Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

By Mark Weisbrot From The Guardian In the film "Guantanamera," the last by renowned Cuban director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, the Yoruba creation myth is presented as a metaphor for the…
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By Luis Sexto At least among Cubans, the common definition of “being in crisis” is the equivalent of “being on fire,” about to go from flesh to ashes. Other, less ardent cultures,…
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By Bill Press For commanders in the field, hidden away somewhere in the Pentagon's handbook of military strategy must be the warning: "In the middle of a war, don't waste your time…
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By Bob Peltz From The Miami Herald (Editor’s Note: What follows is a letter written to The Miami Herald, which appeared this past Monday. Jackie Bueno Sousa is a Herald columnist…
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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com The U.S. Senate last week rejected a bill, the “American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act of 2010,” that would have extended unemployment…
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By Saul Landau The U.S. government demanded that Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding extradite a drug dealer. When Venezuela made similar demands on Washington, for arguably the…
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By Varela I remember when, two decades ago, I began to work for a publication in Miami for the first time. The Chicago Tribune, through The Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, hired me…
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From Chairman Collin Peterson’s Office: The Agricultural Committee vote on HR 4645 (travel and agricultural sales bill which caused a furor in Miami when 74 Cubans on the island…
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This just arrived by email from my friends at the Democratic Party. So, OK, it’s slanted, I know. But when it comes to Marco and David, even when slanted, you can tell these two are a…
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Story I just received from the Havana Note blog. Really… it shows how low some of these idiots are willing to stoop. As for the staffer, he’ll do well in Washington some day… probably…
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