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Category Archives: Puerto Rico

What happened to #PuertoRico? Commonwealth happened.

The commonwealth party and a defunct political status have led the island’s 3.6 million people to the disaster they live every day. Continue reading 
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The Popular Democratic Party’s secret plan for PR

What is the true goal of the PDP? What is their ‘ultimate truth?’ Continue reading 
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#PuertoRico: this is what #collapse looks like

The incompetence of the Puerto Rico government borders on sociopathic bipolarism.Continue reading 
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Puerto Rico does NOT have a revenue problem

How long will it take for the politicians of Puerto Rico to learn how to do math? How long before they learn to understand the reality of cause and effect? Continue reading 
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US financial crisis more important that Ebola

While the news is blasting with reports of the first Ebola case in the United States; a much more important story got kicked to the side.  Don’t get me wrong, Ebola is a dangerous disease and if it gets out … Continue reading 
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Puerto Rico independence is two years away

This week on my regular blog at the Pan Am Post I released a ‘Petition and Declaration of Independence for Puerto Rico.’  The petition which can be signed here in Spanish and here in English; seeks the signatures of two … Continue reading 
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Special announcement set for ‘Grito de Lares’ anniversary

This coming Tuesday, September 23rd is the anniversary of the ‘Grito de Lares’ uprising against the Spanish government in 1868.  This is considered the birth date of the Puerto Rico independence movement. I will be making a special announcement on … Continue reading 
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More false jobless numbers

Only hard, fundamental change will turn the tide. Continue reading 
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Education Reform We Can Download

Sometimes we have to think out of the box of our own personal viewpoints and principles.Continue reading 
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URGENT: Obama pushing Hawaiian independence, could Puerto Rico be next?

Puerto Rico should keep a close eye on developments of this nature as it may hold serious implications for the commonwealth. Continue reading 
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Living in terror: Vieques and Puerto Rico

While some may argue that Puerto Rico’s crime rate is no different than the urban centers of Detroit, Chicago, New York or LA, I respectfully submit that people don’t spend their hard earned money to visit the ghetto. Continue reading 
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The morality of the death penalty (from Pan Am Post)

I cannot accept, … — in the face of more than 5,000 murders in the last six years in Puerto Rico — that somehow the government should be unable to put to death those who deserve to die. Continue reading 
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Service should be required to receive government money

There is no better way to improve the vision of your own life than to help someone whose life is worse than yours. Continue reading 
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Vieques Tourism: robbery of of tourists on camera

Picture shows tourists being robbed at gun point while having dinner on Vieques Continue reading 
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Is Vieques safe for tourists?

 Ever since the U.S. Navy left Vieques Island and Roosevelt Roads Naval Station on the main island of Puerto Rico, things have gone steadily downhill for that part of the U.S. commonwealth.  Things continue to deteriorate to the point where … Continue reading 
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Decay of Roosevelt Roads: gross incompentance of PR Government

A special thank you should go out to the protesters on Vieques who helped close the base and the more than a million Puerto Ricans who claimed to support the Navy but remained silent for most of the time the protests underway. Continue reading 
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When it comes to government, size does matter

It is very simple: the government is too big. In order to balance the budget and keep it balanced over the long term and continue paying the billions of dollars each year needed to service the debt and actually reduce it, you must reduce the size of government.Continue reading 
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Puerto Rico could lose 200 thousand more jobs

Half of Workforce Caught in Cross Hairs of Class-Warfare Folly Frank Worley-Lopez   Originally published August 2, 2014 at 1:01 pm in the Pan Am Post 0 Sidenotes An report in this summer’s edition of Regulation draws a horrific picture of Puerto … Continue reading 
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Journalism in Puerto Rico: propaganda and partisanship

It was election night 1996 and I was covering the news for San Juan radio station WOSO.  Fighting through the diminished crowd, through the door and up the stairs to the second floor where I could find some good interviews … Continue reading 
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Argentina, another country for PR NOT to emulate

In political debate, looking to what other countries do is often used as a way of promoting a new idea or another.  It is also used to explain why a certain policy or system should not be used.  Case in … Continue reading 
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National Parks to begin Global Warming Push

Real science doesn’t need a PR campaign… Continue reading 
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Crime and solutions for Puerto Rico

Let Us Not Remain Idle Amid an Epidemic Frank Worley-Lopez Originally published September 25, 2013 at 8:46 pm in the Pan Am Post 0 Sidenotes Puerto Rico has already seen 646 murders this year. The island, which is about 100 miles … Continue reading 
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Atlas to Shrug against Union Parasitism in Puerto Rico

From my friends at the Pan Am Post: Ayn Rand’s Themes Capture Standoff in US Commonwealth’s Economic Crisis Belén Marty July 22, 2014 at 9:44 am Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on google_plusone_share Share on email Share on …Continue reading 
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The time has come for Atlas to shrug

Why All Business Owners Should Strike on September 2 Frank Worley-Lopez Originally published July 17, 2014 at 11:52 am in the Pan Am Post 0 Sidenotes Español Puerto Rico labor unions have been out in the streets the last few weeks … Continue reading 
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Gender crime does not exist

Each week it seems we are bombarded with yet another news story about something called ‘gender violence.’  The story generally goes that a woman is murdered by a man.  Very rarely do we read of stories of a man being … Continue reading 
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How to Hurt the Poor: Raise the Minimum Wage

  Forget Higher Business and Consumer Costs; Consider the Fewer Jobs Frank Worley-Lopez November 11, 2013 at 7:46 am 0 Sidenotes EspañolPublished reports indicate the White House and the president are getting behind a proposal to raise the federal minimum wage … Continue reading 
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Shared Capitalism (Capitalismo Compartido)

I would like to propose a new theory of economics and new version of Capitalism.  One that could benefit Puerto Rico, as well as the United States of America as a whole. The idea is for government to invest in … Continue reading 
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