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Researcher and academic based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. I teach at the University of 🇵🇷 and direct the infrastructure and Puerto Rico portfolios at PolicyLink.org. I study migration, development, disasters and housing. deepakln.com

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The scenes with Benicio and Leo merit the categorization.

11.01.2026 01:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The monopoly on violence is not a license to kill.

11.01.2026 01:03 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

#PuertoRico, unfortunately, stands in the crosshairs of the revived expansionist doctrine advanced by the US. A broad remilitarization project on our land is underway and supported by the current government. The risks of being a beachhead for invasions are monumental, and we should make this known.

05.01.2026 22:02 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Conservatism’s Baton Twirler | Osita Nwanevu No one will ever write a biography of consequence about Rich Lowry. While remembrances of William F. Buckley Jr., the founder of National Review, often

While catching up and getting through my reading pile, I found this wonderful critique and cutting profile.

William F. Buckley has been on my mind as I try to comprehend how a particular form of right leaning thought has captured the US. Osita Nwanevu’s piece fills some key gaps and illuminates.

31.12.2025 14:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ana amazing final show to close “La Residencia”. I am convinced that Benito and his team are showing us what boricua excellence looks and sounds like.

21.09.2025 16:01 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Went to see Benito last night. What an amazing concert!

02.08.2025 19:51 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Opinion | How Awful Is the Republican Megabill? Here Are Four of the Worst Parts.

Thanks for sharing, Yonah. This was a very revealing read. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/o...

29.06.2025 17:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Inequality and its highly pernicious impacts on display.

29.06.2025 13:45 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Las propuestas de desarrollo económico bajo el colonialismo estadounidense revelan un patrón demasiado común: los gobernantes boricuas, que carecen de destrezas e imaginación, bailan al son que le toquen en el norte. Y con los cambios de ritmo, andan aún más perdidos en la pista.

13.04.2025 22:07 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In MIT territory?

04.04.2025 01:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

We’re not evidencing a structural shift towards a “planned economy” but a drunk walk towards an capricious and incoherent industrial policy.

04.04.2025 01:52 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

No doubt.

26.03.2025 22:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Pero, ¿quién me va a backear en mis garatas? 🤣

21.03.2025 19:56 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The Cryptocurrency Scam That Turned a Small Town Against Itself How did a successful, financially sophisticated banker gamble his community’s money away?

Can’t help but think that this story is currently repeating itself and taking down a small financial institution in Puerto Rico, where crypto creeps unfortunately abound.

23.02.2025 18:14 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
BAD BUNNY - TURiSTA (Video Oficial) | DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS
YouTube video by Bad Bunny BAD BUNNY - TURiSTA (Video Oficial) | DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS

Watching Bad Bunny’s latest video, Turista, I cannot help but feel how those of us living in—and not giving up on—Puerto Rico are cleaning up after those who take advantage of the extractive tourist economy.

16.02.2025 18:04 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

According to data from the island’s Planning Board, Puerto Rico imported $1,218M and $647M from Mexico and Canada respectively, in 2023. The list of goods includes everything from pharmaceutical products to cars and food. Major impacts are coming thanks to the new tariffs.

03.02.2025 03:07 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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“Se están llevando personas que tienen documentos”: agentes de ICE realizan operativo en el área de Barrio Obrero en Santurce Al menos, tres personas fueron detenidas en la primera intervención de este tipo luego que el presidente Trump revirtiera protecciones a inmigrantes en Estados Unidos

ICE raids in Puerto Rico are taking away innocent people who have all their migration documents in order. The most recent event took place in Barrio Obrero, Santurce. Story in Spanish: www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/seg...

26.01.2025 23:05 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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The Walmart Effect New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices.

Recuerdo cuando discutíamos el posible impacto de la llegada de Walmart a #PuertoRico. Según dos ensayos académicos recientes, “[…] Walmart makes the places it operates in poorer than they would be if it had never shown up at all.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

25.01.2025 23:55 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

¿Habrá que ir a ver a los Mets con los papeles encima?

25.01.2025 03:04 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

¿El aumento en el salario mínimo?

16.01.2025 04:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A Great victory, 2-✋🏽,
versus the “merengues” to win the Spanish Supercopa.
¡Visca el Barça sempre!
🔵🔴 🏆 🔵🔴

12.01.2025 21:24 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Las casetas de la La Parguera, en Puerto Rico, son un vivo ejemplo de un asentamiento informal. Pero, al ser habitados por la élite, no serán arrasados como aquellos habitados por gente pobre. Ya lo dijo Ananya Roy: el Estado crea la informalidad y usa estratégicamente el “estado de excepción”. 👇🏽

12.01.2025 17:03 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hurricane María was just a recent episode in a very long history of plunder and violent colonial domination—since 1898.

07.01.2025 11:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hay unas cuantas joyas en esa crónica.

05.01.2025 18:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
EZLN: un amanecer de treinta años | Gatopardo Tres décadas después del levantamiento del EZLN, Juan Villoro escribe una crónica de la reunión en Chiapas para renovar la lucha zapatista.

Aquí les dejo un gran texto de Juan Villoro sobre un encuentro con el EZLN.
www.gatopardo.com/articulos/ez...

05.01.2025 17:35 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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‘That is Maganomics’: where Trump is taking America on trade Maverick economist turned presidential adviser Peter Navarro has helped bring back a world in which power takes precedence over economic exchange. Will he prove his critics wrong?

An engaging and articulate essay by Jillian Tett, that summarizes numerous angles of a an evolving series of policy shifts.

‘That is Maganomics’: where Trump is taking America on trade on.ft.com/4h1VwnC

04.01.2025 14:21 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

El error de conteo en la papeleta del plebiscito revela una cadena de incompetencia que incluye a compañías privadas contratadas para asistir procesos democráticos y a agencias públicas que han sido capturadas por intereses inescrupulosos. Es un reflejo del deterioro institucional en Puerto Rico.

28.12.2024 09:31 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Surreal y peligroso pues deja que esta noticia llegue a los oídos del corazón del rollo de la derecha en los EEUU. Aquellos que aún validan la teoría de conspiración que llevó al asalto del Capitolio.

28.12.2024 09:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So many images of said character come to mind.

23.12.2024 15:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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When the Feds Are Still Watching Former Black Panthers fear the FBI is still keeping tabs on them decades after COINTELPRO. In at least one case, they were right.

For years, former Black Panthers have feared that the FBI is still keeping tabs on them decades after its notorious COINTELPRO program.

Malik Rahim had never been able to prove he was targeted. Now, government docs show he was correct.

20.12.2024 22:38 — 👍 9811    🔁 3513    💬 169    📌 160

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