Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

By Jorge Piñon From The Miami Herald On June 3, 1979, Pemex's exploratory oil well Ixtoc I in Mexico's Bay of Campeche suffered a blowout resulting in what was at the time one of…
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By David Brooks From La Jornada It is said that some American politician, justifying Washington's support for dictators, declared that "Somoza is a son of a bitch, but he's our son…
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By Bill Press "It's 3 a.m. and your children are safe and asleep. But there's a phone in the White House and it's ringing. Something's happening in the world. Your vote will decide…
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By Jesús Arboleya Cervera According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Cuba has an oil reserve of 5 billion barrels in the vicinity of the northwestern coast and approximately 10…
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A reporter´s notebook Internet: “There´s no political obstacle” By Manuel Alberto Ramy ramymanuel@yahoo.com 8 February 2011. As I finished my previous blog, “A step towards…
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Will camels be withdrawn from the Havana zoo? Friday, 05 February 2011 By Aurelio Pedroso Violence in Egypt. The crowds demand that Hosni Mubarak stops ruling at once: thirty…
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A reporter´s notebook By Manuel Alberto Ramyramymanuel@yahoo.com February 4, 2011 The news started to go round at the very end of last year and one could its reflection printed on…
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Miami-Dade Mayor Alvarez today filed a lawsuit to block a recall vote scheduled for March 15. Commissioner Natacha Seijas had earlier also filed one for the same reason. According to…
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From Granma Following an exhaustive investigation, the People’s Provincial Tribunal of the City of Havana has received from the Prosecution preparatory file No. 59/2009 with the…
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By Victoria Burnett From The New York Times BAUTA, Cuba — Marisela Álvarez spends much of the day bent over a single electric burner in her small outdoor kitchen. Her knees are killing…
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