Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

By Enrique Ubieta Gómez When is a dialogue false? Is it when the demand for liberty becomes a rhetorical trick to deceive the reader? Whoever attempts to dialogue with Cuba has to…
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From Havana Digging into the agricultural sector The pebble in the shoe By Manuel Alberto Ramy Alimentary security – defined as strategic – and farm production are intimately…
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By Mark Weisbrot From the Sacramento Bee A small group of rich people who own most of Honduras and its politicians enlist the military to kidnap the elected president at gunpoint and…
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By Varela As I see it, when on Nov. 12 the presidential team (Obama was in China) agreed to answer the questions posed by Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez, it did two things. First, it paid…
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By Nelson P. Valdés On Oct. 29, the Cuban magazine Temas held its monthly meeting/debate on what has been called "Last Thursday," because the event is held the last Thursday of every…
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By Bill Press NEW YORK ... This week, in the bars, restaurants, and subways of the city that never sleeps, one topic dominated all others. Not Sarah Palin, Afghanistan, or health care…
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By Max J. Castro What happens when a brutal recession strikes a nation that has been busy shredding its socioeconomic safety net for a quarter century? The result is an enormous toll of…
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By Saul Landau From my window in Alameda overlooking San Francisco Bay, I watch hundreds of men and women in white suits, some with masks, busily uprooting slimy sea plants and gently…
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By Jesús Arboleya Cervera The Cuban bloggers are the world's most famous. I refer to the “dissidents,” of course, because the first idea that they try to convey is that there are no…
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Al’s Loupe Gaming the Miami political system By Alvaro F. Fernandez alfernandez@the-beach.net If Lewis Carroll had been around today and living in Miami, and he had yet to write his…
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