Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

Tired of waiting for the end of communism in Cuba, more and more Cuban-Americans have concluded that it is time for the United States to allow more engagement with the island they left…
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Remember Babel? "Let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven And the Lord said, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand…
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Proclaiming that the doctrine of American exceptionalism emerged dramatically alongside U.S. policy toward Cuba, we reproduce the presentation given by historian Jane Franklin during…
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The use of cyberspace and the social communication networks to infiltrate and destabilize societies and governments was denounced Sunday (June 15) by the Group of 77+China at its summit…
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Cuban President Raúl Castro took to task the world's largest financial institutions for not doing enough to help the developing countries and urged the creation of regional banks that…
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Text of speech by Raúl Castro yesterday (June 14) in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, as published in Juventud Rebelde and translated by Progreso Weekly.
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Subhash Kateel, who occasionally writes for Progreso Weekly, wrote this piece for the BK Nation blog. Kateel welcomed a son to this world recently and is celebrating Fathers Day in his…
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A disgruntled state worker is a bigger problem for socialism than an ambitious small businessman, because in the former lies the essence of the system. Therefore, why should small and…
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Four people were found murdered in a seaside estate about 12 miles west of Havana, and six people are arrested, the Cuban Interior Ministry revealed Wednesday (June 11).
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The amateur in extremis carries a ball between his ears. Rarely does he try to defend what he thinks because he is too nervous thinking about what he defends.
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