Con la intervención directa del presidente Obama, del secretario del Tesoro Jack Lew y de los dos funcionarios electos de más alto rango en Puerto Rico, PROMESA se aprobó sin ninguna enmienda significativa antes del 1 de julio ante la expectativa de que, si ello no ocurría, el cielo se iba a caer. Sin embargo, …
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Declaraciones del exgobernador Acevedo Vilá y su esposa ante el fallecimiento de la madre del gobernador García Padilla
Mi esposa Piti y yo seamos expresar nuestra más profunda tristeza por el fallecimiento de María de los Ángeles Padilla Passalacqua, madre del gobernador Alejandro García Padilla. Confiamos y oramos a nuestro señor para que el gobernador, sus hijos, sus hermanos y el resto de su familia y amigos tengan la fortaleza para sobrellevar este …
A Sovereign Commonwealth (ELA Soberano) is possible
After the positions of the federal executive branch and of Congress reaffirming their plenary powers over Puerto Rico, the two decisions of the United States Supreme Court and the approval of PROMESA, for the vast majority of Puerto Ricans who want and believe in a dignifying and not colonial association with the United States, that …
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United States and its right to self-determination
Statehood for Puerto Rico constitutes an exercise in self-determination for the United States. This is not a case of adding one more state to the union or one more star to the flag, but a transformation from what the US has been throughout its history, a nation-state, into a multi-national state. World history has various …
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HABLEMOS SOBRE LA ESTADIDAD
Durante las últimas semanas, en parte como consecuencia de la aprobación de la ley federal PROMESA, las recientes decisiones del Tribunal Supremo de Estados Unidos y la cercanía de las elecciones, el tema del status de Puerto Rico ha vuelto a tomar prominencia en la discusión pública. Para los líderes del PNP la única solución …
The myth of the economic miracle of statehood
Listening to statehood supporters it seems they are selling a type of socialist statehood, that statehood for Puerto Rico means that we get a part of oil production from Texas, part of the proceeds from Hollywood, the economic bonanza from Wall Street and from Orlando’s tourism. That hollow rhetoric is repeated with even more insistence …
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THE HURRY IS OVER, THE CRISIS REMAINS
With the direct intervention of President Obama, the Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew and the two highest ranking elected officials in Puerto Rico, PROMESA was approved without any significant amendments before July 1st with the expectation, that if it did not happen, the sky would fall. However, several days have passed and the questions …
TESTIMONIO DEL EXGOBERNADOR DE PUERTO RICO ANÍBAL ACEVEDO VILÁ ANTE EL COMITÉ DE DESCOLONIZACIÓN DE LA ORGANIZACIÓN DE LAS NACIONES UNIDAS, 20 DE JUNIO 2016
Señor presidente, señores embajadores, representantes de las diferentes naciones del Mundo: Mi nombre es Aníbal Acevedo Vilá. Comparezco ante este comité por tercera ocasión. La primera vez fue en 1997 cuando vine en mi carácter de presidente del Partido Popular Democrático para denunciar el intento del Congreso de Estados Unidos de aprobar una medida legislativa, …
TESTIMONY OF THE FORMER GOVERNOR OF PUERTO RICO ANÍBAL ACEVEDO VILÁ BEFORE THE UNITED NATIONS SPECIAL COMMITTE ON DECOLONIZATION, JUNE 20, 2016
Mr. President, Ambassadors, representatives from the different nations of the world: My name is Aníbal Acevedo Vilá. I appear before this committee for the third time. The first time was in 1997 when I came in my capacity as president of the Popular Democratic Party to denounce an attempt by the United States Congress to …
Colonizers and colonized
Thursday June 9, 2016 will go down in history as the day the colonizers and the colonized won and celebrated, but Puerto Rico lost. The repercussions of the Supreme Court ruling in the case of Sánchez Valle and the approval of PROMESA in Congress with its colonial board, will mark us for many years like …