To the Internet through USB
USB memory sticks work as a bridge of information among Cubans
By Jorge Morales and Harold Cárdenas
MATANZAS, CUBA – A few yours ago, after permission was granted to import and buy DVD equipment, USB ports began to flourish. The positive result was the gradual decentralization of information.
A Special Report from Progreso Weekly
June 4, 2012 - On the occasion of the controversy raised by the pastoral line proposed by the Archdiocese of Havana and Cardinal Jaime Ortega, Progreso Weekly has asked for the opinion of several prestigious...
The Cuban-American community: Its future and relations with Cuba
By Jesús Arboleya Cervera
HAVANA – Much is said about the changes taking place in the Cuban-American community as a result of the arrival of the “new émigrés.” In this regard, emphasis is placed on their differences from the so-called “historic exiles,” ...
The street wonders: Any answers?
By Elsa Claro
HAVANA – A decisive semester begins this month. Amid dynamics that go from the street vendor of anything under the sun to the street buyer of “any little piece of gold” to the private restaurants of all categories, the government adopts measures of great size and meaning – but in perspective. In other words, they’re slow to come.
7 similarities between Marco Rubio and Cuban bread:
What follow are some of the answers received…
1. Both claim to be Cuban.
2. On the outside, they appear to be a lot.
3. On the inside, there’s very little (it’s inflated).
4. Initially they seem fresh, flexible, strong.
5. After a few days, when they grow old, they fall apart by simply delving into them, and then they create a dirty mess.
6. They appear good – especially with butter. But it’s fattening and not good for your health.
7. And as the doctors tells us: products made with flour CONTRIBUTE NOTHING TO YOUR ORGANISM.
Back to the future: Election rigging in Florida
By Bill Press
They said it could never happen again. Well, don't look now, but Florida is well on its way to stealing another election.
We all remember Florida 2000. A few months before the election...
From prison
By Danny Glover and Saul Landau
We visited Gerardo Hernandez for the fifth time and, as usual, his spirits seemed higher than ours despite the fact that he resides in a maximum-security federal prison.
Click to continue reading...Obama’s reelection hangs by a thin thread
By Max J. Castro
Last week brought grim news to anyone who believes that a Mitt Romney presidency would be a disaster for this country and the world. The economy, which had been recovering...
Getting Cuba started
An interview with the Rev. Yosvany Carvajal
By the RPA/Progreso Weekly team
HAVANA – The task faced by the Felix Varela Cultural Center (CCFV), run by the Archdiocese of Havana, is a challenge to the present of Cuba, aimed at the future.
David Rivera & Cuban Adjustment Act = U.S. policy schizophrenia
A La Alborada editorial
The Cuban Adjustment Act (CAA), originally intended as a short-term destabilization program, was never expected to last for decades. Soon after going into effect, it was already causing a split personality in U.S. policy towards Cuba. On one hand, the U.S. sticks to its plan of strangling the Cuban economy in order to provoke massive unrest and ultimately an uprising. On the other hand, it grants residency to any Cuban who can make it here with dry feet. Cubans in search of a better income, more consumer goods, life without the blockade, or even the chance to become politicians in the richest country in the world reasonably choose the second option, as did the Mariel boaters and the later balseros. The CAA thus helps to ensure the failure of the blockade.
Rivera amendment would only help break Cuban family ties
MIAMI - Almost 50 percent of family members who travel to Cuba are U.S. residents who have yet to attain citizenship, according to figures released by executives of the travel to Cuba industry in Miami. As a result, the Cuban American Commission for Family Right (CACFR) has issued a warning that a new proposed amendment to the Cuban Adjustment Act, presented by U.S. Rep. David Rivera, would assure that these family ties are severely broken.
“In 2009, President Obama rightfully made family unity and the right of family members to travel a priority of his Cuba policy,” said Alvaro F....
Click to continue reading...No country, no job and no money
By the Progreso Weekly staff
Cuban ex prisoners that left to live in Spain two years ago find themselves unemployed and about to lose the subsidies they receive from the government of Spain, according to an article published Saturday, June 2, in The New York Times.
According to the Times correspondent in Madrid, “After Spain negotiated theirfreedomfrom 
prisonnearly two years ago, 115 Cuban dissidents landed here expressing gratitude for...
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