Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

One day -- so far unknown but probably closer than imagined -- will be "Day Zero" for the start of the process of monetary unification foretold in 2011 by the Guidelines for the…
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Lately things at the Herald seem to be getting worse. A decade ago, most of the worst offenses were limited to the pages of El Nuevo Herald. Nowadays the language divide is not longer a…
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Senator Isabel Allende, daughter of the late Chilean president Salvador Allende, on Tuesday transferred the presidential sash from the shoulders of departing President Sebastián Piñera…
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The chairwoman of the Senate intelligence committee, Dianne Feinstein, accused the CIA of a catalogue of cover-ups, intimidation and smears aimed at investigators probing their…
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On Saturday, March 1, the New York Times ran a graphic accompanying its article on Venezuela that showed an “implied inflation rate” of more than 300 percent. It was a statistic…
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Melba Hernandez, one of two women who helped Fidel Castro launch his revolution with a failed 1953 attack on a military barracks, and who was later named a “heroine of the Cuban…
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The Organization of American States (OAS) approved, in last Friday’s summit, a statement expressing solidarity and support for the Venezuelan government in light of recent events. 


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"President Nicolás Maduro so far has tried to distract his people from the more important issues that are at play in Venezuela by inventing totally false and extravagant conspiracies…
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Nicolás Maduro categorically rejected the statements made by Vice President Joe Biden claiming they constitute a disrespect to Venezuelan sovereignty and a direct attack on the…
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The willingness of the Cuban government to provide "social" access to the Internet returns to the public eye after the costs of navigating through cell phones are established. "It is…
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