Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

By Rolando Castañeda and Lorenzo Cañizares On May 20, 2008, presidential candidate Barack Obama established a new and different agenda for Cuba. He pointed to the failure of the embargo…
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By Bill Press The White House is never happy when a former president upstages the current president -- which explains why the Obama White House is not happy with Jimmy Carter. With one…
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Al’s Loupe Miami’s ‘before and after’ moment By Alvaro F. Fernandez alfernandez@the-beach.net It was best said by the Colombian singer Juanes, who referred to Sunday’s “Peace…
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  By Manuel Alberto Ramy The concert Peace Without Borders was a rousing success. How to measure it? By the numbers that packed the venue, which, according to official estimates voiced…
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By Manuel E. Yepe From WalterLippmann.com Who is this monster, the United States’ worst enemy in South America, who is worse than Fidel Castro and Osama bin Laden? Who…
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From Havana By Manuel Alberto Ramy Apropos my article “Everything and the kitchen sink” (Sept. 10), a reader posed to me several questions about the possibility that “a dialogue be…
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By Luis Sexto The common perception and my daily contact with Cubans (like one of many) allow me to draw this conclusion: many people continue to give a chance to the humanist nucleus…
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By Robert Reich From Robert Reich’s blog The real political race for health care has just begun. The significance of the President's speech to Washington insiders was its signal about…
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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com Anderson’s homicidal fantasy epitomizes a much larger phenomenon that started even before Obama was elected and seems to have reached a crescendo…
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By Saul Landau Like all ghosts, Osama bin Laden remains illusive. After eight years of failure by CIA and military seekers, the tall, skinny bearded one’s image still glows evil.…
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