For Immediate Release Friday, November 16, 2018 Organization Profile: Jubilee USA Network Contact: 202.783.3566 ex. 106 WASHINGTON – Puerto Rico’s Catholic Archbishop and an Evangelical leader who heads the island’s bible society criticized a debt agreement […]
NOVANEWS It has been a year since the impact of Maria. Here in Puerto Rico, there are still families living in the dark, homes without a roof, people who haven’t been able to find a […]
NOVANEWS By Bill Van Auken World Socialist Web Site Note to readers: please click the share buttons above The government of Puerto Rico Tuesday raised its estimate of the number of Puerto Ricans who lost […]
NOVANEWS New ruling overturns finding by lower court that charters and vouchers—part of the island’s education overhaul post-hurricane—were unconstitutional. by: Andrea Germanos Education historian Diane Ravtich called the new ruling from Puerto Rico’s high court a […]
A CORPORATE-GOVERNMENT PROGRAM TO UNDERMINE CIVIL SOCIETY A video version of Naomi Klein’s new book “The Battle for Paradise.” The situation in a nutshell: Grassroots efforts are thriving in the face of extraordinary challenges. Official […]
NOVANEWS By Graciela Pichardo Translation of the sign: The lack of a prompt response by the government caused the death of thousands, while thousand remain without lights. Photo: Lela Santiago-twitter.com Hundreds of Puerto Ricans placed the […]
NOVANEWS By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! A stunning new study by researchers at Harvard has revealed the death toll in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria may be 70 times higher than the official count of 64. The […]
NOVANEWS By Monica Cruz Photo credit: Joe Plette On Jan. 30, the US Federal Emergency Management Agency announced that it would end food and water aid to Puerto Rico. Over four months after Hurricane Maria […]
NOVANEWS By Reed Richardson FAIR Nearly five months after Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico, more than a hundred thousand US citizens there still lack clean drinking water, and almost one-third of the island has no reliable electric […]
NOVANEWS By Juan Carlos Dávila Residents form a human chain to load supplies to a truck at the Rio Abajo community in Utuado on October 17, 2017. (Photo: Ricardo Arduengo / AFP / Getty Images) After […]