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Disgraced Puerto Rican governor Ricardo Rosselló is slated to leave office today. It’s a victory for the mass protest movement — but as elites struggle to name a successor, the colony’s future remains uncertain.
For weeks, Puerto Rico has been rocked by mass protests against the governor, Ricardo (...)
The discredit attained by the dominant parties, by the legislature, by the “politicians” and even “politics” itself, defined inaccurately, but viscerally despised by many people, recalls the concept of “organic crisis” advanced by the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci. Authors such as Stathis (...)
The toppling of Puerto Rico’s centrist governor is a beautiful display of people power. The next target: La Junta, the Washington-imposed board pushing austerity and privatization.
What has happened on the streets of old San Juan and the distant west coast and mountain towns of Puerto Rico has (...)
One of the largest mass mobilizations Puerto Rico has ever seen exploded after almost 900 pages of transcripts of leaked online chats between Governor Ricardo Rosselló and a group of his cronies, in and out of government, were published on the Internet July 13.
The leaked documents were (...)
A political scandal recently pushed thousands of Puerto Rican people into the streets to march under the catchword ‘Ricky Renuncia!’, Ricardo, quit! - Ricardo Rossello is the island’s current governor.
On 11 July 2019, an anonymous source published personal messages from the governor’s Telegram (...)
We express our solidarity with the people of Puerto Rico in their struggle against the corrupt government of Governor Ricardo Rosselló. Friday [19 July] marked seven days of massive protests demanding the resignation of the governor and his associates. Despite tear gas attacks, rubber bullets, (...)
Battered by scandal and exhausted by austerity, they seek to determine their own political future.
This week has been unlike any other in Puerto Rican history. An estimated 500,000 demonstrators filled Old San Juan’s cobblestone streets on Wednesday to demand the resignation of Governor Ricardo (...)
The ongoing protests in Puerto Rico are not just about profane chat messages—they are a response to a broader context of violence, degradation, and exploitation.
Puerto Rico Protests (Photo by José Fuentes)
Police donning anti-riot gear—many with their names and badge numbers covered—used (...)
One powerful hurricane robbed millions of Americans of reliable access to basic necessities. Almost a year later the psychological effects are still being felt
Shaina kisses her son Keydiel, five, in the yard of the school he attends in Yabucoa, Puerto Rico. Photograph: Angel Valentin for (...)
The 109th annual convention of the NAACP recently approved a resolution supporting statehood for Puerto Rico . The text refers to a similar statement adopted by its previous annual convention a year ago and ratified by its National Board of Directors in October 2017.
This resolution is a (...)
The struggle has become more urgent in Puerto Rico since the disaster caused by Hurricane María that still affects the island—and in response, Gov. Ricardo Rosselló’s government and federal authorities are cracking down on the resistance of teachers, students and others against austerity imposed by (...)
BEFORE HURRICANE MARIA smashed into Puerto Rico with devastating force, the previous Hurricane Irma caused relatively manageable damage compared to its horrific impact in much of the Caribbean. Even so, the island’s electrical grid — before Maria utterly destroyed it — had already suffered outages (...)
Hurricanes Irma and Maria devastated Puerto Rico in September, destroying homes, crops and communications. Many weeks later, power has been restored to fewer than 20 percent of homes. A third of the population still lacks reliable drinking water.
I am an economist and have followed the (...)
Dear Friends:
By now you have surely heard about the catastrophic impact of Hurricane María in Puerto Rico, as well as the slow and still inadequate response by U.S. federal agencies, such as FEMA.
A month after María, dozens of communities are still inaccessible by car or truck. Close to 90 (...)
The island has become a target not only for rapacious vulture funds but also for exponents of Katrina-style “disaster capitalism.”
Hurricane Maria has created a humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico. Much of the capital city of San Juan is flooded ; there is contaminated water in the streets, (...)
Lider Restrepo writes from New York City on the political storm that broke out over the honoring of Oscar López Rivera at this year’s Puerto Rican Day Parade.
Puerto Rican political prisoner Oscar López Rivera was finally released this March from federal custody after 36 years behind bars—only to (...)
International Call to Struggle and for Solidarity against the Imposition of the Oversight Board (Junta) in Puerto Rico
We invite the international community and the Puerto Rican diaspora to join us in struggle and solidarity with Puerto Rico’s present situation.
Let’s remember that Puerto Rico (...)
Last year the Governor of Puerto Rico announced it just didn’t have the money to repay its $72 billion debt, on bonds owed in the main to U.S. financiers. On May 2, it defaulted on $400 million due on that date. Another $2 billion is due on June 1. In this past year the Puerto Rican government (...)
After ten years of economic contraction, many of the citizens of Puerto Rico find themselves watching the secular decomposition of a reality that in its heyday was painted by many as one of relative socio-economic welfare. The latest economic downturn of the island, which predated the so-called (...)
PUERTO RICO HAS been in the news lately, particularly the financial news. The possibility that its government may default on part of its $73 billion public debt has drawn the attention of Wall Street analysts. The New York Times has deemed the situation worthy of several editorials.
More often (...)
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