Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

"I think we have to look for a formula for the State not to pay for imported food what it can buy from its own farmers," says Eduardo Martínez, a peasant in Sancti Spíritus, Cuba. "How…
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The Trump administration’s new immigration proposal aims at maintaining the demographic predominance and cultural/linguistic monopoly of the fictitious “Anglo-Saxon” race. These new…
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The acute drought afflicting the island and its population is not news. But perhaps the real dimension of the problem has not been explained publicly to make people aware of the…
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To maintain better control over the work of "cuentapropistas" (self-employed entrepreneurs), the Cuban government has established new guidelines. According to official statistics, as of…
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The time has come for President Donald Trump to look in the mirror and say: “You’re fired!” Delusions of grandeur on this scale, distortions of reality of this magnitude, are typical of…
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The U.S. has become the equivalent of one of those Spanish language telenovelas, with a mix of Kerry Washington’s Amanda Pope in the TV series “Scandal,” and just a touch of the 1980s…
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Both Cuba and Russia have decided that, as long as U.S. President Donald Trump maintains a bellicose stance toward both countries, further attempts to improve relations with Washington…
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What Donald Trump and his followers hope to do is not necessarily turn back the clock to the 1950s, but rather restore a social order, value system and “real America” that they believe…
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In Miami, the hottest July on record that climate change is marching on Florida. Yet, state voters have twice elected a governor, Rick Scott, and may replace him with a man, Adam…
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