Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

Long a political land mine, normalizing U.S. relations with Cuba may be developing momentum, says Tom Hayden in an opinion piece written for the Los Angeles Times. Part of the reason…
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Magnet schools have helped some children to not limit their education to the immediate surroundings of their neighborhood. The results were very different from those expected.
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Cuba's criminal laws will have to be updated along with the economy to deal with "new risks associated with these transformations," Cuba's news agency reports.
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The newspaper Granma published an interview with Ramón Sánchez-Parodi Montoto, former director of the Cuban Interests Section in Washington (1977-1989), vice minister of Foreign…
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The creator of The Wire, David Simon, delivered an impromptu speech about the divide between rich and poor in America and how capitalism has lost sight of its social compact.
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Thousands of Cubans living in the U.S. realized that this time -- again -- the blockade against Cuba is not only against its government but also against the citizens on both sides of…
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Excerpts from press "gaggle" aboard U.S. One, as Obama returned from South Africa on Tuesday. Meeting with reporters was Ben Rhodes.
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One of the bonuses of being elderly is the experience of seeing history unfold before one's eyes. So the formal greeting between Obama and Raúl Castro did not surprise me in the least.
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Presidents Obama and Castro shook hands and smiled at each other at FNB Stadium in Johannesburg during a ceremony celebrating the life of Nelson Mandela.
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President Barack Obama bounded up the stairs to the stage at FNB stadium in Johannesburg to pay tribute to Nelson Mandela. The first person he saw was Cuban President Raul Castro. Obama…
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