Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

By Annette Fuentes When the National Rifle Association announced that it would unveil a plan in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary school tragedy last December, there were some…
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By Ed Pilkington From The Guardian Shawn Carter could have been any American visitor strolling through the streets of a Caribbean town, dressed in standard-issue tourist fare of…
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From Progreso Semanal/RPA HAVANA - They married in Paris and came to spend their fifth anniversary in Havana, Cuba. The famous travelers are none other than Beyonce and rapper…
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By Zachary Elkins From The New York Times The elementary-school shootings in Newtown, Conn., in December produced two polar public reactions: fear among some Americans that the…
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By Matt Taibbi From Rolling Stone First, a quick housekeeping note: About a month ago, I got a call out of the blue from Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who's one of my favorite…
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There really is no such thing. … And not because the Associated Press announced a long overdue change to its Stylebook yesterday and will no longer use "illegal alien",…
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By Louis A. Perez Jr. From the Bradenton Herald The United States needs to change its policy toward Cuba. For nearly 55 years, over the course of 11 successive U.S. presidential…
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By Mark Weisbrot From The Guardian The video, caught randomly on a warehouse security camera, is chilling. Five young men are walking down a quiet street in Tegucigalpa,…
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Easter Sunday I watched an MSNBC TV segment with Melissa Harris-Perry where the subject was the now infamous ‘welfare queens’. Remember Ronald Reagan demonizing those he said milked…
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By Saul Landau and Nelson P. Valdés For over five decades, U.S. policy makers have attempted to overthrow the government in Cuba. Their arguments for doing so have changed over…
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