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These debt negotiations should not put profits over people.

The hearing involves more than $17 billion worth of debt backed by sales-tax bonds that the government issued, representing nearly a third of the island’s overall bonded debt.

Migrants leaving Central America routinely cite widespread poverty, lack of opportunity and rampant gang violence as their motivation.

Reyna’s Perdomo song has become the unofficial anthem of Venezuelans who have left their country.

Mientras el número de detenciones de inmigrantes indocumentados ha aumentado en la Isla según varios abogados de inmigración, la falta de transparencia del gobierno federal mantiene a Puerto Rico a ciegas.

Brazilians will no longer have to explain their desire for a gun to a police official, and each person can own four guns, up from two.

About 500 people, including dozens of children, lined up to show their documents to a first line of unarmed security personnel at the Agua Caliente border crossing Tuesday night.

A deep conversation about a decades-long story.

Roundups of undocumented immigrants in Puerto Rico have been on the rise, according to immigration attorneys, as the federal government’s lack of transparency keeps Puerto Ricans in the dark about the number of people affected.

“Down at the border, they’re gonna put up a wall.”

I began to have very real realizations that this thing I had rejected was suddenly the thing that was going to keep me nourished and healthy

The organization Colectiva Feminista en Construcción has been working tirelessly to bring attention to the issue of violence against women in Puerto Rico

He says that when he was a student 15 years ago, classroom sizes were much smaller.

“Proper journalism gives subjects a voice, rather than reducing the voice of an entire minority to the that of an American man with a microphone and background noises of splashing water,” said Hugo Balta.

Since his trip to Chile last year, the Vatican and the Chilean Church have taken steps to ameliorate the scandal.

It has the power to stop this abuse by allowing a citizen and democratic audit of all the debt.

It said late Monday the debt includes all general obligation bonds that were issued in 2012 and 2014 in “clear violation” of debt limits established by the island’s Constitution.

It has had a devastating effect on owners and employees of the country’s 24,185 private bed-and-breakfasts and 2,170 private restaurants known as paladares.

Look, I like me some 60s rock and have belted out The Byrd’s “Turn, Turn, Turn” with my kids in the car. And we’ve ridden around bouncing to Selena’s cumbias. But hearing that 60s classic and “Baila esta cumbia” as Julián Castro’s entrance and exit themes on Saturday seemed… soooooo… awkward. Before you start, I […]

Some residents and local rights groups say the killers were gang members working with corrupt police to seize territory in the La Saline gang war.

It began officially at 7am local time on Monday, January 14. Rain and tacos greeted picketers.