Joel Cintrón Arbasetti

Puerto Ricans are the largest Latino group in at least two districts that could change party hands in November’s midterm elections.

Puerto Ricans are the largest Latino group in 59 congressional districts across five states that could prove decisive in the Nov. 3 midterm elections.

The Puerto Rico government allocated $272,891 to participate in the Trump administration’s celebration of U.S. independence.

As the 10th anniversary of the tragedy approaches, survivors and families are demanding transparency over the funding for the memorial the city of Orlando is expected to build.

The Latino version of the Conservative Political Action Conference brought business leaders, religious figures, politicians and Puerto Rico government agency heads together Friday for an event promoting conservative ideology.

Even though the Puerto Rican population in New York City has declined, candidates for mayor are still vying for their votes. The upcoming November 4 election is shaping up to be historic: for the first time, a socialist candidate of Indian and Muslim descent, Zohran Mamdani, could be elected mayor.

The hearing in Washington on the Fiscal Oversight Board leaves everything unchanged. Members of Congress “evaluated” the Board’s performance with rhetorical questions, lacking specific benchmarks and offering no proposals for change.

The launch of space rockets from the grounds of the former Roosevelt Roads Naval Base in Ceiba could negatively impact ecologically valuable species.

President Donald Trump’s mass deportation policy affects not only immigrants but entire communities in the city of Philadelphia.

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Among Pennsylvania’s nearly half a million Puerto Ricans, a key voting bloc in the upcoming presidential election, some have switched parties, others remain undecided, and many remain disengaged from the political process.

At the party level, the Citizen Victory Movement procured the highest number of donations from donors in the United States between January 2021 and July 2024. However, among the gubernatorial candidates, Jenniffer González leads in fundraising.

After seven years in which it raised nearly $20 million on behalf of the victims of the Pulse gay nightclub massacre, the foundation folded without fulfilling the promise of a memorial.

The high cost of hiring a lawyer, the English language, and an insensible prison system complicate the situation for families in Puerto Rico with relatives imprisoned in the United States.

The question came to my mind five years ago: how many Puerto Ricans are incarcerated in the United States? At the time, in 2018, I was investigating the Government of Puerto Rico’s failed attempt to transfer incarcerated people from the custody of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to a private prison in Mississippi.

For Samuel Serrano, going to prison is like disappearing. And he knows from experience that many stay inside. He is Puerto Rican, owns an auto repair shop in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the state with the most people born in Puerto Rico serving sentences in state prisons.