Puerto Rico

Latino Rebels Radio: November 12, 2019.

The audit of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) published on September 30, 2019 details how two of its districts —Hunstville and Jacksonville— failed to supervise and review the contracts, invoices and work performed by companies Fluor Enterprises and PowerSecure in Puerto Rico.

“Since I was a kid, I would just be like, ‘How do you get to be so fabulous and so queer and so strange and be on like television and be watched by my family and a lot of Latinos in the United States,” Celia Sagastume told Latino USA.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — FBI agents arrested Puerto Rico Senator Abel Nazario and seven other people early Wednesday as part of an investigation into corruption in the U.S. territory.

Estos fallos llevaron a que el Cuerpo de Ingenieros les pagara $20.9 millones a Fluor Enterprises y $29.2 millones a PowerSecure.

And here we go. In a classic case of political Macondo mediocrity, it looks like some factions of Puerto Rico’s pro-statehood party are trying to forget this past summer’s historic protests that led to the sudden resignation of governor Ricardo Rosselló. The latest example? Former Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi—yes, the same Pierluisi who claimed the […]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Walter Mercado, a flamboyant astrologer and television personality whose daily TV appearances entertained many across Latin America and the U.S. for more than a decade, has died. He was 87.

“The employee then refused to authorize the transaction and told him that his form of ID was not accepted because it was not a valid US identification,” Arlene Payano Burgos noted in an October 25 public Facebook post.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The secretary of Puerto Rico’s Department of Natural Resources is stepping down just days after announcing that her office is the target of an FBI investigation.

Good luck on all of you who think this bill has any hope. Because it doesn’t.

The incorporated territory step has never offered a real or meaningful solution to the question of Puerto Rico.

Puerto Ricans should have all the facts about small modular nuclear reactors before making critical decisions about their energy future.

Amendments proposed in Congressional hearing reinforce “modern-day colonial relationship.”

This is not the first time that David Galarza Santa has appeared on video.

Lawmakers say that “action on the Insular Cases is long overdue.”

Latino Rebels Radio: October 17, 2019

The constitutional framework constructed by the court since the Spanish-American War not only allows for colonialism, it justifies it.

The Puerto Rican community is guilty of ignorance against some of the most marginalized in the world.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seems likely to leave in place the oversight board established by Congress to help Puerto Rico out of a devastating financial crisis that was deepened by Hurricane Maria in 2017.

New PRpolicy.org microsite will allow voters to examine candidates’ proposals on Puerto Rico issues.

That’s not a democracy, and we won’t stay silent.