Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

Al’s Loupe It’s time to allow the ‘balseros’ to return By Alvaro F. Fernandez alvaro@progresoweekly.com “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” – Dr. Martin…
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By Fred Grimm From The Miami Herald It would be like building another Margaritaville, right there on the state Capitol grounds. Lobbyists charged their clients $127 million last year to…
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The Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela -- President Hugo Chavez said Tuesday that doctors in Cuba have found a new lesion in the area where he had cancer surgery last year. He told…
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A Correspondent’s Draft By Manuel Alberto Ramy February 19, 2012 “The pace of changes are factors of the same political process underway, but they do not limit the depth that can be…
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By José Alejandro Rodríguez HAVANA – There’s no stopping the trips back to the source, the call of the blood and the native soil. About 400,000 Cubans who live in the United…
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By Hugh O’Shaughnessy From the British newspaper The Independent Fifty years ago this month, the United States began the embargo on Cuba which continues to this day. But the…
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By Saul Landau How to evaluate events in Syria and what to do? Syria borders on Turkey (north), Iraq (east), the Mediterranean (west), Lebanon (south and west), Israel (Golan Heights)…
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By Bill Press I love protests, and have taken part in many of them. My first was picketing in front of Safeway in San Francisco, urging shoppers to support California farm workers…
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By Albor Ruiz From the New York Daily News , believe it or not, marked the 50th anniversary of the U.S. economic embargo of Cuba. Let’s not wish it a happy birthday. The…
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By Harold Cárdenas Lema From La Joven Cuba (The Young Cuba) “It is also necessary that the young men who have not demonstrated a correct attitude toward their studies or their…
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