Abstract, Social Movements, Crises, and Mobilizations: A Look at Summer 2019

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Social Movements, Crises, and Mobilizations: A Look at Summer 2019 

by Liliana Cotto Morales 

Beginning in the 1990s and in the first five years of the twenty-first century, we saw a strengthening of social movements that had achieved political space for combating U.S. neoliberal strategies and halting the dangerous influence of big business and capitalist governments. These movements became the protagonists influencing state policies in several Latin American countries and other regions. A systematic study of the knowledge produced by this resistance and insurgency may suggest alternatives that could be transformed into solutions.

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Abstract, The Boricua Summer: Keys from a Human Rights Perspective

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The Boricua Summer: Keys from a Human Rights Perspective 

by José Javier Colón Morera
The Boricua summer1 of 2019 (as the series of popular demonstrations against the administration of the then-governor of Puerto Rico, Ricardo Rosselló Nevares, has been termed) was a complex social event with significant potential. Some of its features are specific to the social context of one of the world’s last colonies, a body politic that is still fighting for full decolonization and the expansion of its democracy in the face of an austerity agenda that has intensely affected the vulnerable sectors of the population (Colón Morera, 2016; Negrón-Muntaner, 2019; Rivera Ramos, 2019). In another sense, however, reflect a new anti-neoliberal activism that is common to very diverse contexts and significantly transnational (Bandy and Smith, 2004; Cotto Morales, in this issue; Díaz Lotero, 2019). The Boricua summer became part of an extensive process of citizen empowerment linked to the country’s struggle to escape the colonial entrapment of its current territorial Commonwealth’ arrangement (Colón Ríos, 2016; Fonseca, 2019; Negrón-Muntaner, 2019).2 For this reason, it demands further analysis and presents the enormous challenges of capturing a process in full motion.3

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Abstract, Puerto Rico’s Summer 2019 Uprising and the Crisis of Colonialism

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Puerto Rico’s Summer 2019 Uprising and the Crisis of Colonialism

by Pedro Cabán

July 22, 2019, was a watershed moment in Puerto Rico’s history. On that day Puerto Ricans by the hundreds of thousands marched and demanded the resignation of Ricardo Rosselló Nevares, the colony’s inept and ethically bankrupt governor. On August 2 the pro-statehood governor became the first elected governor of Puerto Rico to resign his office.

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Photo Essay: The Power of Popular Protest: El Verano Boricua

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Photo Essay: The Power of Popular Protest: El Verano Boricua

Federico Cintrón-Moscoso and Vanessa Díaz
Text by Jean Hostetler-Díaz

In July and August 2019, hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans participated in a series of mass mobilizations in San Juan and municipalities across the island, demanding that officials be held accountable for their betrayal of the public trust and calling for the immediate resignation of Governor Ricardo “Ricky” Rosselló. These protests were triggered by the revelation of digital chats between the governor and his closest collaborators that included mocking those who died in Hurricane Maria, misogynistic comments, homophobic slurs, and remarks reflecting class bias.

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