Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

The trajectory is unmistakable. Public opinion polls show that a majority of Cubans on the island and Americans favor engagement. Congress should wait no longer to do its part.
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The government of the Dominican Republic is in the early stages of carrying out a massive deportation of persons of Haitian descent, including not only immigrants but people born in the…
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Broadly speaking, there are three reasons why Minnesota legislators have been so active on Cuba politics, according to Eric Schwartz, dean of the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at…
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The Spanish Development Finance Institution (COFIDES) will open a 40-million-euro line of credit for Spanish firms doing businesses in Cuba. The line will be known as the Cuba Funding…
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Cardinal Jaime Ortega, Archbishop of Havana, has voiced surprise at the criticism he has received from anti-Castro groups outside and inside Cuba for a statement he made June 5 on…
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Legislation introduced earlier this month by Senator Marco Rubio (FL) – the Cuban Military Transparency Act – isn’t transparent at all.
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Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin said that he evaluates the convergence of Cuba and the United States as a positive step and welcomes the diplomatic thaw between the two countries.
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Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang will arrive in Cuba on June 25. From Havana, Wang will go on to Brasília, to attend a China-Brazil Coordination Committee meeting.
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Democracy Now interviews Miami writer Edwidge Danticat, a Haitian-American, on the deportation of hundreds of thousands of Dominicans of Haitian descent that some are calling "ethnic…
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The full text of the section on Cuba of the "Country Reports on Terrorism 2014 / State Sponsors of Terrorism Overview," was released Friday (June 19) by the U.S. State Department.
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