Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

By Saul Landau What did Iran do to us to merit heavy U.S. sanctions? The media doesn’t ask this question. Oh yeah, 30-plus years ago Iranian zealots grabbed some CIA and…
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By Bill Press As consumers, we know our rights, one of the most important of which is the right to return and exchange. Whether you're buying a new flat-screen TV from Best Buy, the…
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By Mónica Rivero From Iberoamerica.net One summer day a police officer knocked on Silvio Rodríguez’s home door. “Silvio, I’m in charge of Prevention at “La…
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By La Saeta HAVANA – The girl or boy who was born one minute past midnight on September 15 will not appear on the national inventories. The non-citizen will have to wait for another…
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By Aurelio Pedroso HAVANA – To cross “the sea ocean,” as Christopher Columbus used to say, or the small and distant Straits of Florida, loaded with streamers, balloons,…
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By Max J. Castro So now it is Maureen Down’s turn. Who would have imagined it, the New York Times columnist best known for her signature style – call it biting bitchiness –…
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Al’s Loupe Romney could care less about elderly Cubans who will vote for him By Alvaro F. Fernandez alvaro@progresoweekly.com MIAMI - Let me start by pointing out that 58% of…
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Mitt Romney feels 47% of us are victims who simply depend on government for most everything. He call us entitled and says we pay no income tax. And that’s from a multi-millionaire who…
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Being right-wing is not fashionable; trend is toward socialism, studies show By Luis Hernández Navarro From the Mexican newspaper La Jornada CARACAS – In today’s Venezuela, it…
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By Saul Landau and Nelson Valdes "Do you really want to live in a country where one party is so desperate to win the White House that they go around trying to make it harder for…
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