The population of Puerto Rico is around 3.4 million-- just between Connecticut (3,576,452) and Iowa (3,134,693), so more than Utah, Mississippi, Arkansas, Nevada, Kansas and 1115 other states.
(ANTIMEDIA) Puerto Rico — For the first time in American history, a territory claimed by the United States is filing for what is essentially bankruptcy.
On Wednesday, the New York Times reported that Puerto Rico, which the U.S. appropriated following the Spanish-American War, has just claimed in a New York federal court filing that due to its massive debt, the island is “unable to provide its citizens effective services.”
Haiti’s incarceration rate of roughly 100 prisoners per 100,000 citizens in 2016 was the lowest in the Caribbean. Nevertheless, there is a systematic campaign underway for more prisons. Canada and Norway have each given one prison to Haiti. Thanks to prison aid from the United States, three additional prisons have been inaugurated since 2016, and another is under construction.
In the last full week of Barack Obama’s eight year tenure as President of the United States of America, dozens of political prisoners still sit in cages across the nation’s prisons, rotting away as Obama consciously chooses not to exercise the power to simply free them with the stroke of a pen. Many activists for Puerto Rican independence, Native American and African American rights, and other causes were targeted by the political police’s illegal COINTELPRO program and convicted in sham trials.
A “political nightmare for the GOP.”
“No ambition to oppress them”? By Leftist Critic | Dissident Voice | December 2, 2016 Recently, I’ve been reading Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq, a book by veteran New York Times correspondent Stephen Kinzer, which focuses on US-backed coups from 1893 (Hawaii) to Iraq (2003). In the book, Kinzer devotes […]
