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Con pesar comunicamos el fallecimiento de doña Marisa Rosado. Patriota y biógrafa de don Pedro Albizu Campos. Gestora cultural por excelencia dedicó su vida a Casa Aboy. Colaboró, siempe entusiasta y motivadora, con la Fundación Casa Albizu. Extrañaremos su amistad, compromiso y fervor patrio. En esa otra dimensión, recibida y abrazada por su amado esposo Efraín, Albizu, Corretjer, Matos Paoli, Lolita, Carmín Pérez, Isabelita Rosado, Blanca Canales, Figueroa Cordero, Irving Flores, Filiberto, Clemente Soto Vélez, Moncho Aboy y junto todos y todas las Patriotas que la antecedieron en coro dirán; ¡Viva Puerto Rico Libre! Edwin F. Rosario Fundación Casa Albizu

By José E. Velázquez Luyanda Part 1: “Checkmate: Days that Changed the History of Puerto Rico,” provided a survey for the reader of the Summer of 2019 in Puerto Rico, especially for those unfamiliar with the details of the historical moment. I chronicled events leading to the forced resignation of Governor Ricardo Rosello on August 2, 2019 and the complex internal feud within the ruling party, the New Progressive Party ( Partido Nuevo Progresista ).  These internal divisions played out like a complex game of chess as the Puerto Rican people watched, having just participated in a movement of civil disobedience that shook the ruling class in its bootstraps.  The main chess master was Senate President, Thomas Rivera Schatz, who engineered the removal of Rosello’s hand picked successor, Pedro Pierluisi, when the Puerto Rico Supreme Court unanimously ruled on August 7th that his selection as governor was unconstitutional.    The Senate, who had refused to ratify hi...

July 30, 1945–June 14, 2019 By  Victor Quintana quintana.victor@gmail.com September 14, 2019 Federico Lora Lopez. ( Family Photo.) Federico Lora López was a revolutionary who fought most of his adult life for social justice and for Puerto Rico’s independence.   Federico was not born in Puerto Rico nor was he the son of Puerto Rican parents in the United States.   Rather, he was born in the Dominican Republic on July 30, 1945.   His parents immigrated to New York City when he was a child and established the Upper West Side of Manhattan as their home.   Federico’s new neighborhood in New York City was the home to many Puerto Rican families.   His closest friends growing up were Puerto Rican, and he was accepted as one of them.   He, in turn, became very familiar with Puerto Rican culture—its values, norms, and practices. Federico was a product of the cultural, social, and political zeitgeist of the United States in the 1950s and 1960s...

From San Juan, Puerto Rico José E. Velázquez Luyanda Co-Editor of The Puerto Rican Movement: Voices From the Diaspora Day of Rosello Resignation. Courtesy of Noticentro PR I landed at Luis Muñoz Marin Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico on July 30th, a few days before the announced August 2nd resignation of Puerto Rico’s Governor Pedro Rosello. By chance I met the Univision (NY) journalist who had been sent to report on these historical events directly from Puerto Rico. While we waited for our suitcases, social media speculated about growing opposition to Pedro Pierluissi who was to be nominated as Secretary of State, therefore becoming the next Governor. Some speculated that Rosello would withdraw his resignation and remain in his post, unlikely due to the massive opposition of the entire people of Puerto Rico and the ruling party itself, the New Progressive Party (PNP) who sought to survive this political debacle. The many political maneuvers being executed would be similar to ...