Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

By Christina Lopez Some prominent immigrant rights organizations sincerely hoped that electing Obama would turn things around for immigrants. But those hopes were misplaced. Obama's…
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By Saul Landau “All we have to do is send two mujahedeen to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth saying ‘al-Qa'ida’ in order to make generals race there, and we cause…
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As reported by the South Florida Business Journal in their Friday, October 30 edition, it seems one of our area’s distinguished members of congress (well, really his wife in this case…
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By Alejandro Armengol From El Nuevo Herald A multimillion-dollar industry exists in Spain, a segment of the trashy media: television programs devoted to commenting on the lives of…
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By ELISABETH MALKIN From The New York Times MEXICO CITY — A lingering political crisis in Honduras seemed to be nearing an end on Friday after the de facto government agreed to a deal…
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There is good news. Boston developer Dennis Stackhouse, accused of stealing nearly $1 million from a proposed taxpayer-supported biopharmaceutical park intended to revitalize Liberty…
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By Aurelio Pedroso In Spain, the start of the Christmas holiday season is set off by the El Corte Inglés megastore. It fires the starting gun and triggers the shopping spree. In Cuba…
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By Elíades Acosta Matos On Oct. 27, 2009, a Boeing jumbo jet from New York should have landed at Havana's José Martí Airport after a scheduled three-hour flight. According to plan,…
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UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- The UN General Assembly on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly to call for an end to the U.S. embargo on Cuba. The vote was cast at the 192-member General…
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For the 18th year in a row, the United Nations General Assembly unequivocally calls for the end of "the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of…
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