Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

By Mark Engler From Dissent Magazine Here’s something you don’t see every day: One of the most influential promoters of market fundamentalist “free trade” policies admitting that…
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By Katherine Driscoll (Editor’s Note: This is a letter that appeared in Saturday’s Miami Herald. The opinions offered are from a Miami-Dade County teacher. The fact is that there has…
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By Tim Nickens From the St. Petersburg Times If Jeb Bush wants to be governor again, the job will be open soon. If he wants to be a U.S. senator, he should run against Gov. Charlie…
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By Rómulo Pardo Silva Taken from Rebelión Cuba’s fierce enemies have the economic means and the access to communications for a permanent global campaign against the island. Based on…
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A Reporter's Notebook Comptroller vs. corruption By Manuel Alberto Ramy The Comptroller General of the Republic (CGR) is ready to launch an attack against corruption, an evil that…
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By Mark Weisbrot From The Guardian Unlimited Of all the misunderstandings that guide U.S. foreign policy -- including foreign commercial policy -- perhaps the most important and…
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By Varela On Monday the 12th, an unprecedented event occurred in Miami-Dade County. Some public schools put up signs saying “We're open.” Others said “The teachers are here.” And in…
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By Lesley Clark WASHINGTON -- Former Miami-Dade Democratic party chief Joe Garcia resigned Tuesday from the Obama administration to jump into a hotly contested race for a congressional…
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By Frida Modak Alai-amlatina News Service Amid the renewed siege against Cuba, former U.S. presidential candidate and current Democratic Senator John Kerry made an important…
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By Varela Sometime ago in Cuba, I saw an Italian movie featuring Ugo Tognazzi, titled “We Want the Colonels” (Vogliamo i colonnelli, 1973). It was a classic comedy with black humor…
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