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Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez Denounces Civil Rights Violations in Puerto Rico
6:52 pm By Maegan La Mala · Puerto Rico
16 Feb 2011Finally it seems that the situation in Puerto Rico is gaining a little more attention, with articles in mainstream media and earlier today Congressman Luis Gutierrez raised the issue before congress. Of course looking at the Congressional floor, we see the interest that the U.S. legislature, the only body who can “legally” change the status of Puerto Rico., has in what is happening to U.S. citizens there.
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13 Responses to Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez Denounces Civil Rights Violations in Puerto Rico
BellaVidaLetty
February 17th, 2011 at 9:24 am
Great speech.
Dave M
February 17th, 2011 at 1:12 pm
You need to do your research before going the House of Representative and denouncing Civil Rights Violations in Puerto Rico. Ther has been a major abuse on behalf of the students protesting and preventing the right to education to other students. You do not address the true problem. There was an increase in tuiton of $800 a year to toal of less than $2,000 a year. The students are being unreasonable.
Mr. Guitierrez find out the truth and address it. My daughter has been denied her right because of these students.
Maegan La Mala
February 17th, 2011 at 1:21 pm
But Dave, looking at the median income of people in Puerto Rico that is a large amount of money for a “public system”
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February 17th, 2011 at 5:07 pm
[...] In the United States, the media and the citizenry consuming media is focused on the protests in Wisconsin and the revolutions at work across the Middle East while continuing to turn a blind eye to what is happening in Puerto Rico. [...]
j mendez
February 19th, 2011 at 4:50 pm
Excellent!!!! Anything said by Gutierrez that is not true? All true. I live in Puerto Rico and keep saying this PNP government smells and looks like the government of Adolph Hitler.
ECLugo
February 19th, 2011 at 9:30 pm
Muy bien! What’s taking place in Puerto Rico would not be tolerated in the USA.
Maegan La Mala
February 20th, 2011 at 7:57 am
Hola ECLugo and indeed and that has kind of been my point in covering what has been happening in Puerto Rico, that Puerto Rico is part of the U.S. (however you see that relationship) and that what is happening there, were it repeated on a campus anywhere in the U.S. would receive a much different reaction.
ECLugo
February 20th, 2011 at 11:38 am
Saludos… Que ironia que el lider estadista se comporte en una manera anti-democratica. Que conste que no soy estadista, pero mi familia mayormente lo es… y hasta ellos estan callados, pues saben muy bien lo que esta ocurriendo en PR.
Maegan La Mala
February 20th, 2011 at 12:15 pm
Tienes la razon. Imaginate si un gobernador de un estado de los E.U. comentaria en favor de violencia en contra de estudiantes protestando. Seria un escandalo! Hemos tenido estadistas comentando aca que los estudiantes son terroristas y que estan impidiendo la educacion de los demas, pero nadie, absolutamente nadie he podido justificar las acciones de la policia.
ECLugo
February 20th, 2011 at 3:24 pm
Vamos a ver lo que pasa el martes.
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Crónico
March 2nd, 2011 at 12:38 pm
I’m really fed up with people commenting that the UPR protesters are preventing the students who oppose the strike from getting their education. During the last student assembly, only 2000 of the over 40000 students participated. The student body put in place a democratic process to decide what route the student would take, but the students who oppose the strike apparently chose not to show up. Whose fault is that? There is no negotiation, and definitely no compromise from the administration, and on top of that, there is no participation from the students who favor the administration’s approach. What kind of democracy is that?
Maegan La Mala
March 3rd, 2011 at 9:22 am
Gracias for commenting. Yeah, I was/am wondering about the people who complain about the protesters pero seem to be resistant to actually move to defend the actions of the administration. Apathy? Internalizing colonialism? Laziness? Que?