Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

President Obama can deliver a speech. He did not disappoint during his sixth State of the Union address. Pundits called it a center-left speech using center-right language.
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When Pete Seeger died Monday at the age of 94, remembrances of him, unsurprisingly, focused less on his music than on his social activism. And It's not that Seeger did a lot of good…
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Cuba has expelled a Russian extremist sought for advocating violence against ethnic minorities and leading an organization of gay-bashers.
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Excerpts from the speech by Raúl Castro inaugurating the second Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) summit held in Havana, Cuba.
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Cuba's government has unilaterally taken action against global terrorism. This step deserves a positive response by the United States.
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The U.S. has the worst level of economic inequality since the Great Depression, whereby 400 families earn the same as 1/2 of persons with the lowest income.
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Cristina Fernández de Kirchner shared luncheon with Fidel Castro on Sunday (Jan. 26). Fernández commented only that the visit had gone "Well, very well."
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We’ve seen the signs, but Washington does not seem to go beyond public statements, including the appeal made by President Obama himself to be creative and update the policy toward Cuba.…
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The Russian press is reporting that Martsinkevich will be expelled from Cuba on the grounds that he carried no identification papers and had not notified the Russian Consulate in Havana…
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Ted Piccone of the Brookings Institute urges President Obama to double down on his 2009 decision easing the flow of people, remittances and exchanges from the U.S. to Cuba.
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