Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

Mariana Gaston is a retired New York city teacher and a relentless activist for better public schools. For decades she has advocated and worked to change U.S. policy towards Cuba. She…
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Dark Capital is a big reason there is never enough tax revenue around to rebuild infrastructure, to reinvent industry, to bear the cost of transitioning to a green energy paradigm, and…
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Far from being politics as usual, Marco Rubio's defeat last week at the hands of a Senate disinterested in voting on his amendment is emblematic of a sea-change as the country…
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Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's impeachment campaign — which the government has correctly labelled a coup — is an effort by Brazil’s traditional elite to obtain by other means what…
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Bernie Sanders released his 2014 tax returns, highlighting the disparity of wealth between the Vermont senator and his opponent, Hillary Clinton. In 2014, Sen. Sanders’ household…
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The Seventh Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba will be held this weekend and its importance has escaped no one. It will be the last one presided by the historical generation of…
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Miami Herald columnist Fabiola Santiago wants to travel to Cuba. She’s decided the best way to get there is on a Carnival cruise ship leaving Miami in May. There's a hitch: As a Cuban…
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What's interesting about politics is that, by changing some words, people can claim advances without ever changing anything. Point in fact: one year and three months after Dec. 17,…
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That sorry bunch, the Cuban Mafia or the Cuban Con Artists, call them what you will, were left out of the conversation because their intention was to prevent any conversation, or even…
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