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The Diaspora Pa’lante Collective is an organization of Boricuas and allies from across the US and Puerto Rico committed to fighting for the complete liberation of Borikén by any means necessary.
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On Christmas Eve, 2025, the Office of Permits Management published the Environmental Compliance Determination for the proposed Esencia megaproject, giving the green light to corporations and state investors to seize and destroy more than 2,000 acres of land, disregarding the will of the people. The approval had been on hold as a result of various reports compiled by residents of Cabo Rojo and other municipalities across Puerto Rico revealing the severe and lasting impact this project would have on land, water, and life. Residents like Pedro Cardona Roig, better known as El Urbanista, stated that the findings do not adequately […]
By Isabel Guzzardo If the legacy of slavery shapes every facet of contemporary Caribbean society, tourism is one aspect where it is especially stark; tourism forms part of a racialized capitalist structure that maintains working-class Caribbean people serving foreigners, through the low-wage exploitation of their labor, both sexual and otherwise. In Puerto Rico, the violence of a visitor economy is being felt in new, devastating ways. In 2019, Laws 20 and 22 were consolidated as Act 60, called the Puerto Rico Incentive Codes. This policy lures foreigners to settle in Puerto Rico by offering 100% tax exemption on capital gains, […]