Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

There's a story in Cuba that in recent months has become a long telenovela. It has everything: jealousy, accusations, joys, deceit – and doesn't seem to run out of energy. It is the…
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Something unusual appears to be happening in Havana. The government may be backing off an unpopular economic crackdown barely a week after it was announced.
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PM Netanyahu is trying to throw a wrench into negotiations in Geneva between Iran and the P5+1 group of nations (the 5 permanent members of the UN Security Council + Germany) over…
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Comments of President Barack Obama on Friday November 8 in the house of Jorge Mas Santos and his wife, referring to the U.S. policy towards Cuba and other aspects of domestic policy…
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Cuba is going to have a new law on foreign investment, said Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla. The new law will take effect soon, Rodríguez said, without giving a specific date.…
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Between the lines, Obama's message was that "the Cuban problem must be solved by the Cubans, not by anyone else." Some aspects of Obama's visit to Miami have caught my attention.
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Whosoever wishes to discover how abject the use of the word “Cuba” for personal profit can be should work for a while close to the leaders of the historic exile. Most slap a title in…
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President Barack Obama said Friday in Miami that the United States must continue to update its policies toward Cuba. We have to be creative, he said during a fundraising event for the…
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Coast to coast, the dust has settled from last Tuesday's elections, and one thing is clear. Democrats won some, Republicans won some. There were winners and losers on both sides.
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Predicting a Venezuelan apocalypse won't make it happen: in this oil-rich country the only thing imploding is poverty.
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