Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

By Roberto G. Peralo From the blog La Joven Cuba (LJC) MATANZAS – Raúl Castro’s speech before the National Assembly on Dec. 23 was interesting. The most important of the…
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By Jesús Arboleya Cervera A widely expressed opinion is that the current economic reforms in Cuba do not imply any relevant political changes. That’s what the U.S. government…
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By Alvaro F. Fernandez alvaro@progresoweekly.com So you’re a Miami Marlins fan. Two years down the line imagine they are playing great baseball and are battling for the playoffs;…
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Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com “Are GOP candidates playing the race card?” reads the headline to a January 9th article in the Washington Post. You might as well…
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By Jonathan M. Hansen From The New York Times IN the 10 years since the Guantánamo detention camp opened, the anguished debate over whether to shutter the facility — or make it…
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By Manuel Alberto Ramy HAVANA – The relationship between the established power and society is extremely important for any country. When that relationship begins to fall apart, some…
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From The Washington Post Editorial Board America’s half-baked immigration system is riddled with unfair, arbitrary and inhumane provisions, but few are so senseless and cruel…
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By Saul Landau and Nelson P. Valdés “…they cannot forgive us, who are there in front of their noses and who have made a socialist revolution before the very nose of the United…
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By Bill Press Mitt "Landslide" Romney may have won the Iowa caucuses by a whopping eight votes, but everybody knows the real winner was former Pennsylvania Senator Rick…
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By Noam Chomsky On June 15, three months after the NATO bombing of Libya began, the African Union presented to the U.N. Security Council the African position on the attack – in…
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