Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

Menéndez, born in Oakland, Calif., has been living in Cuba and working in Cuban music since the mid-1960s. He is the only North American who has been a part of the last 30-plus years of…
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Fernando Gonzalez says that one of the most positive signs he's seen is former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton's statement in a recent book that she recommended that President Barack…
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The Palestinian Authority announced on Thursday that the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, devastated by the most recent Israeli bombing campaign, will cost nearly $8 billion and would…
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The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, said Thursday (Sept. 4) that "there is no legal reason" to prevent Cuba from attending the…
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The Ice Bucket Challange by Uruguayan President Pepe Mujica
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The number of Somalians who need urgent lifesaving humanitarian assistance has increased by 20 percent since January of this year.
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Panama's Foreign Minister, Isabel Saint Malo, met in Washington on Wednesday (Sept. 3) with José Miguel Insulza, secretary general of the Organization of American States (OAS) to make…
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The Russian media are giving prime display to the statements given this week by Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro and Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in support of Russia and…
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The latest horror story to be made public, involving the deadly gassing of an inmate at the Franklin Correctional Institution in northern Florida, tops them all...
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To those of us who are not specialists in the problems of the Middle East, the appearance of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) was a real surprise.
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