Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

By Bill Press Here's a good idea. Let's say you're a former senator. You're running for president of the United States. You want to appeal to blue-collar, middle-class voters. So what…
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By Saul Landau After 9/11, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, a Yale graduate with a law degree from Columbia, and fellow neo cons plotted to twist and invent “intelligence” data to convince…
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By Roberto G. Peralo From La Joven Cuba To try to narrate and describe everything that happened during that hour-long ride would be really long. And the dynamic of modern…
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By Elsa Claro HAVANA – It would seem that not much is going well in Cuba. Ugly, disheartening news emerges about the farm sector, a strategic part of the economy. Will there be a…
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By Gerardo Arreola From the Mexican newspaper La Jornada HAVANA – Cuba’s Catholic Church is not looking to regain its privileges of the past but hopes that its faithful will…
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By Jesús Arboleya Cervera HAVANA – Fidel Castro’s presence at the Vatican in the 1990s and John Paul II’s visit to Cuba in January 1998 were landmarks in Cuba’s…
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Al’s Loupe Flattening Florida children’s chances for success By Alvaro F. Fernandez alvaro@progresoweekly.com After reading a recent Fred Grimm column in The Miami Herald, I get an…
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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com Right-wing demagogues by the legions pollute the radio airwaves of hundreds of cities in the United States, but there is only one Rush…
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From Espacio Laical HAVANA - Very soon now, the Holy Father, Benedict XVI, will arrive in our homeland. The Pope visits us within the context of the Jubilee Year proclaimed by the Cuban…
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By Gerardo Arreola From the Mexican newspaper La Jornada HAVANA – President Raúl Castro confirmed his intention to slim down the government body by ordering the merger of two ministries…
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