BOARD TO GOV: PR IS NEARLY BROKE
From The Washington Post:
"A federal control board warned on Wednesday that Puerto Rico’s govern-
ment needs to take “major emergency actions” to avoid shutting down be-
cause its cash flow is critically low. The comments published in a letter to
Gov. Ricardo Rossello are the sharpest yet made by a board that recently
began overseeing the U.S. territory’s finances..."
WOMEN'S DAY PROTESTERS BLOCK ROAD
From Caribbean Business:
"More than 100 women clad in purple T-shirts blocked [Las Américas Ex-
pressway] yesterday as they linked arms and marched through the capital
of San Juan at dawn. The group clutched large purple flags emblazoned
with the female symbol and used bull horns to decry chauvinism and de-
mand more reproductive rights...”
ACLU SLAMS FASTING & PRAYER DECREE
From The San Juan Daily Star:
"The American Civil Liberties Union is challenging a decree passed by Pu-
erto Rico legislators that calls for 40 days of fasting and prayer. The organi-
zation said in a statement Tuesday that the decree violates the concept of se-
paration of church and state. The decree was approved in February after Pu-
erto Rico’s House of Representatives President Carlos “Johnny” Méndez
said the island needed divine intervention as it struggles through an econo-
mic recession..."
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