Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

In 1881, the Motembo mines began to produce petroleum and asphalt, so much asphalt that, according to urban legends in Cuba and New York, many of the streets in the Big Apple were…
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The people's criticism thermometer has risen a lot higher than at other times in the revolutionary process and the time has come to impose the rules and standards necessary for…
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Let’s agree that it’s difficult to trust Hillary Clinton. And it’s not easy to like her. But it's even scarier to come to terms with the thoughts and ideas being spewed - on a daily…
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Producing sugar has a lot in common with executing a good double play in baseball. During the 2015-2016 sugar harvest, only two Cuban provinces, Sancti Spíritus and Ciego de Ávila,…
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This isn’t a column about Mr. Trump and the people who are O.K. with anything he says or does. It is, instead, about Republicans — probably a minority within the party, but a…
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We know it is now one week old. But the First Lady's speech at the Democratic National Convention was probably the finest among a group of very fine speakers. It's worth listening to -…
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Veterans of Foreign Wars, one of the largest and oldest veteran’s organization in American history, has just publicly called out Donald Trump for his calloused comments towards the…
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The DNC computer hacking by the Russians is serious. It is one more reason to consider its implications for U.S. regime change policies toward Cuba.
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Washington has taken steps to encourage orderly migration from Central America, but it remains unwilling to update the misguided policy for Cubans.
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