Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

Cuba and the Paris Club of wealthy creditor nations are working to resume talks over billions of dollars of official debt in a new sign the communist government is interested in…
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Like any other study, this survey by the Pew Research Center is likely to be debated, even rebutted. The data, to be fair, could be superficial. Some wiseguy might ask: What's the use…
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Cuban President Raúl Castro met Sunday (April 20) in Havana with China's foreign minister, Wang Yi, in an encounter described by state-run television as an expression of "the excellent…
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A delegation of Russian senators, members of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly, was scheduled to arrive in Havana Saturday (April 19) for a week of meetings with top Cuban…
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Last week, the John F. Kennedy Library marked the 53rd anniversary of the Bay of Pigs invasion, a CIA covert operation with the goal of overthrowing the Castro government. No wonder…
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The first time Gabriel García Márquez heard the name of Fidel Castro was in 1955. Then in 1959 he helped found the Prensa Latina agency. Since then, his relationship with Cuba and Fidel…
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The Cuban government went on record this week to warn all levels of its import structure that it will not permit mismanagement in Havana's dealings with Moscow.
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Gabriel García Márquez, the famed Colombian novelist who died April 17, 2014, played a fascinating cameo role in the story of the Cuban Five. In the spring of 1998, he carried a secret…
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will pay visits to Cuba, Venezuela, Argentina and Brazil from April 19 to 26. The visit aims to advance China's relations with Latin American nations.
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As Jeb Bush travels the country espousing his family’s “compassionate conservative” side, the fact is that his carefully manicured words are just part of a much larger, national agenda…
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