citizens to vote in the presidential and congressional elections in the U.S. U.S. President Barack Obama swore to resolve Puerto Rico's status during his term and expanded the role of the White House Task Force to include economic and other issues.MarinoJohnCaribbean Business...
SAN JUAN (CBSMiami) – Amid days of protests in Puerto Rico and around the world, a judge issued search warrants on Tuesday for the phones of the government officials who are believed to have been involved in an online chat that ignited political crisis and public uproar in th...
This essay discusses engineering ethics in Puerto Rico by examining the impact of the Colegio de Ingenieros y Agrimensores de Puerto Rico (CIAPR) and by outlining the constellation of problems and issues identified in workshops and retreats held with Puerto Rican engineers. Three cases developed and...
The 95-year-old Perez died as the ambulance drove him back to southwestern Puerto Rico but he is not included in the island's official hurricane death toll of 64 people, a figure at the center of a growing legal and political fight over the response to the Category 4 storm that hit Pue...
He says Puerto Rico has historically suffered a "political culture of anti-independence. We are not supposed to exist… a history of persecution, prosecution, marginalization, imprisonment and political assassinations," which he says explains the fear that so many Puerto Ricans express about the pos...
citizenship for Puerto Ricans in 1917, the establishment of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico in 1952, and ongoing debates over the island’s political issues. Throughout these changes, Puerto Rico has retained a distinct identity, blending Taíno, African, and Spanish influences into a unique ...
Congress and federal courts and dealing with territorial decolonization issues in the U.N. Security Council. Where many of the discussions of Puerto Rico’s status come from people’s feelings and political opinions — and there’s nothing wrong with that — Citizens Without a State comes from ...
political status question all of its other problems will disappear. The problems facing Puerto Rico are many and deep, and no single step in and of itself will solve them. That said, it is important to realize that certain political conditions need to be met in order to fully address our ...
In 1898, after 400 years of colonial rule that saw the indigenous population nearly exterminated and African slave labor introduced, Puerto Rico was ceded to the US as a result of the Spanish-American War. Puerto Ricans were granted US citizenship in 1917. Popularly elected governors have ...
The objective was to examine Puerto Rico's economy and propose strategies for sustainable growth. Although it necessarily touches on political issues at times, no assessment of the alternative political options for the region was intended. Indeed, our economic analyses and proposed growth strategy are...