Green Party leaders said that restoring Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricanes Irma and Maria requires cancellation of the island's massive and unpayable debt and austerity policies under PROMESA, enabling Puerto Ricans to declare independendence, and an end to Puerto Rico's ongoing status as a colony of the U.S. since 1898.

Presentation made on behalf of the Coordination Group Against the Junta of Fiscal Control (Concertación en Contra de la Junta de Control Fiscal) at Left Forum 2017, by Digna Sánchez, Coordinator, DiaspoRicans DiaspoRiqueños, member group of Concertación.

What has United States colonialism done to Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican people? Allow me to share with you some of the most deleterious problems caused by colonialism in Puerto Rico that I have observed since my arrival in my beloved homeland.

The ideological offensive launched by the government of Dr. Ricardo Rosselló and the New Progressive Party (NPP) to make Puerto Rico the 51^st state of the United States of America has not ceased or wavered since they took control of government last January 2017.