SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico announced Wednesday that it will broaden its classification of COVID-19 deaths to include suspected cases that were never confirmed, addressing a problem of undercounting also seen around the world.

“The official number will be updated once the GW study is out,” Pedro Cerame, a spokesperson for the Puerto Rico’s Federal Affairs Administration, said.

“We don’t have anything of the actual study in our hands. The government doesn’t have anything right now,” a spokesperson said.

Latino Rebels Radio, June 10, 2018

“This staggering loss of American life and the significant variance from officially reported figures points to the need for further oversight.”

The government of Puerto Rico has not made any public data of 2017 mortality statistics since the first week of January.

“The research process so far, including the paperwork related to contractual and data-use agreements, has taken longer than expected,” a spokesperson told Latino Rebels.

Governor Ricardo Rosselló’s decision delayed the publication of a much-anticipated death recount report until May.

“As BuzzFeed News asked the questions, Rosselló’s spokesperson tried to conclude the interview.”

More truth.

“You know, early on, since week number one or two, we already had a lot of evidence that the deaths were skyrocketing.”

“With this, I suggest that the number of total deaths in Puerto Rico is not a fixed one.”

A comment was made 36 hours after requests to both the White House and Department of Homeland Security.

61 days later, we’re still waiting.

All one needs is to visit town halls, police stations, and funeral homes in Puerto Rico’s towns to find them.

Manuel Ortiz, known as “Puerto Rico’s go to guy in Washington,” expressed concern about a letter calling for a formal investigation about the number of people who died, sources told Latino Rebels.

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.

Threatened, arrested, attacked, and shot, Puerto Rico’s environmental activists have endured a lot while trying to enforce the environmental protection laws they feel the government refuses to enforce. Still, most of them refuse to back down.

This is the story of two Puerto Ricos—a phantasmagorical island cooked up by Pierluisi and the one Boricuas endure daily.

The first in a three-part series looking at the attempts made by Pedro Albizu Campos and other local leaders in Puerto Rico to hold a constitutional convention in 1936—the closest the archipelago has come to breaking free of U.S. colonial rule.

A look at the battle over abortion rights in Puerto Rico following the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of ‘Roe v. Wade’ in 2022, which undid nearly 50 years of reproductive rights protections in the United States