Puerto Rico

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Puerto Rico

Uprising in Puerto Rico in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle commemorated

November 8, 2023 Berta Joubert-Ceci
This past Monday, October 30, the Puerto Rican independence movement commemorated, like every year on this date, the Jayuya Insurrection of 1950 led by the Nationalist Party. Although the Grito de Lares of 1868 is […]
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Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico before the UN in Geneva

November 6, 2023 Berta Joubert-Ceci
The fight for our sovereignty and independence, although increasingly uphill, is carried out every day from different scenarios: in agriculture, where young people try to rescue the land to ensure a future with food sovereignty; […]
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Puerto Rico

Puerto Rican organizations testify before UN Decolonization Committee

June 28, 2023 Berta Joubert-Ceci
This past week, the UN Decolonization Committee held a hearing on what has been called the Puerto Rico case on Puerto Rico’s inalienable right to self-determination and independence. Since the UN passed Resolution 1514 (XV) […]
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Puerto Rico

Repression in Puerto Rico

May 7, 2023 Struggle - La Lucha
This week the priorities of this government have been very clearly exposed: on the one hand, the unjustified arrest of three well-known leaders of the union and people’s struggle during the May 1st demonstrations; and […]
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Día de Reyes en Puerto Rico

January 9, 2023 Berta Joubert-Ceci
Hay una campaña publicitaria sobre Puerto Rico donde se indica que tenemos las Navidades más largas del mundo, y en parte es así. Se celebran desde el último jueves de noviembre hasta mediados de enero. […]
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Puerto Rico

Puerto Rican prisoner of conscience, Ana Belén Montes, to be released

January 5, 2023 Peoples Dispatch
Puerto Rican political prisoner Ana Belén Montes is set to be released from a federal prison in Texas on January 8, 2023. This upcoming release marks a victory for the movement to free Puerto Rican […]
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Puerto Rico

‘Yankees want the cage but not the birds’

October 7, 2022 Yunus Soner
U.S. President Joseph Biden visited the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico on October 4 to examine the damage caused by hurricane Fiona. He promised all help to the island, which is a so-called “unincorporated organized […]
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Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico in the grip of Hurricane Fiona, Pierluisi and Luma

October 3, 2022 Berta Joubert-Ceci
On Sunday, Sept. 18, just as the country remembered the fifth anniversary of the devastation of Hurricane Maria, another hurricane, Fiona, devastated the island. But these phenomena have no comparison. Maria was a category 5 […]
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Puerto Rico

International solidarity with the people of Puerto Rico

September 26, 2022 Struggle - La Lucha
On behalf of the Delegation of Puerto Rico Press statement International organizations stand in solidarity with the People of Puerto Rico and demand the government’s compliance with the well-being of the population of this Caribbean […]
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Puerto Rico

FBI persecution continues

September 10, 2022 El Comité Solidaridad con Cuba en Puerto Rico
Thursday, September 08, 2022  The Committee in Solidarity with Cuba in Puerto Rico (CSC) has received dozens of national and international messages of support referring to the recent campaign of harassment by the U.S. government […]