Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

Few realized when the group of U.S. film producers, screen writers and directors slipped in. They didn't make a triumphant entrance. They simply entered a private hall and gradually…
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The last year has been better, magically better than the previous and quite painful 55. That alone is something worth celebrating. So, on Thursday night, raise a glass, have a mojito,…
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So the Venezuelan political system, with all its flaws, is much more democratic than the conventional wisdom has maintained. Now, what about the future?
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If there is a Plan B for the Cuban authorities it may be found in the same strongbox where President Raúl Castro kept the secret negotiations with the United States before the…
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Cuba on Tuesday returned to the U.S. a man sought in Iowa on felony firearms charges who had fled to Cuba. He also faces charges in South Florida of stealing a motor boat to travel to…
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The Florida legislature instantly qualified for the hottest ring of hell when in 2011 it passed a law that transformed the state’s Children’s Medical Services program from one based on…
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First obvious reflection: If Venezuela is a dictatorship, how come the opposition won?
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There is talk of a new type of terrorist -- raised in this country and therefore hard to detect but "radicalized" and who acts in the name of foreign foes.
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Every night, before turning off the bedside lamp in the hostel where she has been sleeping for the past 20 days, Sofía rekindles her hopes, thinking that soon she will embrace Gaby,…
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