Puerto Rico se estanca en sus metas de generación de electricidad con sol y viento, y el alto costo de la luz que ofrecen las compañías choca con el plan de reducir la tarifa eléctrica

This afternoon Puerto Rican governor Luis Fortuño formally requested a recount of the election he conceded two weeks ago to governor-elect Alejandro García Padilla. Puerto Rican Governor Luis Fortuño According to a breaking news report by Puerto Rico's El Nuevo Día, the electoral head of island's pro-statehood New Progressive Party (PNP), Edwin Mundo, said that […]

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AT JULIORVARELA.COM Last night the island of Puerto Rico experienced a historic election. Not only did Puerto Ricans go to the polls to vote for Governor, Resident Commissioner, and other legislative positions, they also voted in yet another non-binding plebiscite that tried to determine whether Puerto Ricans favored its current commonwealth relationship with […]

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

“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.”

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

El informe, que quedó terminado y firmado por Longo Quiñones, también refiere al FEI al secretario de Estado, Elmer Román, según fuentes del CPI.

My faith in the PNP and the statehood movement as a whole was resurrected primarily because of one person: former senator Zoé Laboy.

Años de promesas y estrategias fallidas han dejado la infraestructura de Puerto Rico en su estado más vulnerable en décadas frente a huracanes, terremotos y una pandemia. A pesar de que se pregona y se proyecta la necesidad de hacer obra pública, los números reflejan que poco se ha invertido en este renglón en este decenio. Hoy, el Gobierno y la Junta carecen de recursos y de un plan integrado para acelerar y ejecutar la inversión en capital que necesita la isla.

If it seems peculiar to you that the Republican and Democratic parties host presidential primaries in Puerto Rico, a non-incorporated territory of the U.S. whose residents cannot vote in the general election, you are not alone.

En los últimos seis años, más de $300 millones en fondos públicos han ido a consultores relacionados a la AEE que establecen la pauta en el manejo de la corporación pública.

En las primeras elecciones en las que pudieron haber votado ganó Ricardo Rosselló, y hoy demuestran que saben que pueden despedirlo.

SAN JUAN — There is a multimillion-dollar corruption network behind the Telegram chat between Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló-Nevares and some of his closest collaborators.

No es solo el presidente racista Donald Trump sino también el Gobernador de Puerto Rico quien parece nuestro peor enemigo.