Puerto Rico

Deporting children now held in cages. Denying Puerto Rico money for reconstruction after a natural disaster. Cutting off aid to Central American countries. Eliminating health care for…
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A contract granted by PREPA awarding $700 million to Miami-based MasTec raised the island's Federal Fiscal Control Board flags. It was given without providing details on the magnitude…
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In its newest proposed fiscal plan (released May 30), Puerto Rico’s fiscal oversight and management board appears set to use disaster relief funding to finance debt, while proceeding…
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The action taken by the U.S. Congress to counteract Puerto Rico's deep and prolonged recession has led to an even more severe debt crisis. Reflecting the standard colonialist view,…
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On Jan. 4, the island’s government has to pay creditors nearly $1 billion, money it does not have. It is why Congress should change the law that excludes Puerto Rico from bankruptcy…
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There is the another Caribbean blockade. It is the one imposed on Puerto Rico in 1898 by the U.S. It has had really devastating consequences on the island.
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Waleska Rivera has visited Cuba three times this year. She's the president of Danosa, the first (and only) Puerto Rican company to participate in the Havana International Trade Fair.
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Puerto Rico, one of a handful of western colonies remaining in the world and the United States’ largest colony, suffers from its current fiscal crisis because of its 117 year-old,…
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It is a battle in which Latin America, now moving along the roads of a new era, has an inescapable obligation; and it will be waged with the same determination of the indomitable…
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It is the abandonment of the truth, justice and life itself, my father's and my family's. With their acts, they abandon us every day. And we're going to remind them -- every day.
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