Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

By Juliette Kayyem From The Boston Globe BOSTON - Since the attacks on the Boston Marathon, and the investigation of the Tsarnaev brothers, there has been much discussion…
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Fates of jailed Cuban Five are at the heart of hostility between Washington and Havana. Cuban Adriana Perez hasn’t seen her imprisoned husband since 1990s. By Oakland Ross From…
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By Bill Press It was inspiring to see them side by side at Southern Methodist University in Dallas: Presidents Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and…
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By Aníbal Malvar From the Spanish daily Público MADRID – Ferociously persecuted by Castroism and deprived of all freedom, Yoani Sánchez is making a world tour to denounce the…
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By Paul Day From Huffington Post MADRID (Reuters) - More than six million Spaniards were out of work in the first quarter of this year, raising the jobless rate in the euro…
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By Isabel Kaplan From The Huffington Post Every year, by April 30, the secretary of state presents to Congress the annual Country Reports on Terrorism. A central component of this…
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By Tracy Eaton From his blog Along the Malecon The Open Technology Institute has created an open-source tool that would allow democracy activists in Cuba and other nations to…
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By Mark Weisbrot From The Guardian While most of the news on Venezuela in the week since the April 14 presidential election focused on the efforts of losing candidate Henrique…
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By David Brooks From the Mexican newspaper La Jornada That also explains the almost hysterical tone against this reform, as well as, on a more general level, the raging fear that so…
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By Max J. Castro MIAMI - Two lethal explosions took place on the same day last week. You would have to live on another planet to have missed the horror that happened at the end of…
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