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The Party’s Over in Puerto Rico (OPINION)

Susanne Ramirez de Arellano — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 20:22:09 +0000

With a generational shift against the status quo, a growing reluctance among Puerto Ricans to see their islands become part of an increasingly authoritarian nation, and now a battle between its two leading figures —Gov. Pedro Pierluisi and Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González-Colón, a Trump supporter— the ruling pro-statehood New Progressive Party's days seem numbered.

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The Mirage of Puerto Rico’s Panoramic Route

Centro de Periodismo Investigativo — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 16:30:12 +0000

The tour through the mountains offers Puerto Rico’s most emblematic natural views, while reflecting government abandonment, the slow pace of post-Hurricane María reconstruction, and the urgency of funds for a new management plan.

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Puerto Rico’s PIP, MVC Form New Coalition Against Electoral Code

Carlos Edill Berríos Polanco — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 17:08:47 +0000

On Tuesday, the Citizens’ Victory Movement and the Puerto Rican Independence Party announced a formal collaboration to address grievances against the 2020 electoral law and its proposed amendments, which were passed by the Puerto Rico House of Representatives later that day.

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Puerto Rico Agriculture Secretary Has Direct Links to Company that Sells Equipment to Farmers Using Federal Funds

Centro de Periodismo Investigativo — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 20:00:34 +0000

Agro Power, a farm equipment company owned by Puerto Rico's Agriculture Secretary Ramón González Beiró, has earned over $100,000 in sales of equipment purchased by farmers through the federal Re-Grow PR Urban-Rural Agriculture Program.

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Afro/Black Latinx People the Missing Pieces of National Museum of the American Latino (OPINION)

Rosa Clemente — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 16:07:53 +0000

From its board of 15 to its chairman’s advisory council of 20 and its staff of five and over 100 partners, there is no broad representation of Afro/Black Latino, Latina, and Latinx people. We are not represented in any significant way.

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Expensive Evaluation to ‘Transform’ University of Puerto Rico’s Medical Sciences Campus

Centro de Periodismo Investigativo — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 15:13:14 +0000

The meetings of the committee appointed to evaluate the operations of the campus were paid for with the Office of Institutional Transformation budget, whose operation from 2019 to date has cost $2,126,284.

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Puerto Rican Utopia, Cuba Redux (OPINION)

Susanne Ramirez de Arellano — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 18:48:40 +0000

History has a way of repeating itself, and in many ways Batista's Cuba is echoed in today's Puerto Rico.

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OPINION: The Business of Puerto Rico’s Statehood Party

Pedro Cabán — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 17:01:43 +0000

Don Quixote’s elusive quest is a fitting metaphor for Puerto Rico’s statehood movement.

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Colombia’s Tax Reform Reveals the Hidden Power of Credit Agencies Throughout the Americas

Guest Contributor — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 17:56:45 +0000

“Credit rating agencies try to have a qualitative and scientific vision for rating sovereign debt,” Giovanni Rodríguez of Colombia's National University told Latino Rebels. “They have very practical methodologies which are easy to follow. But in the end. these agencies, far from making objective ratings, use ratings that are based in political and subjective logic.”

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Despite Writing to Smithsonian That He Was ‘Appalled,’ Former Puerto Rico Governor Says He Did Not Call for Cancellation of Diaspora Summit

Julio Ricardo Varela — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 02:22:22 +0000

"I did not request for the cancellation of the event," Luis Fortuño said.

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