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  1. Puerto Rico: Debt crisis comes to a head as humanitarian crisis worsens

    liberation Socialism Barry Sheppard Last year, Puerto Rico's governor announced it simply did not have ... pay for basic services has increased. Despite Puerto Rico being poorer than any of the 50 states, ... charge of Medicare and Medicaid announced that it was slashing its allotment to Puerto Rico by 11%, while ...

  2. Puerto Rico: Free Oscar Lopez Rivera!

    support of freedom and independence for Puerto Rico, which is still claimed by the US. Lopez Rivera was ... Lopez Rivera has the support of a broad section of Puerto Rico’s civil society, as well as the Puerto ... boards of many locales in the US and Puerto Rico; the mayors of many towns in the US and Puerto Rico ...

  3. National strike in Puerto Rico

    By César Ayala GUAYNABO, Puerto Rico Thousands of demonstrators on 150 picket lines across Puerto ... Rico have popularised the slogan "Puerto Rico no se vende" — "Puerto Rico is not for ... sale", or "Puerto Rico does not sell out". The slogan expresses the broad popular sentiment ...

  4. PUERTO RICO: US Navy clears protesters from Vieques

    spread, several thousand people gathered in protest in San Juan, Puerto Rico's capital, shouting ... and at the University of Puerto Rico's main campus. Solidarity actions also occurred in New York. ... Formally, Puerto Rico is a commonwealth in free association with the US; in reality, the territory is run as ...

  5. Puerto Rico defaults on debt

    the US colony of Puerto Rico has gone into default, Moody's Investors Service said on August 3. ... can also like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter. Puerto Rico August 9, 2015 1064 World ... owned by residents through credit unions. Many Puerto Ricans have abandoned the island in search of ...

  6. PUERTO RICO: US Navy pushed out of Vieques

    BY ROBERTO BARRETO PUERTO RICO — The people of Vieques have won an important victory over the US ... — including the highest cancer rate in Puerto Rico. So far, the navy has offered only US$2 million to clean up ... dollars. That is why the struggle for Vieques is not over. The people of Puerto Rico won't even get to ...

  7. Political prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera’s release highlights Puerto Rico’s liberation struggle

    all political tendencies in Puerto Rico, from the socialist left, to the Green-ish Independence Party, ... suffered under for centuries. Anti-colonial spirit The roots of the FALN lie in Puerto Rico’s violently ... a pro-independence rally to be held at Madison Square Garden and three days before hearings about Puerto Rico ...

  8. Puerto Rico: Student strike faces attack

    Students & education issues By May 18, students at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) had ... the coalition Todo Puerto Rico por Puerto Rico. “The goal is to paralyze all 78 municipalities of the ... on the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus issued the following call for support for the ...

  9. PUERTO RICO: Water company near collapse

    BY CARMELO RUIZ-MARRERO SAN JUAN — The Puerto Rico Aqueducts and Sewers Authority (PRASA) is on ... various violations of US environmental laws. Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory of the United ... communities in eastern Puerto Rico, has documented the effect of the water crisis on public health. The ...

  10. Puerto Rico: Students’ strike ends in victory

    University of Puerto Rico (UPR) ended in a decisive victory for the students. The students’ inspiring unity, ... to the main UPR campus. Some weeks later, a large number of Puerto Rico’s unions organised a one-day ... transformed Puerto Rico’s political terrain, throwing the widely despised administration of Puerto Rico ...

  11. Maduro meets Bronx community leaders, invites Puerto Rico to join ALBA

    continue it.” Other key moments were Maduro’s calls for Puerto Rico to join the Bolivarian Alliance for the ... Rivera, whose “only crime was to wish for an independent Puerto Rico.” ALBA is the anti-imperialist ... Subscribe to 鶹ӳ now! You can also like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter. Puerto Rico United ...

  12. International news briefs — Argentina; Puerto Rico

    Women lead protests in Vieques VIEQUES, Puerto Rico — A group of 26 demonstrators, led by women, broke ... threatened the health of all Vieques residents. "As Puerto Rican women, our consciences won't let ... on land which belongs to the Puerto Rican people and the families of Vieques, she said. Also present ...

  13. PUERTO RICO: Workers fight mass sackings

    two weeks. On May 1, the Puerto Rican government laid off 95,000 employees, closing down the public ...

  14. The Young Lords, revolutionary Puerto Ricans in 1960's New York

    Caribbean North America Refugees & migrants Welfare Barry Healy Puerto Rico Young Lords The Young ... The Young Lords, a radical 1960's movement of Puerto Rican youth in the United States, ... spectacularly arose out of the miserable living conditions into which Puerto Rican immigrants were trapped by US ...

  15. Rapper Residente from Calle 13 slams US racism, Trump

    actually the same country”. On the issue of Puerto Rico, Residente branded it “ridiculous” that the ... Puerto Rico’s US-appointed oversight board approved on March 13 a revised version of a fiscal plan ... measures through more cuts to public spending. Puerto Rico’s status as a US colony forbids it from making ...

  16. After 36 years, US finally frees Puerto Rican political prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera

    has been jailed in the US for 36 years for his struggle to free Puerto Rico from US colonial rule. ... a White House source, consulted by the EFE news agency. Lopez, born in Puerto Rico in 1943, is an ... a resolution, promoted by Cuba, in which it called for recognition of Puerto Rico's right to independence ...

  17. Puerto Ricans strike against privatisation

    government to privatise the Puerto Rican Telephone Company. There is a broad-based movement in Puerto Rico ... labour force. According to union leaders from the Dominican Republic, who visited Puerto Rico last month, ... acknowledged that it is losing $700,000 a day. The Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, which is to be a minority ...

  18. The deep roots of Latin American solidarity with Palestine

    Israel is carrying out a genocide in Gaza’ Puerto Rico and Palestine: ‘Our struggles are linked’ World ...

  19. Puerto Rican teachers protest closures in face of violence

    of US Congress in 2016 handed dictatorial powers over Puerto Rico to an unelected Fiscal Oversight ... back. Since then, while teacher strikes spread on the mainland, teachers in Puerto Rico have also ramped ... in Puerto Rico before the hurricane? Well, the seven members from the PROMESA Financial Oversight and ...

  20. Chilean Communist Party’s founding celebrated

    in Gaza, protesters demand Labor cut ties Puerto Rico and Palestine: ‘Our struggles are linked’ News ...

  21. Campaign seeks human rights for Puerto Rican prisoners

    seditious conspiracy to forcefully overthrow the United States authority in Puerto Rico, in effect since the ... the release of the 15 prisoners is being waged both within and outside Puerto Rico and the United ... tendencies. The campaign's new proposal is to collect some 600,000 signatures in Puerto Rico, the United ...

  22. Australian Greens MPs, unionists sign on to demand Russian anti-war activist Boris Kagarlitsky's freedom

    Germany, India, Ireland, Malaysia, Pakistan, Peru, Puerto Rico, Quebec, Russia, Spain and elsewhere. Other ...

  23. Union officials end Puerto Rican strike

    Puerto Rico Telephone Company (PRTC) ended on July 29. The sale, to US-based General Telephone and ... agenda, designed to win support from the Republic-controlled US Congress for the admission of Puerto Rico ... as the 51st US state — the Puerto Rican public lose around $80 million a year. This money has in the ...

  24. Puerto Rican nationalist radiated, says family

    experiments in Puerto Rico where massive numbers of women were sterilised and jungles contaminated by Agent ... Puerto Rican nationalist radiated, says family SAN JUAN — The family of Nationalist leader Pedro ... Albizu Campos, a principal Puerto Rican independence figure of this century, is demanding that the US ...

  25. Puerto Rican telephone strike

    the sale of the Puerto Rico Telephone Company (PRTC) to the demand for no reprisals. On July 16, both ... Puerto Rican telephone strike The Puerto Rican telephone workers' strike against the sale of ...

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