Oscar López Rivera, the longest-held Puerto Rican political prisoner in the US, was among 209 federal inmates granted clemency by outgoing President Barack Obama. (Photo via PM Press)
With the release of Norberto González Claudio, Oscar López Rivera seems to be the last of the independentista prisoners still held in behind bars in the US.
After a decade, the US still hasn't finished fixing the damage its Navy did to a tiny Puerto Rican island it used as a practice target for 60 years.
Under pressure from US investors, the Puerto Rican government plans to crack down on its employees; the unions are threatening to respond with a general strike.
Activists across Latin America participated in international protests against Monsanto and Chevron—but some "pink tide" governments continue to cozy up to Chevron.
Puerto Rican officials followed Wall Street's instructions for austerity, and Wall Street rewarded them by reducing the island's bonds to junk status.
A successful two-day strike against "pension reform" by Puerto Rico's teachers has brought the government to the bargaining table.
Wall Street objects to teachers’ pensions in Puerto Rico—just as it does in the US itself.
Residents of Vieques, an island off Puerto Rico long used as a US Navy exercise range, brought a complaint before the Inter-American Human Rights Commission.
The US has been spying on telecommunications in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and 11 other Latin American countries—with a focus on oil and other economic issues.
Biotech giant Monsanto does much of its research and development in Puerto Rico, but it holds in effect that it isn’t subject to Puerto Rican law.
In Argentina residents protest Monsanto's plan for a giant facility in their town; Mexican campesinos worry about contaminated corn; Puerto Ricans want labels on GM food.
