Puerto Ricans

Puerto Rico, the colony, part 2: Puerto Ricans resist

Puerto Rico has been selling itself off since the 1990s, when the telephone company was privatized under Gov. Pedro Rosello.…

June 4, 2015

In New York and Bay Area with one voice: Free Óscar!

Harlem, N.Y. --  The streets of Harlem saw the largest mobilization to date calling for the release of Puerto Rican…

June 2, 2015

Free Óscar López Rivera

At the 2013 funeral of South African President Nelson Mandela, who had been imprisoned by the U.S.-backed apartheid regime in…

May 20, 2015

Relevance of Puerto Rico at the CELAC Summit

On the international level there are many unknowns about the struggle for the independence of Puerto Rico. This often leads…

February 11, 2015

Isabel Rosado: Puerto Rican fighter

Known simply as “Isabelita” or “Doña Isabelita,” throughout her life, Isabel Rosado was an icon of the struggle for Puerto…

January 22, 2015