Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

Water in a basket (blog under construction) By Dalia Céspedes HAVANA – Some months ago, on my way to a friend’s house, I found in a second-hand book stall a second edition (1958) of…
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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com A mantra, says my dictionary, is a “mystical formula of invocation or incantation…” The mantra of the gun nuts – the gun rights…
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By Carol Morello and Luz Lazo From The Washington Post The fate of Baltimore may rest with immigrants like Alexandra Gonzalez. A native of Puebla, Mexico, Gonzalez feels more at home…
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From the staff of Progreso Semanal/RPA HAVANA – “Oswaldo lived the soul-wrenching role of a Christian layman with a political option. He was totally faithful to his ideas, which didn’t…
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From Progreso Weekly staff MOSCOW – Children from the suburbs of Moscow may be able to spend Russian winters in sunny Cuba, the chairman of the Moscow Region government told a meeting…
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By Saul Landau Western leaders met in Paris last week to discuss possible intervention in Syria where almost 10,000 people have died over the last year of internal conflict. The West…
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By Bill Press Over the last decade, I've published more than 500 columns. But none got more reaction than my column of March 15 entitled "Politicians Fiddle While Earth…
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By Salim Lamrani From the blog La pupila insomne (The sleepless eye) At the petition of the Vatican and the Spanish government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the Cuban Catholic…
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By Lisandra Romeo Matos From AIN (National Information Agency) HAVANA – The new Customs standards that regulate the payment of duty for noncommercial items sent to natural persons…
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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com The other day I was heading home on US 1 when I noticed some none-too-subtle political messages prominently displayed on the tail end of a…
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