Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

Manuel Ramy interviews Prof. Jesús Arboleya who states, among many other things, that investment by Cuban-Americans in Cuba provides an economic foundation for people-to-people contact.…
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If a "have" laughs at a "have-not" and despises him, we say that the person is arrogant and not high-minded, even if he or she wears elevated shoes. If we see more and more people…
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When the Revolution triumphed, Cuba had more heads of cattle than inhabitants. Research done back then showed that a high percentage of the Cuban population did not consume beef.
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Rep. Wasserman Schultz should be ashamed of her demagoguery. Comparing the Holocaust and Cuba is insensitive and opportunistic. As for the deadly disease that affects so many in her…
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Since its inception, the promise of paradise is the story of Miami. Founded in 1896, Miami by the 1920s had already experienced a frenzied real estate boom fueled by that promise…
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Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist has lined up a fundraising chief for what increasingly seems like an inevitable gubernatorial comeback bid in 2014.
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Enrique Kiki Camarena was not murdered by Rafael Caro Quintero — the capo that served a sentence for that crime — but by an agent of the CIA. Former federal U.S. agents point to a…
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In an address delivered July 7 but publicized this week by Cubadebate, economics czar Marino Murillo said that Cuba is not turning its state-owned-and-managed property into private…
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Chris Matthews stated something very plainly on the Rachel Maddow Show recently. Matthews didn’t hold back when he said it was “hatred,” not politics, that’s fueling such intense…
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Not even Republicans would be dumb enough to risk the economic consequences if the U.S., for the first time in history, did not pay its bills. Warnings of the mess that would result…
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