Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

Oscar Hijuelos, a Cuban-American novelist who wrote about the lives of immigrants adapting to a new culture and became the first Latino to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his…
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Sociologist Aurelio Alonso, perhaps the best Cuban specialist on Church-State relations, answers in writing some questions about the thematic lines and the context of the Cuban…
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There are theories that the Cuban archipelago was part of the submerged and mythical Atlantis or broke away from the Yucatán peninsula, where the mega-meteorite that caused the…
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If the United States is the paradise of civil rights and material prosperity, how could it be that every day thousands and thousands of young people want to escape through drugs?
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Yadira Escobar interviews Maria Rodriguez, executive director of the Florida Immigrant Coalition (FLIC), who has worked to defend basic human rights of low-income and migrant peoples…
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Can moral damage to people and society be repaired? asks Manuel Ramy. But “to repair a car or a truck you need oxygen, acetylene, sheet metal, welders' sticks of various calibers,…
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Three years ago, oil giant BP created one of the worst environmental catastrophes in history when one of its wells gushed hundreds of millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.…
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There can be no negotiations until the government is open and until Republicans raise the debt ceiling and end the possibility of default, said President Obama. Adding, negotiating…
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Carville and Greenberg have released data from the latest survey by Democracy Corps and Women’s Voices Women Vote Action Fund — and the numbers aren’t good for the GOP.
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Progreso Weekly translates the official announcement of Lázaro Barredo's release from duty, which appeared today (Oct. 9) on Page One of Granma.
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