Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

Most everyone in the U.S. buys at Walmart, even though we know that the store chain is destroying this country's market. The company pays its employees so poorly that their salaries…
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Is the pot calling the kettle black? The U.S. and its allies have long been complicit in the manufacturing and use of biological and chemical weapons, yet has targeted other countries…
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Senators voting Wednesday to authorize a Syria strike received, on average, 83 percent more campaign financing from defense contractors than lawmakers voting against war.
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Earlier this week Secretary of State John Kerry labeled what is happening in Syria "a moral obscenity." Our caricaturist seems to think that moral obscenities abound - and not only in…
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President Obama announced Saturday that he’s seeking congressional authorization for a limited military strike against Syria over the Assad regime’s alleged use of chemical weapons…
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While veteran Industriales players prepare for a double-header in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Havana confirmed on Friday that there will also be celebrations in that capital for the 50th…
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Cuba's underground economy, the one that sells you everything, has become the job market of an indefinable portion of the 1 million "idles." Some are street vendors, selling what…
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Changes can be more effective than the police, says the writer while riding in a pedicab in a low-income Havana neighborhood where bedsheets dance a bolero on a clothesline and the odor…
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President Obama's announcement that he is launching a campaign to fight against the accelerating increase in the cost of college is welcome news. Today, too many can't afford the kind…
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In Miami-Dade County, it is usual for a corrupt mayor to be in the news, but in general the media don't show how the poor people's trailers are demolished after the tenants are evicted.
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