Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

By Roland S. Martin From CNN For more than 50 years, the United States has had an embargo against the island of Cuba, all because we supposedly hate communism and believe the nation…
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A Washington Post editorial By declaring that “self-deportation” is the solution to illegal immigration, Mitt Romney gave voice to an idea in wide currency among…
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By Saul Landau and Nelson P. Valdés (Second and final part) Since 1959 Cuba has played a significant world role, quite a feat for a nation of 5 million – 11 million now. Cubans have…
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By Bill Press Political junkies like me have never seen anything like it: Running 20 points behind, just a week before the South Carolina primary, Newt Gingrich catapulted to the top…
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By Osmany Sanchez   From La Joven Cuba (The Young Cuba) Not a day goes by that I don’t hear someone, particularly someone elderly, refer to the harm done to Cuban…
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By Luis Sexto The gamblers who bet that, at the first Conference of the Communist Party of Cuba, the party leaders would go bonkers and begin to dismantle the socialist process…
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By Jorge Piñon International oil companies are currently conducting oil and natural gas exploration activities in the Strait of Florida and southeastern Gulf of Mexico, within the…
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By Max J. Castro The polarization that increasingly has characterized, and virtually paralyzed, the U.S. political system now has acquired a new dimension. Added to the…
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By Aaron Blake From The Washington Post Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.), who has faced a series of primary challenges in recent years, has decided not to seek a 16th term this year. Burton,…
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By Gerardo Arreola From the Mexican newspaper La Jornada HAVANA - With a multinational investment that may total hundreds of millions of dollars, Cuba began a search for oil in the deep…
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