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Unmasking PROMESA: The unelected board perpetuating colonialism in Puerto Rico | Solidarity Without Exception
Puerto Rico first became a US colony in 1898—and remains so well into the 21st century. Today, that colonial relationship is structured through PROMESA, an unelected board that controls the island’s budget and has unleashed a vicious cycle of debt and privatization that has mired Puerto Ricans in poverty, unemployment, and underdevelopment. Rafael Bernabe joins Solidarity Without Exception to discuss PROMESA’s role in perpetuating colonialism in Puerto Rico, and the longer history of the island’s oppression under US rule.
Rafael Bernabe is a Puerto Rican activist, sociologist and historian…
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