Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

Relax doomsayers, the Maya people did not really mark their calendar for the end of the world on December 21, 2012. As tourists book hotels rooms in Mexico’s Maya Riviera and…
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By Tracey Eaton From his Along the Malecon blog The U.S. government has hired a former CIA agent to create and manage a team of at least 10 journalists in Cuba, contract records…
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By Silvio Torres-Saillant From the National Institute for Latino Policy network NEW YORK - The re-election of President Barak Obama for a second term arguably means more for…
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By Max J. Castro MIAMI - “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.” So goes the saying once famously mangled by George W. Bush. But what do you say when you…
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By Saul Landau and Nelson P. Valdés Several of our friends expressed shock when they learned that President Obama had won some 48% of south Florida’s Cuban-American vote. One…
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By Saul Landau “We’re the Greatest! We’re number one!” - Kid Rock, screaming for Mitt Romney Must we continue to brag about us being “The Greatest Country in the World”? Imagine an…
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By Jesús Arboleya Cervera HAVANA – Barack Obama’s victory in the recent U.S. elections has rekindled the debate about that country’s policy toward Cuba. Predictions range…
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By Julian Pecquet From The Hill Israel and Hamas have agreed to a cease-fire in Gaza after a week of rocket fire and retaliatory Israeli air strikes left at least 100 Palestinians…
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By Katherine vanden Heuvel From The Washington Post With his final election behind him, and the final attack ads safely off the air, President Obama now returns to his regularly…
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By Elizabeth Braw From Metro International Israel and Gaza are again attacking each other, Syria is descending into civil war, four American diplomats killed in Libya: the Middle…
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