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The situation at the main campus of the University of Puerto Rico in Rio Piedras continues to deteriorate. Today, during a “pintata,” or spontaneous demonstration by the students in which they painted slogans outside one of the libraries, the riot police force, which has been occupying the campus since December, began videotaping students involved in […]

While the U.S. media is currently slathered with tributes to Ronald Reagan, the father of worldwide economic ruin, modern right-wing conservatism, and the anti-intellectual fear-mongering demagogue, there is no mention of a far more heroic 20th century figure whose birthday is also today, February 6th. How many times, from the dawn of the Reagan era, […]

The New York Times’s willful sublimation of truth to its self-defining real estate interests is nothing new, but I guess as the “times” themselves become more transparently oppressive, the Times’s oblivious “objectivity” becomes more galling. Just published yesterday and accessible through a moderately visible link on the “New York-Region” page, the graphic above is headlined […]

When I landed at Luis Muñoz Marín Airport at around 9 PM on noche buena I got an email from a friend in New York that read: “The earth shook from Rincón to Fajardo on Christmas Eve in Puerto Rico. No casualties reported thus far. Happy Holiday.” It seemed like no one waiting at the […]

In this time when billionaire-philanthropists call for “radical transparency,” I think I sense an increasing need for anonymity as an antidote. At least that’s what I get from the above, one of hundreds, if not thousands of brilliant and funny art strategies created by Adál Maldonado. Perhaps most famous for having nurtured the idea of […]

Although it’s not known for sure what motivated the Arizona shooter today, the morbid syncretism between Colombine-style mass murder and fringe violence directed at politics and government is maturing in frightening fashion. Although Gabrielle Giffords was a foe of Arizona’s anti-immigrant legislation, she was a target of death threats last March because of her position […]

The naming of Mark Zuckerberg as Time magazine’s Person of the Year over Julian Assange is emblematic of the utter corruption of our economic and political system. Zuckerberg represents the ultimate capitalization of life, language, and the pursuit of loneliness, where individuals are used as bases for advertising campaigns in a way that may eventually […]

Just a note here to let you know about a special blog put together by students at the University of Puerto Rico chronicling the quotidian reasons why many will have great difficulty affording the $800 per semester increase imposed by the administration and its partner, the PNP government of Puerto Rico. These stories help demystify […]

There was a police riot late this afternoon at the UPR Rio Piedras campus. After peacefully demonstrating in the Natural Sciences building, the police began to isolate certain students and arrest them violently. Preliminary estimates are that 17 were arrested, some injuries, one known in Auxilio Mutuo Hospital. Radio Huelga reports a text from a […]

This freshly posted video shows Puerto Rico governor Luis Fortuño addressing a group of conservatives who had come to the Governor’s Mansion in San Juan just last week on a Caribbean cruise sponsored by the infamous CPAC, or Conservative Political Action Group. If you dare click on that link, you’ll see that CPAC’s website is […]