Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

ByAurelio Pedroso April 12/2012 What just happened to poor Oswaldo “Ozzie” Guillén reminds me of a well-known joke in Cuba about a gay baseball player who dreamed of stepping up to…
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By Danny Glover and Saul Landau Highway 15 connects California’s Inland Empire with Las Vegas – accounting for the relative thickness of Saturday morning traffic. So we…
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By Bill Press Not much news came out of this week's North American Leaders' Summit at the White House. Probably because most reporters fell asleep in the Rose Garden, listening to…
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By Elsa Claro HAVANA – When you're in the shade, you feel the heat less, grandfather Perico used to say every time that we wanted to turn some opinion into dogma. As realists, those…
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By Harold Cárdenas Lema From the blog La Joven Cuba (The Young Cuba) HAVANA – What would a change in Cuba’s political system be like? What would the arrival of the capitalist…
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Al’s Loupe Viva Fidel, I mean down with Fidel… Oh, whatever! By Alvaro F. Fernandez alvaro@progresoweekly.com Fidel Castro is still the most influential person in Miami. And in 2012,…
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By Max J. Castro Welfare “reform” seemed like a good idea back in the mid-1990s when the economy was booming and jobs were plentiful. At least it seemed like a great idea…
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By Harold Cárdenas Lema From La Joven Cuba blog April 10, 2012 Recently I read a piece in Granma on the Young Communists’ Union (UJC) that gave me the impression it was…
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By Gerardo Arreola Correspondent La Jornada Monday 9 April 2012. HAVANA - Mexico's Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) could be operating directly for the first time in Cuba by the hiring of…
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By Randal C. Archibold From The New York Times NASSAU, the Bahamas — A brand new $35 million stadium opened here in the Bahamas a few weeks ago, a gift from the Chinese government. The…
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