Add to ORKGAs the United States ascended to hyper-power status during the late 1970s, it changed colonial policy in Puerto Rico. The change, which included the elimination of favorable tax legislation and demilitarization, devastated Puerto Rico’s economy. Puerto Rico borrowed heavily in a failed effort to offset the dramatic decline in capital inflows. The federal government enacted PROMESA after Puerto Rico announced it could not repay the debt. The law was designed to restore Puerto Rico to financial solvency by imposing oppressive austerity measures. PROMESA was a watershed event because it stripped Puerto Rico of the limited sovereignty the federal government had allowed. But, just as colonialism is the source of Puerto Rico’s economic and humani...
After the Spanish American War, the United States established full control over the Caribbean island...
Puerto Rico’s sovereignty status is an anomaly. Since the United States acquired the island in 1898,...
An article titled Puerto Rico’s long fall from ‘shining star’ to the ‘Greece’ of the Caribbean by ...
With this dramatic announcement, Governor Alejandro García Padilla transformed the island nation’s l...
In 2016, as a debt-ridden Puerto Rico tried and failed to protect its assets from rapacious creditor...
This article compares two conjunctures in Puerto Rico\u27s modern history: 1928 through 1940; and 20...
The devastation wrought by a historic storm posed the damage already inflicted by decades of economi...
Puerto Rico is in the midst of an economic calamity. The U.S. Territory faces a $73 billion debt, an...
Puerto Rico is in the midst of an economic calamity. The U.S. Territory faces a $73 billion debt, an...
This research will explore how the colonial administration built by the United States in Puerto Rico...
This article examines U.S. Puerto Rico relations during the American century through the prism of th...
PROMESA was signed with the purpose of helping the island’s economy recover from its crippling indeb...
PROMESA was signed with the purpose of helping the island’s economy recover from its crippling indeb...
After the Spanish American War, the United States established full control over the Caribbean island...
In 2016, as a debt-ridden Puerto Rico tried and failed to protect its assets from rapacious creditor...
After the Spanish American War, the United States established full control over the Caribbean island...
Puerto Rico’s sovereignty status is an anomaly. Since the United States acquired the island in 1898,...
An article titled Puerto Rico’s long fall from ‘shining star’ to the ‘Greece’ of the Caribbean by ...
With this dramatic announcement, Governor Alejandro García Padilla transformed the island nation’s l...
In 2016, as a debt-ridden Puerto Rico tried and failed to protect its assets from rapacious creditor...
This article compares two conjunctures in Puerto Rico\u27s modern history: 1928 through 1940; and 20...
The devastation wrought by a historic storm posed the damage already inflicted by decades of economi...
Puerto Rico is in the midst of an economic calamity. The U.S. Territory faces a $73 billion debt, an...
Puerto Rico is in the midst of an economic calamity. The U.S. Territory faces a $73 billion debt, an...
This research will explore how the colonial administration built by the United States in Puerto Rico...
This article examines U.S. Puerto Rico relations during the American century through the prism of th...
PROMESA was signed with the purpose of helping the island’s economy recover from its crippling indeb...
PROMESA was signed with the purpose of helping the island’s economy recover from its crippling indeb...
After the Spanish American War, the United States established full control over the Caribbean island...
In 2016, as a debt-ridden Puerto Rico tried and failed to protect its assets from rapacious creditor...
After the Spanish American War, the United States established full control over the Caribbean island...
Puerto Rico’s sovereignty status is an anomaly. Since the United States acquired the island in 1898,...
An article titled Puerto Rico’s long fall from ‘shining star’ to the ‘Greece’ of the Caribbean by ...