You searched for "Puerto Rico" gentrification - Latino Rebels https://www.latinorebels.com/ Mon, 21 Aug 2023 21:26:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 https://i0.wp.com/www.latinorebels.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/cropped-lr-logo.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 You searched for "Puerto Rico" gentrification - Latino Rebels https://www.latinorebels.com/ 32 32 31216860 María and Maui (OPINION) https://www.latinorebels.com/2023/08/21/mariamauipuertoricohawaii/ https://www.latinorebels.com/2023/08/21/mariamauipuertoricohawaii/#comments Mon, 21 Aug 2023 21:26:41 +0000 https://www.latinorebels.com/?p=210762 "As I watched TV coverage of the wildfires incinerating Maui... a single thought raged in my head: Colonialism is a brutal, never-ending story... The footage triggered memories of Hurricane María, which devastated Puerto Rico in 2017 and transformed the archipelago into a rich man's paradise—and a no man's land for many Puerto Ricans."

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]]> https://www.latinorebels.com/2023/08/21/mariamauipuertoricohawaii/feed/ 2 210762 The Party’s Over in Puerto Rico (OPINION) https://www.latinorebels.com/2023/08/14/puertoricopierluisipnptrump/ https://www.latinorebels.com/2023/08/14/puertoricopierluisipnptrump/#comments Mon, 14 Aug 2023 20:22:09 +0000 https://www.latinorebels.com/?p=210556 With a generational shift against the status quo, a growing reluctance among Puerto Ricans to see their islands become part of an increasingly authoritarian nation, and now a battle between its two leading figures —Gov. Pedro Pierluisi and Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González-Colón, a Trump supporter— the ruling pro-statehood New Progressive Party's days seem numbered.

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]]> https://www.latinorebels.com/2023/08/14/puertoricopierluisipnptrump/feed/ 3 210556 Losing Puerto Rico, One Moonshot at a Time (OPINION) https://www.latinorebels.com/2023/05/23/losingpuertoricoonemoonshotatatime/ https://www.latinorebels.com/2023/05/23/losingpuertoricoonemoonshotatatime/#respond Tue, 23 May 2023 20:53:32 +0000 https://www.latinorebels.com/?p=208447 This is the story of two Puerto Ricos—a phantasmagorical island cooked up by Pierluisi and the one Boricuas endure daily.

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]]> https://www.latinorebels.com/2023/05/23/losingpuertoricoonemoonshotatatime/feed/ 0 208447 Puerto Rican Pastor Spews Hatred From the Pulpit (OPINION) https://www.latinorebels.com/2023/05/09/puertoricanpastoshatespeech/ https://www.latinorebels.com/2023/05/09/puertoricanpastoshatespeech/#comments Tue, 09 May 2023 19:04:26 +0000 https://www.latinorebels.com/?p=208132 During a recent "sermon," the head pastor of an evangelical church in Puerto Rico denounced people of color as racist, slammed the LGBT community, and complained that the Black actress starring in Disney's remake of 'The Little Mermaid' was ugly.

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]]> https://www.latinorebels.com/2023/05/09/puertoricanpastoshatespeech/feed/ 4 208132 ‘Losing Puerto Rico’ Campaign Launched to Abolish Act 22 (OPINION) https://www.latinorebels.com/2023/04/26/losingpuertorico/ https://www.latinorebels.com/2023/04/26/losingpuertorico/#comments Wed, 26 Apr 2023 19:24:53 +0000 https://www.latinorebels.com/?p=207846 The Losing Puerto Rico media project launched a multimedia campaign to focus attention on an obscure and one-of-a-kind tax loophole that allows rich Americans to move to Puerto Rico and avoid paying most of their taxes.

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]]> https://www.latinorebels.com/2023/04/26/losingpuertorico/feed/ 3 207846 Jenniffer González Is More of the Same — and Probably Worse (OPINION) https://www.latinorebels.com/2023/03/08/jenniffergonzalez/ https://www.latinorebels.com/2023/03/08/jenniffergonzalez/#comments Wed, 08 Mar 2023 21:08:16 +0000 https://www.latinorebels.com/?p=206781 González and Puerto Rico Gov. Pedro Pierluisi, both of the ruling PNP, seemed united at a recent rally in San Juan, even as she schemes to replace him in 2024. If González is willing to stab her party's president in the back to take his job, how far would she go to keep it?

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]]> https://www.latinorebels.com/2023/03/08/jenniffergonzalez/feed/ 3 206781 ‘Non-English’ Is the New Puerto Rican (OPINION) https://www.latinorebels.com/2023/02/07/badbunnynonenglishgrammys/ https://www.latinorebels.com/2023/02/07/badbunnynonenglishgrammys/#respond Tue, 07 Feb 2023 17:56:11 +0000 https://www.latinorebels.com/?p=205648 Bad Bunny is a Puerto Rican reggaetonero, the biggest music superstar on the planet, and the voice of a generation. But all of this is what is lost in translation, or not translated at all, when CBS captioned his performance and speech with "singing in non-English, speaking in non-English" during the Grammys on Sunday.

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]]> https://www.latinorebels.com/2023/02/07/badbunnynonenglishgrammys/feed/ 0 205648 Puerto Rico After ‘Roe’ https://www.latinorebels.com/2023/01/26/puertoricoabortionrights/ https://www.latinorebels.com/2023/01/26/puertoricoabortionrights/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2023 20:40:06 +0000 https://www.latinorebels.com/?p=205183 A look at the battle over abortion rights in Puerto Rico following the U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of 'Roe v. Wade' in 2022, which undid nearly 50 years of reproductive rights protections in the United States

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]]> https://www.latinorebels.com/2023/01/26/puertoricoabortionrights/feed/ 1 205183 La Brega: The Puerto Rican Experience in Eight Songs https://www.latinorebels.com/labrega2/ Thu, 26 Jan 2023 16:07:05 +0000 https://www.latinorebels.com/?page_id=205082 SUBSCRIBE HERE La Brega art by Fernando Norat WNYC Studios and Futuro Studios present a second season of the critically-acclaimed, pioneering dual-language podcast, La Brega: Stories of the Puerto Rican Experience. The eight-episode, dual-language podcast series is reported and recorded in English and Spanish. The second season of La Brega is made possible by the Mellon Foundation. […]

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]]> 205082 Brownlisted: New Year, Same Bull https://www.latinorebels.com/2023/01/06/brownlistednewyear2023/ https://www.latinorebels.com/2023/01/06/brownlistednewyear2023/#respond Fri, 06 Jan 2023 17:24:19 +0000 https://www.latinorebels.com/?p=204229 A rundown of the Latino-centric news from the first week of the new year.

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