Current Affairs | April 4, 2024
By Alberto Medina, BUDPR President
The United States’ 125-year-old colony deserves independence, and Americans must dispense with the notion that it’s not their place to take a stand on Puerto Rico’s political status. Read More
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NACLA | December 19, 2023
By Jenaro Abraham, BUDPR Collaborator
The Puerto Rican Independence Party’s (PIP) latest assembly marks a turning point in electoral strategy and a challenge to the colonial paradigms that have long held the archipelago hostage. Read More
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The Hill | November 21, 2023
By Alberto Medina, BUDPR President
Billionaires are turning an already vulnerable nation into an exploited tax haven, adding insult to the ongoing colonial injury of Puerto Rico’s relationship with the United States. Read More
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Center for Cooperative Media | September 13, 2023
By Alberto Medina, BUDPR President
As long as it keeps Puerto Rico under political subordination, the United States is an empire. If that’s to change anytime soon, Americans will have to take up a political and moral responsibility they have neglected. Read More
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The New Republic | July 25, 2023
By Alberto Medina, BUDPR President
Why the independence movement, not statehood, is the future of the island’s liberation. Read More
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El Nuevo Día | 1 de abril de 2023
Por Luis Ponce Ruiz, Presidente de BUDPR
El potencial estratégico de la Diáspora está ahí para mover la balanza en el Congreso. El momento de activarnos, no importa dónde estemos, de reclamar por un nuevo Puerto Rico, libre, democrático y próspero es ahora. Lee Más
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Latino Rebels | March 1, 2023
By Alberto Medina, BUDPR Collaborator
The Puerto Rican nationalists who attacked Congress turned to violence because they foresaw the continued U.S. domination of Puerto Rico and the failure of peaceful, political means to achieve decolonization. The last 70 years have, unfortunately, proven them right. Read More
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The Seattle Times | September 23, 2022
By Jenaro Abraham, BUDPR Collaborator
The only option moving forward for Puerto Ricans must be a decolonization process with reparations, in service of a transition toward independence. Read More
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The New Republic | July 20, 2022
By Alberto Medina, BUDPR Collaborator
The Puerto Rico Status Act, well-intentioned as it may be, will not do the trick. Let’s instead start to imagine a process that takes into account the political reality, and that actually has a chance to redress this shameful, long-standing injustice. Read More
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Latino Rebels | March 4, 2022
By Javier Hernández & Alberto Medina, BUDPR Collaborators
Outside of the colonial model, the opportunities for real economic growth and development for Puerto Rico are there. It’s time to reframe the discussion about Puerto Rico’s status on both the island and the United States. Read More
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