Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

There was a time in America when the Irish were characterized as apes, Italians as street filth, and Chinese as parasitic locusts.
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For a country of under 50 million citizens, these numbers are staggering, and certainly newsworthy, but apparently not for our mainstream media.
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It’s not surprising that police unions everywhere are fighting the move to place cameras on officers’ uniforms. Every action taken by that officer on the street would be recorded for…
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Thanksgiving Day
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A project has been started in Chile to prohibit the naming of streets or public places after the late President Augusto Pinochet or any of his aides.
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When it comes to economic policy, the ideas of the public can matter a lot. Elected governments have to worry about being re-elected, and this is certainly the case in Venezuela, where…
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The project "Marks of memory," by the Brazilian Ministry of Justice, has arrived in Havana. The initiative reviews what happened in that country beginning with the military coup that in…
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The Spanish-language production of Rent in Havana will feature a full cast of musicians and performers.
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The Spanish foreign minister's recent statement that he would bring 'concrete messages' from the US government to Havana has some Republicans speculating that President Obama is looking…
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There is euphoria in the immigrant community and with good reason. But there's also the danger that, in the midst of jubilation, we might forget that more than half of the undocumented…
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