Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

World affairs might be far-off talking points for most players, but the news of U.S.-Cuba diplomacy couldn’t be more personal for Abreu, Ramirez and their countrymen.
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When classical music rises this week from the annual Cubadisco festival, the most important gathering of the Cuban music industry, it will be the Minnesota Orchestra that first graces…
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A Chinese company and the Cuban government have signed a letter of intent to build a golf course and resort, official media said on Friday, with an apparent eye to the eventual lifting…
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Francis and Mr. Castro met privately for nearly an hour on Sunday morning, speaking in Spanish, before the Cuban leader left the Vatican to meet with the Italian prime minister, Matteo…
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Governor Rick Scott and conservative state lawmakers are finding that it’s not so easy to cover the poor without expanding Medicaid.
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The Vatican has offered little explanation for this Sunday's meeting between President Raul Castro and Pope Francis, apart from Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi's comment that it was…
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Russia today commemorated the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet people over German Nazism. In attendance were world leaders including Presidents Raúl Castro and Nicolas…
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The deputy chairman of the Russian Duma's Committee on Security said he does not rule out that Russia will reactivate the Lourdes electronic listening post in the Havana province.
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With the bulk of the embargo still codified by U.S. law, and with several other complex issues (property claims, the status of Guantánamo Bay, claims for damages caused by the embargo)…
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French President François Hollande will tour the Caribbean region until Tuesday, including a visit to Havana on Monday that is intended to give new impetus to the bilateral relations…
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