Monthly Archive: December, 2010

102 Palabras: UPR Tuition Increase Hurts the Majority

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… Read More

Black Monday (Chaos in the Colony Pt. 4)

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.… Read More

Tea Party’s Rum Diaries

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… Read More

Páginas en Blanco

The Wikileaks phenomenon is remarkable because it seems to overtake whatever passes for “the discourse” (el discurso) and explodes from within any notion of a temporal news cycle, illuminating a hidden speech that… Read More

Chaos in the Colony Pt 3

The University of Puerto Rico central campus in Rio Piedras is currently under siege by operatives of a private security firm called Capitol Security, which has been contracted by the University for what… Read More

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.