Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

By Danny Glover and Saul Landau People stop in Victorville California 85 miles northeast of Los Angeles because they have to see someone at one of its several prisons (federal, state,…
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By Bill Press Scary things sometimes come in pretty packages. Take Paul Ryan. Most members of the media have a man-crush on him. When he released his 2012 budget, the New York Times…
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By Aurelio Pedroso HAVANA – What’s happening right now in Cuba is reminiscent of an episode from the well-known Paris Commune. This, after saving everything that should be…
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By Jesús Arboleya Cervera HAVANA – The selection of Paul Ryan as the Republican candidate to the Vice Presidency of the United States gives continuity to the strategy followed by that…
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Between bureaucrats and brutocrats By Manuel Alberto Ramy HAVANA – Last May, Cuban Erick Hernández set a Guinness record when he kicked a soccer ball for 12 hours and 5 minutes…
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By Paul West From the Los Angeles Times (Editor’s Note: The Republican Convention begins next week in Tampa. Cuba seems a small priority on the GOP’s platform. But we…
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By Alan Farago From the Eye on Miami blog One reader posted, "This is not democracy." Another reader noted, "Only half the electorate in Miami-Dade is registered to…
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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com Last week in Florida the state’s biggest electric company, Florida Power & Light (FPL), and the entities that gobble up huge chunks…
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Al’s Loupe Is it finally over for David Rivera? By Alvaro F. Fernandez alvaro@progresoweekly.com Now it’s up to us. Or how much more evidence of delinquent behavior do…
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By Progreso Weekly staff MIAMI - The Miami Herald is reporting that David Rivera may have been behind the failed candidacy of Justin Lamar Stenard alleging that Rivera “helped run a…
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