Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

Just when the ice between the U.S. and Cuba seemed to be breaking, the OFAC has dumped on them a pail of cold water.
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"Who's influenced you the most in your life?" "My principal, Ms. Lopez." "How has she influenced you?" "When we get in trouble, she doesn't suspend us.
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Alan Gross made news on Capitol Hill today, only no one seems to have taken notice. He submitted written remarks to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs for its hearing titled…
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Black bear attacks are on the rise in Florida, prompting the state to contemplate how to keep the growing population in check. The government may remove a 20-year ban on hunting the…
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Groundhog day
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Some worried House Republicans have scheduled a hearing today on the Obama administration's "sudden shift on Cuba policy." They have it almost exactly backward: The change in policy has…
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Roberta Jacobson, the top U.S. diplomat for Latin America, told a hostile House Foreign Affairs Committee in Washington, DC, on Wednesday that the Obama administration had ruled out…
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Excerpts from interview with Josefina Vidal Ferreiro, Cuba's chief delegate to the diplomatic talks between Cuba and the United States, broadcast over Cuban television on Feb. 2, 2015.
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Excerpts from testimony by Roberta S. Jacobson, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday.
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Across the Americas, an unprecedented debate on drug policy reform is underway.
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