Two weeks ahead of U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan’s March 31st deadline to craft a responsible solution for Puerto Rico’s fiscal and economic crisis, Gov. Alejandro García Padilla held daylong meetings Thursday on Capitol Hill with Congressional leaders to urge "swift action" in enacting the necessary legislation to address the island’s crisis.
Former Washington, D.C. Mayor Anthony A. Williams, who steered the nation’s capital from financial ruin to prosperity, told U.S. lawmakers Tuesday that solving the immediate fiscal crisis, while absolutely essential, will not alone be sufficient to bring Puerto Rico back to the position of economic self-sufficiency.
At precisely 10 this morning, the Cuban flag will flutter for the first time in more than half a century over its stately old mission on Sixteenth Street — marking the opening of Washington’s newest embassy in years.
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