Westminster College in Missouri was a historic renunciation of U.S. foreign policy and military might on which it is based since World War II. It was nothing…
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A total of 12 heads of state from the Caribbean and Latin America, Africa and Asia demanded the lifting of the economic, commercial and financial siege on the Caribbean island on the…
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The United Nations is no longer the place where to listen to great statesmen. The pattern of world politics is the lack of soaring ideas and the lack of valor in expressing them. But…
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A 747 loaded with relief materials and aid arrived in Cuba on Friday from China to help with recovery following Hurricane Irma. The flight contained 86 tons of relief materials. More…
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Each crisis situation promotes opportunism, speculation and an ugly display of human misery. But in order to survive and grow, we'll have to watch out for those slip-ups that empower…
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