Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

In 2008, approximately 11,608,000 Latinos were registered to vote. Of those, more than 9 million actually voted. A staggering number, or more than 75%. The Pew Center just issued a…
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By Manuel E. Yepe HAVANA – A document published in September 2012 by the press office of the Council on Foreign Relations of the United States, identified as Contingency Planning…
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By Abner D. Barrera For several weeks now, one hears everywhere in Venezuela the Bolivarian leader’s campaign song, “Chávez, Heart of the People,” written by…
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By David Brooks From the Mexican newspaper La Jornada NEW YORK CITY – The daily tragicomedy in the United States manifests itself in various ways. At the corner of Broadway and…
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By Saul Landau Five Cubans fighting terrorism in South Florida have served 14 years of prison, more than enough time for the U.S. public to learn from its media about the horrific…
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By Margaret E. Crahan From America, The National Catholic Weekly The March 2012 visit to Cuba of Pope Benedict XVI focused attention on the emergence of the Catholic Church as an…
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By Gerardo Arreola From the Mexican newspaper La Jornada HAVANA – For the first time in public, Cuba presented two cases that showed a reduction in cancerous tumors and an…
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By Manuel Alberto Ramy HAVANA – There are articles that one reads and – though they deal with apparently different topics – upon meditation one finds their core points or connecting…
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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com Incumbents who preside over the kind of economy President Barack Obama has endured over the last four years rarely get reelected. Add to that…
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By Laura Bly From USA Today After months of bureaucratic red tape and delays that forced several U.S. companies to cancel their popular "people to people" Cuba programs, the trips…
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