Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

Cuba’s Yulieski Gourriel, of Cuba’s Industriales baseball team, will soon join the Japanese Baseball League (NPB). He is the second active Cuban league baseball player to sign with a…
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"It is time to begin a new chapter in U.S.-Cuba relations," said Thomas J. Donohue, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, addressing students, academicians and other guests at the…
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The Cuban General Customs Agency issued the following announcement in Spanish on Thursday (May 28). Because it affects many Cuban-Americans traveling to their homeland, Progreso Semanal…
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Another week, another murderous rampage. This time, once again, it happened at a school, specifically a university. It took place in what the media describe as the "scenic" and…
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David Beckham's proposed soccer stadium - in the last open space in downtown Miami - is wrong because it insults any sense of smart urban design in contemporary times by deferring to a…
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Sunday’s political landslide in the French elections was human-made and predictable. What is shocking news is that a highly scoring, and even domineering, National Front has come to be…
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Maya Angelou, the esteemed poet, writer, and actress died Wednesday (May 28) in her Winston-Salem home. The literary giant, most known for her autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird…
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The Dreamers, those undocumented youths intent on pursuing their dreams, continue to give us much to talk about. Surveys also tell us that if politicians want to know how to attract the…
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It would not be unreasonable to speculate that the U.S. is inviting a third party -- or even a mediator -- into the Gross quandary. Just recently the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported…
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An independent company hired by Washington made a wrong estimate of the technically recoverable oil in the nation's largest shale field, situated in Monterey, Calif. That wrong estimate…
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