Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

Unicef report finds number of children entering poverty during global recession is 2.6 million greater than number lifted out of it.
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Our country’s oldest and longest struggle has been to enlarge democracy by making it possible for more and more people to be treated equally at the polls. The right to participate in…
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A 10-foot increase in sea level would essentially render all of South Florida, from Naples on the west coast to Ft. Lauderdale in the east, under water.
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Cuba has allowed construction of the country's first new Catholic church in 55 years, the church said Monday. Experts said it's a sign of improving relations between the Vatican and…
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The Miami Nice Jazz Festival and Olympia Theater present ROBERTO FONSECA and his trio in concert for the opening of 2014 Miami Nice Jazz Festival. Doors open at 7am.
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Uruguay's departing president defines himself as 'the world's poorest president' and recommends that politicians must 'live like the majority of the people.' He says the search for…
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Dilma Rousseff has won the Brazilian presidential elections receiving 51.45 percent of the vote. Aecio Neves, her rival, garnered 48.55 percent, a difference of two million votes.
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Within this context, the U.S.’s elected officials seem to be the party generating a narrative that doesn’t match the evidence provided by the American public: widespread skepticism of…
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Americans forfeit more vacation days according to how much they make, according to an analysis by the US Travel Association.
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Politics aside, the issue remains deeply personal for the holdouts, Cuban-Americans of that generation say, because it continues to evoke raw feelings about ancestry, homeland and loss.…
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