Reporting, analysis, vision & strategy bearing on or emanating from Puerto Rico.
When President Trump announced that the CIA had been authorized to conduct operations inside Venezuela, just as U.S drones struck another small…
Earlier this month, Andrew G. Biggs, Arthur J. Gonzalez, and Betty A. Rosa, three members of Puerto Ricoās Financial Oversight and Management…
The struggle for life is taking new and interesting twists in Puerto Rico. The last few months have seen an escalation in…
The special significance of elections taking place in Puerto Rico on November 5 was evident beforehand. A commentator detected from opinion polls that, āThis election…
In recent years Puerto Rico was put into the spotlight by the devastation brought by hurricane Maria and the horrendously inadequate federal…
November 5 will see elections not just in the United States but in Puerto Rico, the island that has been a colony…
Puerto Rico has been a territory of the United States since the 1898 Spanish-American War. It had only US-appointed governors until 1948,…
On December 10, more than 4,000 people filled the main hall at the Puerto Rico Convention Center in San Juan for the…
Poverty in Puerto Rico, under US colonialism, is getting worse over time, not better. More than two-fifths of Puerto Ricans suffer from…
Leer en espaƱol. For two weeks after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in 2017, Lucyās Pizza was the only restaurant open in…
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