The National Hispanic Leadership Agenda, a coalition of 39 of the U.S. mainland’s largest Latino advocacy organizations, held a press conference Tuesday with Congressional, Puerto Rican, and labor leaders today calling on President Obama and Congress to take action "to save Puerto Rico from economic disaster."
Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi announced Tuesday that Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont, the Ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, will cosponsor S. 1774.
It's ironic that on the heels of the celebration of America's greatest achievement, the month when the land of the free and the home of the brave was forever liberated from the shackles of its colonial status, we now find one of its remaining illegitimate sons, Puerto Rico, on the cusp of a similar crossroads.
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