Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

By Saul Landau What did Cuba do to the United States to merit 53 years of castigation? In 1960, those dirty Caribbean Commies joined the “evil” side in the Cold War…
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By Robert Sandels A Cuban official recently brought up a point that is seldom remarked in the foreign media, to wit, that the economic blockade – the centerpiece of U.S. Cuba policy…
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By Bill Press This is the political season. So you can expect to hear a lot of lies, and we do. "The stimulus did not create one single job." (John Boehner) "Barack…
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By Gerardo Arreola From the Mexican newspaper La Jornada HAVANA – Resistance to Cuba’s reforms is noticeable from the diverse societal sectors, among them the unemployed,…
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Motivation is one of the greatest challenges in our universities By Jorge Luís Leyva Romero From La Joven Cuba (The Young Cuba) MATANZAS – Why am I not motivated? More than once,…
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Water in a basket * The island, in (convertible) pesos By Dalia Céspedes HAVANA – The damned circumstance of water all around forces me to sit at the coffee table. Thus begins…
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By Aurelio Pedroso HAVANA – Juan of the Dead is doing great at the local cinemas and TV screens. Both in Havana and Miami it earned Most Liked Film awards, a prize that, so far as I…
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From Cuba Standard More than a decade after SINTEL shut down, Spain’s Audiencia Nacional held a first hearing in a trial against Cuban American businessman Jorge Mas Santos over…
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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com When you have an election, it is usually clear who won and who lost. As with every rule, there are exceptions. The 2000 U.S. presidential…
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From Fox News Latino and Associated Press A convicted Cuban spy who finished his U.S. prison time is again asking a federal judge to allow him to return to Cuba to serve probation. The…
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