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- Germà Bel, “The First Privatisation Policy in Latin America: Selling State-Owned Enterprises in 1948-1950 Puerto Rico,” Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History (2011).
- Arlene Dávila, Sponsored Identities: Cultural Politics in Puerto Rico (Temple University Press, 1997).
- Alexa S. Dietrich, The Drug Company next Door: Pollution, Jobs, and Community Health in Puerto Rico (NYU Press, 2013).
- Eileen Findlay, We Are Left Without a Father Here: Masculinity, Domesticity, and Migration in Postwar Puerto Rico (Duke University Press, 2014).
- Alyosha Goldstein, “The Attributes of Sovereignty: The Cold War, Colonialism, and Community Education in Puerto Rico,” in Imagining Our Americas: Toward a Transnational Frame (Duke University Press, 2007).
- Alfred W. McCoy and Francisco A. Scarano, eds., The Colonial Crucible: Empire in the Making of the Modern American State (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009).
- Sidney Mintz, Worker in the Cane: A Puerto Rican Life History (WW Norton & Company, 1974).
- Ann Zulawski, “Urban Development, Public Health, and the Environment: A Historical Case Study in San Juan, Puerto Rico and the Possibilities for the Future,” Brown Journal of World Affairs (2016).
- “‘A Dark Day for the People of Puerto Rico’: U.S. Senate Moves to OK ‘Colonial Control Board,” Democracy Now, June 29, 2016.
- Greg Allen and Ray Suarez, “Mixed Reaction In Puerto Rico To New Financial Oversight Board,” NPR, July 2, 2016.
- Joel Cintrón Arbasetti, “The crisis in Puerto Rico fills politicians and lobbyists’ pockets in the United States,” Centro de Periodismo Investigativo, December 9, 2015.
- Michael Corkery and Mary Williams Walsh, “Puerto Rico’s Governor Says Island’s Debts Are ‘Not Payable,’” New York Times, June 28, 2015.
- Ricardo Cortés Chico, “La Austeridad Como Receta Ha Sido Desacreditada,” El Nuevo Día, April 23, 2017.
- José A. Delgado, “Obama convierte en ley el proyecto PROMESA,” El Nuevo Día, June 30, 2016.
- “Foro Digital: Reforma Laboral y Economía en Puerto Rico,” interview with Puerto Rican Economist Dr. José Caraballo Cueto (2017).
- Leani García “What Puerto Rico really needs” Americas Quarterly April 27, 2017
- Juan Gonzalez, “Obama will appoint members to board tasked with saving Puerto Rico from financial disaster,” New York Daily News, August 31, 2016.
- Ed Morales, “Puerto Rico’s Dance With Debt,” Jacobin, June 14, 2015.
- Ed Morales, “Puerto Rico in crisis: weighed down by $73bn debt as unemployment hits 14%,” The Guardian, June 28, 2015.
- Ed Morales, “Puerto Rico’s intensifying debt crisis has residents bracing for the worst,” The Guardian, July 1, 2015
- Ed Morales, “Is an Obama Donor Tying the President’s Hands on Puerto Rico’s Debt Crisis?” The Nation, August 19, 2015.
- Ed Morales, “Who is Responsible for Puerto Rico’s Debt?,” The Nation, June 7, 2016.
- Maritza Stanchich, “Puerto Rico’s Symbolic Power,” The Huffington Post, July 31, 2015.
- Sam Thielman, “Puerto Rico’s governor tells US Senate the island cannot repay debts,” The Guardian, December 1, 2015.
- Mary Williams Walsh and Michael Corkery, “Behind Puerto Rico’s Woes, a Broadly Powerful Development Bank,” New York Times, November 29, 2015.
- Ana M. López and Gabriela Reardon, “Puerto Rico at the United Nations,” NACLA Report on the Americas (2007).
- Jorge Manuel Díaz Rodríguez, “¿Soberanía? Solamente En El Deporte,” La Cordillera. Accessed April 27, 2017.
- Daniel Marans, “The Supreme Court Could Throw A Lifeline To Debt-Swamped Puerto Rico,” Huffington Post, March 22, 2016.
- Mario Ramos Méndez, “El Juego Del Olimpismo,” elVocero. July 22, 2016.
- Richard Wolf, “Puerto Rico Not Sovereign, Supreme Court Says,” USA TODAY. June 9, 2016.
- Alex Figueroa Cancel, “Governor Declares State of Emergency,” El Nuevo Día, September 22, 2016.
- Mary Williams Walsh “How Free Electricity Helped Dig a $9 billion hole in Puerto Rico,” New York Times, February 1, 2016.
- Simone Delerme, “The Latinization of Orlando: Language, Whiteness, and the Politics of Place,” Centro: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies (2013).
- Alan Yuhas, “Economic exodus means two-thirds of Puerto Ricans may soon live in states,” The Guardian, July 2, 2015.
- Cindy Y. Rodriguez, “Why more Puerto Ricans are living in mainland U.S. than in Puerto Rico,” CNN, March 24, 2014.
- EFE, “Éxodo boricua: Emigración reduce población de Puerto Rico,” El Diario, March 31, 2016.
- “La migración en Puerto Rico alcanza récord histórico,” Primera Hora, February 2, 2017.
- “89,000 boricuas emigraron de la Isla a Estados Unidos,” El Nuevo Día, February 5, 2017.
- EFE, “Puertorriqueños enfrentan gigante tasa de desempleo en Orlando” Primera Hora, July 23, 2016.
- “Central Florida Votes Puerto Rican: The Future of a Swing State and the Island in One Vote,” Feet in 2 Worlds, October 24, 2016.
- “Puerto Ricans mourning attack on Orlando club,” Fox News, June 18, 2016.
- Brian Latimer, Suzanne Gamboa, and Sandra Lilley, “Latino Community Hit Hard in Orlando Shootings, Most Victims Were Hispanic” NBC News, June 13, 2016.
- Patricia Silver, “‘Culture Is More Than Bingo and Salsa’: Making Puertorriqueñidad in Central Florida,” Centro: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies (2010).
- Victor Vázquez-Hernández, “The Boricua Triangle:Tampa, Miami and Orlando- A Historical Overview of the Development of a Transnational Puerto Rican Diaspora in Florida,” FCH Annals: Journal of the Florida Conference of Historians (2015).
- Patricia Silver, “Puerto Ricans in Florida,” In Puerto Ricans at the Dawn of the New Millennium (New York: CENTRO, 2014).
- Lauren Gensler “Treasure Island: Puerto Rico Bids To Become New Age Tax Haven” Forbes, February 11, 2015
- Patrick Gillespie “Why Puerto Rico attracts billionaires despite economic woes” CNN Money, August 5, 2015
- Janet Novack “Puerto Rico expands Tax Haven Deal for Americans to its own Emigrants,” Forbes January 27, 2015.
- Alan Yuhas “Puerto Rico debt crisis: austerity for residents, but tax breaks for hedge funds,” The Guardian July 25, 2015.
- “Amnesty International Demands Safety of Fiscal Board Protesters,” Caribbean Business, July 3, 2016.
- Fermín Arraiza, “La Junta, la huelga, las máscaras,” El Nuevo Día, April 18, 2017.
- Hermes Ayala, “No cesa la resistencia: ‘se acabaron las promesas,’” Diálogo, August 19, 2016.
- José S. Coss Charriez, “A desnudar a los culpables de la deuda,” El Nuevo Día, April 17, 2017.
- Alex Figueroa Cancel, “No se rinden opositores de la Ley PROMESA,” El Nuevo Dia, July 5, 2016.
- Alex Figueroa Cancel, “Sigue en pie campamento contra la junta de control fiscal,” El Nuevo Día, July 4, 2016.
- Jorge Figueroa Loza, “Popular monoestrellada del Viejo San Juan amanece de luto,” Primera Hora, July 5, 2016.
- Guillermo R. Gil, “The Way Students Strike in Puerto Rico,” CounterPunch, March 31, 2017.
- Maribel Hernández Pérez, “Intensa candela por la Promesa,” Primera Hora, September 1, 2016.
- “Jóvenes piden respaldo en marcha contra la Junta de Control Fiscal,” El Vocero, July 2, 2016.
- “Manifestantes paralizan acceso a foro sobre Promesa,” Univision, August 31, 2016.
- “Ongoing Puerto Rico Protest Camp Blasts ‘Colonial’ PROMESA Bill,” TeleSur, July 12, 2016.
- “Police Pepper Spray Debt Crisis Protesters in Puerto Rico as Bankruptcy Looms,” Yahoo! News, April 18, 2017.
- Julio Ricardo Varela, “Protesters Camped Outside Federal Courthouse in Puerto Rico Vow to Remain,” Latino USA, July 5, 2016.
- Catherine Morris, “Puerto Rico’s Financial Crisis Wallops University System,” Diverse Issues in Higher Education, May 10, 2017.
- Melisa Ortega Marrero, “Estudiantes de la UPR de Río Piedras deciden culminar la huelga,” El Nuevo Día, June 5, 2017.
- Karla Sanabria Véaz, “Una huelga de país,” Diálogo UPR, June 11, 2017.