Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

Today (April 14), U.S. and Cuban representatives will meet in New York to discuss implementation of the U.S.-Cuba Migration Accords. The discussions will focus on how best to promote…
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From Havana By Manuel Alberto Ramy “The man who doesn't say what he thinks is not an honest man.” José Martí A broken man does not speak his own words; he owes his language to…
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By Lorenzo A. Cañizares After watching the debate on the House Bill on climate change, Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize economist and New York Times columnist, referred to the Republican…
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Al’s Loupe Ramblings about democracy as a political marketing tool By Alvaro F. Fernandez alfernandez@the-beach.net I suppose democracy in the 21st century does not necessarily…
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By Mark Weisbrot From The Guardian The Obama administration's condemnation of the military coup by graduates of the School of the Americas in Honduras has been lukewarm compared to…
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By Frances Robles From The Miami Herald On one side of town near the presidential palace, a river of people wearing neatly pressed jeans and new white T-shirts waved kerchiefs as they…
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By Bill Press Good things don't come easily. It took 239 days, but the Minnesota Supreme Court finally declared Al Franken the winner over Norm Coleman. And suddenly Democrats have 60…
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By Max J. Castro The sad, sad life of Michael Jackson is over. Money did not buy him happiness or even peace. But, upon his death, his story monopolized the media for more than a week.…
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By Saul Landau From May 2000 to August 2005, Brazil lost more Amazon land to “development” than all of Greece. Since 1971, corporate ranchers and agribusiness cleared tens of thousands…
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By Jorge Gómez Barata In terms of the political evolution in the hemisphere and beyond, I don't remember any other time in history where the rift between the past and the future, in the…
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