Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

300 rabbis sent a letter to President Barack Obama urging him to take action to secure the immediate release of Alan Gross. Due to health issues, the rabbis stress that Gross’s…
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Beginning as early as October 2009, a project overseen by the U.S. Agency for International Development sent Venezuelan, Costa Rican and Peruvian young people to Cuba in hopes of…
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The Jabaliya strike has already opened Israel to a new level of global scrutiny. International criticism ratcheted up another notch on Sunday after a missile the Israelis say was meant…
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Gross said goodbye to his wife and youngest daughter during a recent visit. Gross, who lived in Maryland before his arrest, had previously told his two daughters not to come see him in…
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The media began to call her "the grand dame of the American left," and, certainly, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is attracting ever growing audiences with a speech that deals…
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After four years of unrelenting investigations, former U.S. Rep. David Rivera's fate in a criminal campaign finance probe could rest squarely on the shoulders of a woman who was his…
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'Guantanamera' was the first project that PFC attempted in Cuba. Others include the recording of another song and the construction of a school of music, both in the works. Ironically,…
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This man does everything from memory: as he chews a cigar, he sets up the second projector so that the spectators won't realize when the reels change, so that the movie won't "skip."
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Tangled thickets island nation's first line of defence against rising sea levels
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Very near the heart of downtown, where today rise the Brickell buildings, was the capital of the Tequesta Indians, the first inhabitants of Florida, whose settlements go back 1,700 and…
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