Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

Revelations made by The Washington Post give additional credibility to Cuba's complaint that Havana, in good faith, gave Washington information about right-wing terrorist groups in…
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Angelo Falcon, president of the National Institute for Latino Policy, discusses one of the most pressing issues being faced in the U.S. today - immigration reform. And he is not…
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As self-employment and cooperatives expand in socialist Cuba, they are making incursions into new areas, such as waste picking and recycling – for many a means of subsistence, but for…
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The laws inside Cuba define the way in which government and people are related, and in no way can those laws be shaken under pressure from abroad. That's precisely what the sinister…
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This time it didn't work. In fact, it failed miserably and the Republicans fell on their collective faces in front of the whole nation. It did "succeed" in a number of unintended ways,…
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“This is about something that can maybe save lives. This is about medicine … There are 70,000 amputations that happen yearly from diabetes,” U.S. Rep. Joe Garcia told the Miami Herald.…
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The newly enacted and long-awaited migration law was a great step for those of us who live in Cuba. It restored rights that we had missed, eliminated the exit permit and benefited the…
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The budget confrontation that led to a partial government shutdown dealt a major blow to the GOP’s image and has exposed significant divisions between tea party supporters and other…
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Cuba announced the start of a process to eliminate the dual currency system it has maintained since 1994. Monetary unification "will not solve ... all problems of the economy," said the…
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American tourism to Cuba — tightly restricted for more than 50 years — is on the upswing, a new report shows. But Americans are a trickle compared with the torrent of Canadians.
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