Today, puerto rico faces a crisis that threatens the wellbeing of our childrens generations. With those dire words, the governors of puerto rico and new york held a 2hour exchange of ideas designed to help the u. S. Commonwealth confront an enormous debt that grows worse by the day. I dont believe were going to be able to solve any big problems today, but i think we can listen, we can learn, and we can then come up with a strategy. That strategy is already underway. The action plan unveiled by the new york delegation of federal, state, and local leaders involves several costcutting and revenuegenerating measures. Among them, the state will kick off a 5 Million Tourism Campaign aimed at boosting travel between new york and puerto rico, fostering a partnership between private Higher Education and the private sector, reducing the cost of energy on the island, make it more costeffective. The presentation took place before a crowd of students at the university of puerto ricos medical scienc
The Center for Puerto Rican Studies (Hunter College) presents the authors of
The News Media in Puerto Rico: Journalism in Colonial Settings and in Times of Crises (Routledge, 2020),Federico Subervi-Vélez, Sandra Rodríguez-Cotto, and Jairo Lugo-Ocando. This event takes place via Zoom TODAY, May 12, 2021, at 6:00pm (EST). [See Zoom link below.]
There are many reasons why Puerto Rico, after more than 122 years, continues to be a colony of the United States. The island’s media system is one of the factors that most contributes to maintaining this relationship of dependence and subjugation. The book The News Media in Puerto Rico: Journalism in Colonial Settings and in Times of Crises, by Federico Subervi-Vélez, Sandra Rodríguez-Cotto and Jairo Lugo-Ocando documents this reality and exposes it with a variety of sources, including opinions offered by 60 prominent journalists from the Island regarding the challenges faced by the news media, their profession, and journalism educatio
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Yarimar Bonilla, Interim Director of El Centro (Hunter College/CUNY)
Dr. Yarimar Bonilla has been named interim director of CENTRO Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños [Center for Puerto Rican Studies] at Hunter College/CUNY. A search will be soon underway for permanent director. [For more information, see CENTRO.]
Hunter College President Jennifer J. Raab today announced the appointment of Professor Yarimar Bonilla as Interim Director of El Centro, The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter/CUNY (el Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños). Dr. Bonilla, Professor of Africana & Puerto Rican/Latino Studies in the Anthropology Department, will be the first woman to head Centro in its 48-year-history. She will assume the post following the retirement of longtime director Dr. Edwin Meléndez, which takes effect June 30. Hunter will conduct a national search with a diverse and inclusive search committee for a permanent director for El Centro.