Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. There was very good news and very  bad news in the United States the last few days.
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U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker will be in Havana Oct. 6-7, becoming the second U.S. Cabinet official to visit Cuba since President Obama called for the reestablishment of…
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Presidents Raul Castro and Barack Obama met on Tuesday on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. It is the first meeting on U.S. soil between a Cuban and…
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Cuban President spoke at the UN General Assembly on Monday (Sept. 28) where he addressed such issues as the human rights, hunger and poverty, wars, the environment and other pertinent…
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Presidents Raúl Castro of Cuba and Barack Obama of the United States will hold bilateral talks at the United Nations on Tuesday. A brief encounter between the Cuban president and his…
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Excerpts from speech delivered Monday (Sept. 28) at the United Nations General Assembly by President Barack Obama.
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If only they didn't have fear in their eyes, if they didn't eat so stealthily, if they didn't clutch their few belongings so tightly, the dozens of people who stepped down from the 9…
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With incredible elegance and subtlety, Pope Francis left no stone standing on his journey to Washington and New York.
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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Friday launched the U.S.-Cuba Business Council (USCBC), "a formal commitment by the American business community to build a strong and strategic…
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Remarks by Raúl Castro Ruz, President of the Councils of State and Ministers of the Republic of Cuba, in his address to the United Nations Summit for the Adoption of the Post-2015…
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