Puerto Rico
For Puerto Rico: Red Sox Manager and several players to skip White House reception
May 9, 2019Championship winning sports teams visiting the White House is a time-honored tradition dating back to Aug. 30, 1865, when then-President Andrew Jonson first hosted the Brooklyn Atlantics and Washington National amateur baseball clubs. Ulysses S. Grant...
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Puerto Rico debt deal: Bondholders get paid, future of public services uncertain
February 5, 2019A federal bankruptcy judge approved a major debt restructuring plan for Puerto Rico on Monday in the first deal of its kind for the U.S. territory since the island’s government declared nearly four years ago that...
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Former NYC Health Commissioner Mary Bassett to headline People’s World awards luncheon
December 4, 2018On Sunday, December 9, 2018, The New York Friends of People’s World will hold their annual “Better World Awards” luncheon.
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Detener la traición de servidores públicos
November 20, 2018AFSCME demanda a Puerto Rico para detener la traición de servidores públicos.
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Searing indictment delivered of U.S. colonialism in Puerto Rico
November 14, 2018Puerto Ricans and supporters described the disastrous inequities suffered by the people of Puerto Rico as a result of the colonial relationship with the United States.
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