Many of Puerto Rico’s healthcare issues are a result of its status as an unincorporated territory.  Because the islands are a possession of the United States and not a permanent and full… Read more »

On December 1st, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on Puerto Rico’s financial troubles and how to solve them. The territory’s Resident Commissioner in the U.S. House of… Read more »

Colonel Valeria Gonzalez-Kerr has just been promoted to Brigadier General. She is the first Hispanic woman to gain this rank in Florida’s National Guard, and she is from Puerto Rico…. Read more »

Congress is allowed to treat Puerto Rico, and the other U.S. territories, differently from the States. The Supreme Court in the Insular Cases famously ruled that the U.S. Constitution did… Read more »

The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold another hearing on Puerto Rico’s financial situation on December 1st at 10:00 a.m. Eastern time. The Finance Committee and the Energy and Natural Resources… Read more »