Edwin Jusino

Dan Santiago, one of the organizers, said in a written statement in Spanish given to Latino Rebels that “It’s time to create the conditions so that we are recognized.”

As a libertarian, I’m happy to see the spirit of liberty and personal responsibility shining bright.

This decision leaves hundreds of students without their sports scholarships as of this December, according to information given to Latino Rebels by various sources.

Some students have decided to leave the island, and lose their semester.

The Puerto Rican government, from the bottom up, has got to get its act together.

It will be remembered as the oddest presidential visit to Puerto Rico ever.

A new normal?

Unwillingly, Donald J. Trump will become one of the presidents who, whether by choice or pressure, will be remembered for helping Puerto Rico.

He was never a political prisoner, but rather as an active member of the FALN.

It’s complicated.

Yesterday, the Congressional Appropriations Subcommittee approved the Obama administration’s $2.5 million budget for the Justice Department to oversee a federally-sponsored plebiscite in Puerto Rico, according to El Nuevo Día. The proposal states that the Justice Department must oversee a non-partisan voter education plan and  a plebiscite which must include several solutions to the status issue. […]

In 1898, the United States defeated Spain in the Spanish-Cuban-American War. The then-Spanish colonies of the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico were ceded to the United States as part of the Treaty of Paris of 1898 between Spain and the United States. 115 years later, Puerto Rico is still a colonial territory of the United […]