Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

From the Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam - Cuban President Raul Castro is visiting Vietnam and getting a look at a Communist country that has boomed economically after embracing…
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By Jane Franklin Speech given July 6 in Montclair, New Jersey It’s an honor to be here once again to help send off another Friendshipment Caravan to Cuba. But wouldn’t it be nice if…
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Raul Castro is welcomed in Beijing by China’s Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun. A translator appears between them. (Photo by AIN – Cuba) By Fernando Ravsberg From Havana Times President…
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From the Associated Press BEIJING — Cuban leader Raul Castro is in China for talks with President Hu Jintao and other leaders, his first visit to his country’s key trading partner…
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By Francisco Alvarado From Miami New Times Saturday, Miami native Danell Leyva took first place at the Olympic gymnastic trials in San Jose, California. That makes him the first…
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By Saul Landau  “Americans will do anything for Latin America except read about it.”  - James Reston “You go Uruguay and I’ll go my way,” said Groucho…
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A The New York Times editorial Immigrants are known as entrepreneurial people, for obvious reasons: those with the ambition and energy to uproot themselves and build new lives in a…
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By Bill Press We know the Supreme Court. On December 12, 2000, it decided that George W. Bush would be the next president of the United States. On June 28, 2012, it decided that…
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By José Alejandro Rodríguez HAVANA – The most visible and colorful facet of the so-called “updating of the Cuban economic model” (though not the decisive one) continues…
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By Roberto G. Peralo From La Joven Cuba (The Young Cuba) For some time now, the blog La Joven Cuba has been publishing replies to articles and opinions that appear in the media. As…
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