In 2018, nearly a year after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, reports surfaced that piles of food and supplies from the Federal Government were left to rot in semi truck trailers, and ended up eaten by rats and other vermin. This was while San Juan mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz used every opportunity to try to […]
Well, it’s finally happened. Puerto Rico’s arrogant, condescending, deplorables-deploring governor, who got caught sending disparaging messages about Puerto Rican hurricane victims on a bulletin board limited to just his inner-circle cronies, is on his way out. He’s the first Puerto Rican governor to be thrown out this way, and the 500,000-strong protests on the tiny island that led up to it […]
What New Orleans, Houston and Puerto Rico have in common. Daniel Greenfield We’ve seen this show before. When there’s a national disaster, neighborhoods have been reduced to rubble, shelters are filled with crying families, and a Republican is in the White House, the Democrats jump into action. Not to help, but to make political capital […]
Jorge Rodriguez, 49, is the Harvard-educated CEO of PACIV, an international engineering firm based in Puerto Rico that works with the medical and pharmaceutical sectors. The Puerto Rican-born engineer says he has dispatched 50 engineers to help FEMA rehabilitate the devastated island — a commonwealth of the United States — after Hurricane Maria. He refuses […]
English subtitles. A cop from PR was able to get a call through a Hispanic radio station in New York (La Mega). She is telling what she is seeing as a cop in the aftermath or Maria and the government’s injustice playing politics. Workers on the ground in Puerto Rico are saying they are getting threats […]
Just four days ago San Juan, Puerto Rico Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz Soto praised FEMA for the work on the island, but then things got political. Puerto Rico was devastated by Hurricane Irma and then Hurricane Maria a categaory 5 monster hurricane two weeks later. But Caren Yuliz Cruz Soto is a Democrat so she expects everything to be given to […]
Puerto Rico voted overwhelmingly in favor of statehood on Sunday in a referendum that begins the steps toward sending representatives to Washington, D.C. According to The Wall Street Journal, 97 percent of voters chose statehood, though turnout was only about 23 percent. One-and-a-half percent voted for independence from the United States, according to Decision Desk HQ, while […]
A slim majority of Puerto Ricans sought to change their ties with the United States and become the 51st U.S. state in a non-binding referendum that would require final approval from Congress. The two-part referendum asked whether the island wanted to change its 114-year relationship with the United States. Nearly 54 percent, or 922,374 people, sought to change it, while […]
This week marks the anniversary of the last state to join the union, as Hawaii became the 50th state in 1959. In just three months, Puerto Rico faces a similar vote to become the 51st state of the United States. And as of now, the results of its complicated statehood vote on November 6 are […]
Dear Fox and Friends, The next time Mr. Rivera is on your show advocating his vapid ideological drivel as though it might contain some deep geopolitical insight, please point out four things to him: First, “the” problem in the Middle East neither Israel’s unwillingness to return to the pre-1967 war borders nor even the Arab-Israeli […]
