Puerto Rico se estanca en sus metas de generación de electricidad con sol y viento, y el alto costo de la luz que ofrecen las compañías choca con el plan de reducir la tarifa eléctrica

It’s a different Fortuño.

Last week, Luis Fortuño, the former Republican pro-statehood governor of Puerto Rico, was interviewed by PJ Media in Washington, D.C after an appearance at George Washington University. Fortuño has been living in the DC area since losing his re-election bid in 2012. The question of Puerto Rico’s status question (of course) was discussed, but the […]

This afternoon Puerto Rican governor Luis Fortuño formally requested a recount of the election he conceded two weeks ago to governor-elect Alejandro García Padilla. Puerto Rican Governor Luis Fortuño According to a breaking news report by Puerto Rico's El Nuevo Día, the electoral head of island's pro-statehood New Progressive Party (PNP), Edwin Mundo, said that […]

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AT JULIORVARELA.COM Last night the island of Puerto Rico experienced a historic election. Not only did Puerto Ricans go to the polls to vote for Governor, Resident Commissioner, and other legislative positions, they also voted in yet another non-binding plebiscite that tried to determine whether Puerto Ricans favored its current commonwealth relationship with […]

Yesterday, the website LuisFortuno.com, which used to be the official website of Puerto Rican governor Luis Fortuño's campaign in 2008, appears to have a new owner: Fortuño's major political opponent, the Popular Democratic Party (PPD). The election for governor is this November, and the PPD is pulling no punches. Here is a screen grab of […]

A Guest Post by Raúl Colón (@rj_c) of RaulColon.net In history we have seen how an agent provocateur can cause the masses to create more chaos. Last night I realized how much I had underestimated Puerto Rican Governor Luis Fortuño. He might be working for the Democrats after all.  Being a great spy is about […]

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AT JULIORVARELA.COM August was supposed to be a great month for Puerto Rican Governor and pro-statehood Republican Luis Fortuño. He was supposed to claim victory for changes to Puerto Rico's constitution. He did not, essentially setting himself up for an unsuccessful re-election bid in November against an opponent who quite frankly is not the […]

Maybe the governor of Puerto Rico finally realized that he should take control of his official Facebook page and not let his admins run the page for him. Today, as Puerto Ricans go to the polls for the GOP presidential primary, Fortuño has been posting status updates on his site, urging his fans to go […]

The Luis Fortuño GOP VP Campaign made an appearance on CNN tonight, and the pro-statehood and Republican governor of Puerto Rico said two very telling things tonight when he spoke with Wolf Blitzer. (Sidenote to Wolf: Fortuño is not "popular." Do your homework about the Governor and about Puerto Ricans in general.) The GOP is doing […]

Leave it to Representative Luis Gutiérrez to leave it all out on the floor of the US Congress this week, in light of a scathing Department of Justice report on the police abuse charges in Puerto Rico. Gutiérrez, who has been the lone voice of Congress in exposing the hypocrisy of the pro-statehood Republican administration […]

With a generational shift against the status quo, a growing reluctance among Puerto Ricans to see their islands become part of an increasingly authoritarian nation, and now a battle between its two leading figures —Gov. Pedro Pierluisi and Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González-Colón, a Trump supporter— the ruling pro-statehood New Progressive Party’s days seem numbered.

The tour through the mountains offers Puerto Rico’s most emblematic natural views, while reflecting government abandonment, the slow pace of post-Hurricane María reconstruction, and the urgency of funds for a new management plan.

On Tuesday, the Citizens’ Victory Movement and the Puerto Rican Independence Party announced a formal collaboration to address grievances against the 2020 electoral law and its proposed amendments, which were passed by the Puerto Rico House of Representatives later that day.

Agro Power, a farm equipment company owned by Puerto Rico’s Agriculture Secretary Ramón González Beiró, has earned over $100,000 in sales of equipment purchased by farmers through the federal Re-Grow PR Urban-Rural Agriculture Program.

From its board of 15 to its chairman’s advisory council of 20 and its staff of five and over 100 partners, there is no broad representation of Afro/Black Latino, Latina, and Latinx people. We are not represented in any significant way.

The meetings of the committee appointed to evaluate the operations of the campus were paid for with the Office of Institutional Transformation budget, whose operation from 2019 to date has cost $2,126,284.

History has a way of repeating itself, and in many ways Batista’s Cuba is echoed in today’s Puerto Rico.

Don Quixote’s elusive quest is a fitting metaphor for Puerto Rico’s statehood movement.

“Credit rating agencies try to have a qualitative and scientific vision for rating sovereign debt,” Giovanni Rodríguez of Colombia’s National University told Latino Rebels. “They have very practical methodologies which are easy to follow. But in the end. these agencies, far from making objective ratings, use ratings that are based in political and subjective logic.”

“I did not request for the cancellation of the event,” Luis Fortuño said.