Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

By Nick Miroff From GlobalPost.com HAVANA - At the last Summit of the Americas, held in Colombia in April, Washington’s rivals in Latin America and its political allies had the…
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By Phyllis Pomerantz From The Globe and Mail (Canada) Now that the election is over, the United States has a rare opportunity to do away with one of its most pointless and…
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On the morning of Friday, Jan. 2, 1959, Americans who purchased The New York Times learned about a significant news event. "Batista and regime flee Cuba," said a headline atop Page…
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By Robert Reich From the Robert Reich blog The deal emerging from the Senate is a lousy one. Let me count the ways: 1. Republicans haven’t conceded anything on the debt ceiling,…
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By Robert Reich From the Robert Reich blog President Obama is cutting his Christmas holiday short, returning to Washington for a last attempt at avoiding the fiscal cliff. But…
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By Maureen Dowd From The New York Times When my friend Robin was dying, she asked me if I knew a priest she could talk to who would not be, as she put it, “too judgmental.” I knew…
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By Manuel Alberto Ramy HAVANA – Once upon a time there was a king named Herod. One day, his aides told him that, according to reports, a child had been born who would become a king.…
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HAVANA, 18 Dec 2012 –Progreso Semanal/Radio Progreso Alternativa (RPA)– Writer, journalist and literary critic Leonardo Padura Fuentes, 57, won the highest prize of Cuban literature,…
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By Aurelio Pedroso HAVANA – If anyone in Cuba with street smarts and ingenuity would set up a row of chairs along the well-known Salvador Allende Avenue (the former Charles III…
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By Dalia Céspedes As soon as I open "Il Sogno di una Cosa," the novel by Italian poet Pier Paolo Passolini, I find this marvelous quote from the prophet Karl Marx,…
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