Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

Bob Menendez is under investigation for his advocacy on behalf of 2 Ecuadorian bankers convicted of embezzlement. But there was someone else helping out.
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The BBC reported on the results of the WIN/Gallup International poll on the question: “Which country do you think is the greatest threat to peace in the world today?” The winner got…
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Uri Dromi is puzzled. Dromi, an Israeli whose invariably pro-Israel columns are a regular feature of the Miami Herald seems puzzled. He is dismayed by the evidence of the low regard in…
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The permanent ambassadors from the 28 European Union nations on Wednesday (Feb. 5) approved a mandate to negotiate a bilateral agreement with Cuba, EU sources said.
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From the iPhone 5S to corporate globalization, modern life is full of evidence of Marx's foresight, says Sean McElwee in an article written for Rolling Stone. Adding that Marx was wrong…
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The whole of Latin America considers unjust and inefficient the isolation and siege to which Cuba has been subjected for decades by the United States' successive administrations.
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Beginning this Monday (Feb. 3), Cuba will launch a national campaign -- both educational and diagnostic -- to raise awareness of and treat cancer of the skin, a condition that mostly…
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76-year-old Alfonso Fanjul has begun to reassess old grievances and tentatively eye Cuba as a place for him and other U.S. businessmen to expand their enterprises. He has started…
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The United States has halted all economic aid to Bolivia, because that country expelled representatives of the USAID last May. That aid amounted to about $40 million a year when Evo…
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Sen. Marco Rubio’s political stock is rated a buy by major Republican fundraisers in Washington. Political strategists think his chances are looking better because of the bridge scandal…
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