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Colegios privados se apropian del presupuesto de las escuelas públicas
June 28, 2019"Es indignante que colegios que cobran matrículas exhorbitantes y se encuentran en crisis económica aspiren a salvar su situación a costa del dinero de los estudiantes de escuela pública", señaló la portavoz de la FMPR.
Read moreThe majority of striking actors are not known by their names
July 24, 2023The journeymen, known by their faces, talk about why they are striking.
Read moreEDITORIAL: Independence for Puerto Rico
September 22, 2006Today, Puerto Rico is a U.S. colony. In the final document of its just-completed summit conference in Havana, the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries reiterated its support for the right of the Puerto Rico nation to independence and self-determination. The affirmation by most of the world’s countries of Puerto Rico’s right to be free and sovereign came just before the 138th anniversary of El Grito de Lares, the historic Sept. 23,...
Read moreConnecticut senators fight for Puerto Rico
January 10, 2018Two Connecticut Democratic senators are working as a tag team to keep Puerto Rico on the front burner.
Read morePuerto Rico fights federal death penalty
June 19, 2003New Analysis U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft has called on federal prosecutors to be more aggressive in seeking the death penalty, provoking angry denunciations from civil libertarians all over the U.S. and, indeed, the world. In Puerto Rico, the decision to push for the death penalty in the impending trial of Hector Acosta and Joel Rivera, accused of murdering a storekeeper is becoming a critical national struggle. The last time...
Read morePuerto Rico remains a colony, panel says
July 06, 2007The colonial status of Puerto Rico is once again coming up for review by the United Nations General Assembly. The UN’s Special Decolonization Committee placed the issue on the larger body’s agenda by unanimously adopting a resolution June 14. The resolution was sponsored by Cuba and Venezuela. The Special Committee, as it has done for decades, reaffirmed the right of Puerto Rico to independence and self-determination. The committee acted after...
Read moreColonialism bears bitter fruit in Puerto Rico
March 20, 2017The U.S. government board controlling Puerto Rican finances has approved a plan that extracts $800 million per year from the island in interest payments and orders pension reductions and layoffs.
Read moreSantorum played the clown in Puerto Rico
March 19, 2012The minute Santorum opened his mouth, he managed to infuse an unusual degree of unity in the Puerto Rican political scene, around the following concept: Santorum is an ass.
Read morePuerto Rico: Maestros luchan por escuelas públicas
April 20, 2017La mayoría de los estudiantes puertorriqueños y sus familias viven en estado de pobreza y más de 140,000 reciben servicios de educación especial. Las escuelas son los lugares donde estos estudiantes reciben y tienen acceso a la educación, a sus libros, a sus maestros, su comunidad y a por lo menos, dos comidas saludables al día.
Read morePuerto Rico necesita un Plan Marshall
October 15, 2017Así como están las cosas, los puertorriqueños se sienten abandonados por su gobierno federal en su momento de mayor necesidad.
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