Gentrification, the process of high-income people moving into traditionally low-income neighborhoods and fixing up the properties they buy, has a lot in common with colonialism.… Read More »Gentrification and Colonialism in Puerto Rico
On Sunday, members of the New Progressive Party (NPP) convened at the Santa María Magdalena de Pazzis Cemetery in Old San Juan to celebrate the… Read More »Pro-Statehood Passions on Display on Barbosa’s Birthday
Puerto Rico, with input from the U.S. Congress, produced a constitution for the territory on July 25, 1952. The constitution made no change in the… Read More »The Significance of the Puerto Rico Constitution
At a hearing of the House Natural Resources Committee in 2023, members of Congress discussed the threats to U.S. national security arising from China’s involvement… Read More »When Congress Considered – and Rejected – a Path to U.S. Citizenship for Freely Associated States
On June 25, 2025, Governor Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon signed the first certified balanced budget bill since the PROMESA Financial Oversight and Management Board (FOMB) was established… Read More »Puerto Rico’s Balanced Budget Bill
The Subcommittee on Insular and Indian Affairs of the US. House of Representatives Committee on Natural Resources held a hearing today to assess the progress… Read More »Puerto Rico’s Financial Oversight Board and the Territory’s Future
Bad Bunny’s month-long residency in Puerto Rico is creating a tourism boom and bringing money to the Island at the same time that it is… Read More »Bad Bunny and Hawaii
The House Committee on Natural Resources has announced an oversight hearing on Wednesday, July 16 to examine “Puerto Rico’s Fiscal Recovery Under PROMESA and the… Read More »House Natural Resources Committee Announces Hearing on Puerto Rico
Recent headlines have put the tiny Reunification with Spain movement in front of stateside news hounds again. Meanwhile, less attention is being paid to the… Read More »The Basque Independence Movement and Puerto Rico Reunification with Spain
