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Archives: Puerto Rico Subcommittee
  • U.S. Military Policy and Vieques: The Constitutionality and Consequences of Bombing a Nation

    Posted on February 17, 2010

    Puerto Rico has been a colony for half a millennium, first under control of Spain and then for the past 100 years as a territory of the United States after the Spanish-American War. However U.S. interests in the island nation began in 1823 with the infamous Monroe Doctrine. President Monroe’s distaste for European involvement and […]

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  • Puerto Rico Bar Association Under Attack for its Progressive and Independista politics

    Posted on April 17, 2009

    The Puerto Rico Bar Association, founded in 1840, is the oldest professional organization in Puerto Rico and the third oldest in the American hemisphere. It is a mandatory organization, similar to the majority of state bar associations in the U.S., such as California and Florida, where membership is required. In addition to providing services to […]

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  • Update on Puerto Rico: Task Force on the Americas to Reinitiate PR Work

    Posted on November 23, 2008

    At this year’s convention, the NLG International Committee Americas Task Force made the important decision to reinitiate its work around Puerto Rico in the future. The decision came after a presentation by Judith Berkan, longtime Guild member and resident of Puerto Rico, supported by Jan Susler, also a longtime Guild member who lived many years […]

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  • International Committee appears at UN Decolonization Hearings on Puerto Rico

    Posted on June 23, 2008

    Jan Susler After 400 years of Spanish colonial rule of Puerto Rico, in 1898 Spain ceded Puerto Rico to the United States, and the U.S. militarily invaded and established a military government. Over a century later, Puerto Rico continues to be a U.S. colony- one of the few juridical colonies in the world- in spite […]

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