Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

By Mark Weisbrot From The Guardian In 1915, the U.S. Marines invaded Haiti, occupying the country until 1934. U.S. officials rewrote the Haitian constitution, and when the Haitian…
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A St. Petersburg Times Editorial Florida lawmakers' hopes of thwarting Cuba's offshore drilling ambitions by isolating it from oil companies that do business in the United States is…
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By Saul Landau In upmarket restaurants one wouldn’t know the world is suffering from a food crisis. As I observed young executives and professionals slurping oysters and chasing them…
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By Dana Milbank From The Washington Post Did Arianna Huffington just sell out her fellow progressives? In the literal sense, she undoubtedly has: The sale of Huffington Post to AOL…
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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com Follow the money. Soaring rhetoric and good intentions aside, what counts and what really defines a nation, a society, or a community is who gets…
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By Bill Press It's amazing what we can do with our iPhones: make calls, return emails, schedule meetings, file notes, take photos, keep grocery lists, get wake-up calls, time a…
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By Arnaldo Hernández From The Unknown Island In its issue of Feb. 7, The Wall Street Journal expressed its hope that a social explosion might occur in Cuba like the one sparked by the…
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By Jesús Arboleya Cervera The U.S. persecutes Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, accusing him of being a terrorist and a spy. But the reason is not that he planned attacks –…
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By Varela Apropos the painful, nonsensical problem in Homestead about suspending a musical event in the U.S.-Cuba cultural exchange, I always try to picture the essence of a true…
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Al’s Loupe Marco Rubio: front man for Cuba travel interests? By Alvaro F. Fernandezalvaro@progreso-weekly.com There appears to be a pattern here. And it’s nothing new. I wonder who…
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