Puerto Rico – Struggle

Down with the Fiscal Control Board!

August 10, 2025 Berta Joubert-Ceci

Since the U.S. Congress, under the Obama administration, imposed a Fiscal Oversight Board on Puerto Rico in 2016 to force us to pay an alleged public debt of more than $90 billion and supposedly straighten […]

From the rejection of anti-immigrant policies to the rejection of the Escensia Project

June 24, 2025 Berta Joubert-Ceci

Last weekend, here in the U.S. colony of Puerto Rico, thousands of people took to the streets to protest the criminal policies of the local government. While this new administration is taking many actions against […]

Governor Jenniffer González fails

May 31, 2025 Berta Joubert-Ceci

While the independence process is a constant struggle on all fronts, this year in Puerto Rico, we have been forced to face the most incompetent local administration that has taken the reins of the colony […]

The blackout in Puerto Rico

May 3, 2025 Berta Joubert-Ceci

April 17 — This past Wednesday of Holy Week, Puerto Rico experienced — for the second time in just three months — a general blackout. The first was on New Year’s Eve. Since the privatization […]

Executive Order for the Independence of Puerto Rico

March 23, 2025 Berta Joubert-Ceci

The central issue we face in Puerto Rico is our lack of sovereignty as a colony of the United States. This prevents us from developing an economy that sustains our people in a dignified manner, […]

Elecciones de esperanza en Puerto Rico

November 3, 2024 Berta Joubert-Ceci

En esta primera semana de noviembre aquí en Puerto Rico, hay una atmósfera de mucho nerviosismo, pero también de una gran esperanza de cambio. El próximo martes 5 de noviembre serán las elecciones generales y […]

Elections of hope in Puerto Rico

November 3, 2024 Berta Joubert-Ceci

This first week of November, here in Puerto Rico, one can feel an atmosphere of both nervousness and profound hope for change. Next Tuesday, November 5th, general elections will be held, and everything indicates that […]

Promise of change in Puerto Rico

October 13, 2024 Berta Joubert-Ceci

With each passing day, Puerto Rico sinks deeper into a neoliberal process that threatens its very existence. From the purely geological issue, with supposed legal approvals for construction in coastal locations that involve the removal […]

Consequences of colonialism in Puerto Rico (Borikén)

August 16, 2024 Berta Joubert-Ceci

From the Aug. 16 Vanguard newspaper in Abuja, Nigeria, on the International Conference for the Eradication of Colonialism, which was held in Abuja, Nigeria, from August 12-13, 2024: “It pointedly reminded those who are free […]

Strike at Suiza Dairy, a question of food sovereignty

July 17, 2024 Berta Joubert-Ceci

NOTE: At the time of finishing this article, it was reported that the PR Police’ Tactical Unit Force had arrested 16 protesters in front of the gates of the Swiss Dairy to make way for […]

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