Unmasking PROMESA: The unelected board perpetuating colonialism in Puerto Rico

Unmasking PROMESA: The unelected board perpetuating colonialism in Puerto Rico

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…

By Movimiento Ñin Negrón/Resumen Latinoamericano, March 28, 2025. People are tired of corruption and mismanagement. Where they want to listen to the discomfort with the administration for their waste and corruption. Even in the last elections there was a movement that aimed to end bipartisanism and corruption. And [...] Puerto Rico entry. In the colony corruption is legal was first published in Summary Latinoamericano.