On June 22, the United Nations (UN) Special Committee on Decolonization held its annual meeting to review Puerto Rico’s status as a U.S. colony. Puerto… Read More »UN Special Committee Again Urges End to Puerto Rico’s Status as U.S. Colony
The U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (SENR) held a hearing “to Examine the State of the U.S. Territories” on June 17, 2026.… Read More »U.S. Senate Committee Focuses on Puerto Rico
On June 10, Puerto Rico’s Resident Commissioner in Congress, Pablo José Hernández Rivera, introduced a new bill to address Puerto Rico’s status as a U.S.… Read More »Democrats Disagree on New Status Bill, Call Out the “Colonial Character of the Commonwealth”
On Sunday, the New York Knicks just ended a 53-year drought by claiming the 2026 NBA Championship. Jose Alvarado, born in Brooklyn and of Puerto… Read More »Puerto Rico Day Parade Celebrates Jose Alvarado and the New York Knicks
The Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce Health Policy Conference held on March 20th raised awareness of inequities that have led to healthcare challenges in Puerto… Read More »Reforms Proposed at Puerto Rico’s Health Policy Conference
The 69th annual National Puerto Rican Day Parade will take place this Sunday, June 14, 2026. The organization of the same name claims that this… Read More »National Puerto Rican Day Parade Planned for Sunday
On June 4, the organization Right to Democracy organized a briefing in the U.S. House of Representatives examining the core U.S. principle of “consent of… Read More »The Declaration to End Colonialism in U.S. Territories
On June 9th, 2016, the Supreme Court handed down a decision in a case about illegal sale of firearms that has serious implications for Puerto… Read More »The 10th Anniversary of the Sanchez-Valle Decision
Recent efforts to improve and beautify Old San Juan may be having just the opposite effect — and residents want it to stop. Specifically, they… Read More »Saving the Trees of Old San Juan
