Puerto Ricans marched on San Juan’s Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport to protest plans to privatize the facility through a 40-year lease to an international consortium.
The government of Puerto Rico has responded to a scathing report from the US Justice Department by agreeing to reform the island’s police department.
Gov. Luis G. Fortuño conceded defeat in his bid for a second four-year term, but his allies claimed statehood supporters had won in a referendum held the same day.
Puerto Rican legal experts say that a revised Penal Code that Gov. Luis Fortuño that signed into law last month dramatically increases penalties for civil disobedience.
