Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

By Varela Many years ago, Carlos Varela wrote a song in Cuba in which he asked that the story of William Tell be inverted. In other words, instead of placing the apple on his son's head…
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Al’s Loupe Crist offers tiny ray of hope By Alvaro F. Fernandezalvaro@progresoweekly.com There is an important senate race in Florida this year. Last year at this time I would have…
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Travel agencies expect the Obama administration will intervene in the case By Gerardo Arreola From the Mexican newspaper La Jornada HAVANA, May 9 – Following an explosive growth…
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By Bill Press Farewell to the Tea Party. It was fun while it lasted. It certainly got a lot of undue media attention. But it died a premature, yet welcome, death. Ironically, what…
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By Saul Landau Joe, whose business has gone bad, borrows $100 from Mike. The next day he borrows another $100. Some months later, he pays Mike $100 and says:“Business has picked up.…
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By Max J. Castromajcastro@gmail.com The result of these converging factors—the mad rush for oil and the irresponsibility of BP and of the laissez-faire Bush-Cheney administration—has…
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By John McAuliff Florida politics have consistently crippled hopes for a rational U.S. policy on Cuba. The swing state mystique confounds Presidential candidates and PAC money from…
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By Luis Sexto The situation in Cuba was seen yesterday, and is seen today, through glasses of different colors. And that seems natural when, perhaps despite the wishes of the rulers,…
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By Mark Weisbrot From The Guardian With Venezuela's economy having contracted last year (as did the vast majority of economies in the Western Hemisphere), the economy suffering from…
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Marco Rubio has a way about him. The way he manages to move from side to side on any issue. He can be against a law one day and 72 hours later find himself for it. And although…
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