Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com MIAMI - Even President Obama didn’t believe they would go through with it. The administration was convinced that sequestration –…
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By Michael D. Barnes From The Baltimore Sun Unfortunately, our nation faces enormous challenges in virtually every region of the globe. In countries ranging from Iran to North…
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By Saul Landau HAVANA - I walk some of the same streets I did in 1960 and 1961, a time when most Cubans awaited an attack from the United States, a time when people in their…
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By Sarah Stephens From The Havana Note WASHINGTON, DC - As we travel back and forth to Cuba, often with delegations of U.S. policymakers, we focus our research and reporting on…
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Rosalynn and I extend our condolences to the family of Hugo Chávez Frías. We met Hugo Chávez when he was campaigning for president in 1998 and The Carter Center was invited to…
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By Jon Lee Anderson From The New Yorker Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez Frias, who died on Tuesday, from cancer, at the age of fifty-eight, was one of the most flamboyantly…
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By Jonathan Watts From The Guardian Hugo Chavéz, the president of Venezuela, has died in a military hospital after a long battle against cancer, the vice-president has announced,…
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Little by little, and then with big chunks in the past 10 to 20 years, the distribution of wealth in the U.S. has steeped as if a seesaw tilting upward where the small seat at the…
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By William March From The Tampa Tribune In an interview promoting his new book, "Immigration Wars," on the Today Show, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said he opposes a "path to…
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By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa From The New York Times WASHINGTON - Just after Raúl Castro grabbed the world’s attention with his decision to step down from the presidency…
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