Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

By Max J. Castromajcastro@gmail.com That’s the question posed in a May 14, 2010, Washington Post column by Michael Gerson, a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush. Gerson…
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By Saul Landau Washington’s national security elite seethe and fume with resentment and frustration. Pakistan receives billions of U.S. aid dollars and remains a training ground for…
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(Editor’s Note: This is an excerpted version of an article that appeared in The Huffington Post produced by the Huffington Post Investigative Fund.) For all of Goldman Sachs’ professed…
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By Mark Engler From Dissent Magazine Answer me this: Do progressives have anything to lose by opposing Elena Kagan as too conservative to be a satisfactory pick for the Supreme…
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By Antonio Padrino That a car in Venezuela costs three times more than in Peru or in the United States and that one must wait six months to acquire one – through a bribe – is not all…
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By Jorge Gómez Barata I followed with interest the work of the Congress of the Small Farmers Association (ANAP), also called “the Peasants’ Congress.” The effort was worthwhile…
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By Gerardo Arreola From the Mexican newspaper La Jornada HAVANA, May 17 – Private farmers, who generate 70 percent of the food produced in Cuba, asked for more freedom to sell their…
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By Varela David Rivera is a Florida superhero. He doesn't spend as much in haircuts as his friend Marco Rubio, but he gets into adventures that cost the taxpayer hundreds of thousands…
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By Robert Naiman Sao Paulo, Brazil - If I were in Washington, I would run down Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House to Congress with a big Brazilian flag, as the young Brazilians…
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By Alan Fram WASHINGTON (AP) -- Illegal immigrants are a boon, not a burden to the country, a resounding majority of Hispanics say, according to an Associated Press-Univision Poll that…
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