Puerto Rico’s colonial status made its debt crisis inevitable. Review: Promise Land: The Inside Story of the Puerto Rico Debt Crisis, David Skeel, 2026, Paul Dry Books
Categories: Caribbean, Puerto Rico, United States
Forgotten island
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Category: Puerto Rico
Birth of the Latino
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Puerto Ricans offer lessons for Latin Americans in the UK seeking recognition. Review: White, Black, Brown: Becoming Puerto Rican in Chicago, Michael Staudenmaier, 2026, University of North Carolina Press
Categories: Caribbean, Puerto Rico, United States
Green is the colour of blood
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Latine rebellions and why they matter
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Llana Barber explores a history of uprisings in the US against a backdrop of systemic racism, reminding us as we observe Los Angeles that the weak never suffer in silence
Categories: Caribbean, Central America, Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, North America, Puerto Rico, South America, United States
Cry freedom
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Comment: Ireland knows a thing or two about anti-imperialism. Sinn Féin’s Chris Hazzard MP told the ¡Adelante! conference why its solidarity with Latin America is unshakeable
Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Caribbean, Central America, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Europe, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, International, Ireland, Mexico, Nicaragua, North America, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, South America, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela
Unseen genius
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US imperialism renders the art of Puerto Rico invisible. Nuyorican & Diasporican Visual Art: A Critical Anthology, edited by Arlene Dávila and Yasmin Ramirez, 2025, Duke University Press
Categories: Caribbean, North America, Puerto Rico, United States
Party poopers
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Puerto Rico is prey to its own political system. Puerto Rico: A National History, Jorell Meléndez-Badillo, 2024 Princeton University Press
Categories: Caribbean, North America, Puerto Rico, United States
The colour of law
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Racialised US laws can explain Puerto Rico’s oppressed status. Making Never-Never Land: Race and Law in the Creation of Puerto Rico, Mónica A Jiménez, 2024, University of North Carolina Press
Categories: Caribbean, North America, Puerto Rico, United States
The colour of deceit
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US motives for intervening in the Cuban war of independence were never based on the humanitarian goals of popular imagination. Review of Colonial Reckoning by Louis Pérez
Categories: Caribbean, Cuba, Europe, Haiti, International, North America, Puerto Rico, Spain, United States
Perpetual motion
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Latin American Literature in Transition, 1870–1930, edited by Fernando Degiovanni and Javier Uriarte, 2023, Cambridge University Press
Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Caribbean, Central America, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Europe, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, International, Mexico, Nicaragua, North America, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, South America, United States, Uruguay