Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

By Jorge Gómez Barata On Aug. 1, President Raúl Castro, Second Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, announced the postponement of the organization's Congress and issued a call to a…
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Seven weeks after Honduran coup, Washington still lagging the region on restoring democracy By Mark Weisbrot From The Guardian Seven weeks after the Honduran military overthrew…
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By Bill Press It wasn't supposed to happen this way. In 1996, I came to Washington as the new liberal co-host of CNN's "Crossfire" to do battle with Bob Novak. And I did, hammer and…
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A New York Times editorial One of the major goals of health care reform is to cover the vast numbers of uninsured. But how vast, really, is that pool of people? Who are they? And how…
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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com The advocates of the Iraq war said U.S. soldiers would be received with flowers and candies. That never happened. Now, more than 4,000 American and…
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By Saul Landau “Climate change will intensify droughts, floods and other natural disasters.  The scarcity of water will affect hundreds of millions of people. Malnutrition is going to…
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Countryside schools By Luis Sexto The school year that begins in September writes the first words of the epitaph for countryside schools. It is not this article’s intention to publish…
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Al’s Loupe Miami-Dade’s Mayor Alvarez believes in green power, it’s why he’s bailing out his top aides By Alvaro F. Fernandez alfernandez@the-beach.net People are surprised and…
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By Raúl Zibechi From La Jornada, Mexico When George W. Bush decided to reestablish the Fourth Fleet, the decision seemed like one more cog in the wheel of militaristic actions that…
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Juanes will sing on the Mexico-U.S. border A conversation in Havana By Manuel Alberto Ramy “After going to Cuba, the idea is to go to the border between the United States and…
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