The proposed new agreement struck recently by the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico with bondholder groups implies higher annual fixed payments and cash disbursements and for a longer period of time than in the October 2020 proposal, according to Espacios Abiertos Senior Public Policy Analyst Daniel Santamaría-Ots. “What remains constant with this […]
Aware of the difficulties that people face in inserting themselves into government debates and decisions on fiscal and budget issues, nonprofit Espacios Abiertos analyzed thousands of documents from the past 16 years to develop the new Observatoriofiscalpr.com platform, which seeks to provide greater accessibility and narrow information gaps. Daniel Santamaría-Ots, senior analyst of public policy […]
As part of its mission to develop civic capacities, Puerto Rico-based nonprofit Espacios Abiertos created the Community Laboratory, an empowerment and leadership project aimed at helping communities strengthen their recovery and sustainability skills, through a virtual platform. Project Coordinator, Carla J. Alonso, said the online site gathers tools to support the communities developed since the […]