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Changes and challenges for Puerto Ricans in the U.S.

March 11, 2011 By Elena Mora

A recent article by Angelo Falcon, president of the National Institute for Latino Policy, entitled, "Challenges Facing Stateside Puerto Ricans in the 21st Century," reveals both new features and persistent problems.

Puerto Rico: police violence against striking students

February 11, 2011 By Emile Schepers

Pepper spray and clubs were the methods used by police in Puerto Rico against protesting students.

Human rights group urges action on parole for Oscar Lopez

January 28, 2011 By Emile Schepers

Only days remain for the public to ask for the United States Parole Commission to grant parole to a Puerto Rican independence activist who has now spent 29 years in a federal penitentiary in Florence, Colo.

Student strike in Puerto Rico met with repression

January 10, 2011 By Emile Schepers

College students in Puerto Rico are on strike against the neoliberal education policies implenmented by the country's conservative and right-wing governor.

Puerto Rican independence leader Juan Mari Bras dies at 82

September 14, 2010 By Mike Melia

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Juan Mari Bras, an elder statesman of Puerto Rico's independence movement who gave up U.S. citizenship in an act that inspired hundreds of other activists, died Friday, Sept. 10. He...