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Gutierrez Reacts To Racist Twitter Attacks On President and Mrs. Obama by Sr Puerto Rico Official
August 2, 2012 | by HS News Staff | HS News Network
Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez (D-IL-4) wrote President and Mrs. Obama a letter on Wednesday expressing his outrage at a racist Tweet attributed to the top Advisor to the Speaker of the House in Puerto Rico. He also wrote the Speaker calling for the advisor's termination. In the letter to the Obamas, the Congressman, a Chicago-born Puerto Rican, said: continue reading »
ACLU Asks Justice Department To Intervene In Serious Human Rights Abuses In Puerto Rico
March 12, 2011 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Letter Cites Allegations Of Extreme Police Misconduct And Suppression Of Free Speech continue reading »
Exposing the Shadows of Civil Rights in Puerto Rico
March 8, 2011 | by HS News Staff | HS News Network
I find it peculiar how we Puerto Ricans continuously complain about our lack of voice and power in Congress, but when any Island issue is discussed on the floor someone always jumps at the opportunity to cry foul. continue reading »
Exposing the Shadows of Civil Rights in Puerto Rico
March 8, 2011 | by HS News Staff | HS News Network
I find it peculiar how we Puerto Ricans continuously complain about our lack of voice and power in Congress, but when any Island issue is discussed on the floor someone always jumps at the opportunity to cry foul. continue reading »
A Blow to the Diaspora- (it’s All in the DNA)
March 5, 2011 | by el nuevodia | Latino Daily News
Each time you read a headline that a Puerto Rican born in the United States makes his living in Puerto Rico, there are people who are offended when that person is considered a boricua. continue reading »
Gutierrez on Puerto Rican People: “You will not silence them, and you will not silence me” (VIDEO)
March 2, 2011 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
As we reported a week or so ago, a debate emerged in the US House of Representatives between Puerto Rico's Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi and Chicago Congressman Luis V. Gutierrez over the Congressman's right to address issues affecting Puerto Rico on the floor of Congress. continue reading »
Center for Puerto Rico Equality & Advancement (CPREA) Compares Gutierrez to Castro
February 26, 2011 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Here we go again, Congressman Luis Gutiérrez (D-Illinois) with his rants. It is incomprehensible that a United States Representative from the floor of the People’s House would declare his support for a group of students continue reading »
Puerto Rico Rep in Congress Calls out Gutierrez for Disrespecting People of PR (VIDEO)
February 21, 2011 | by Caribbean Business | Latino Daily News
An angry Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi lashed out Thursday at U.S. Rep. Luis Gutiérrez for "disrespecting the people of Puerto Rico" during the Illinois lawmaker's speech on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives a day earlier. continue reading »
Protests, Riots Over Tuition Increase at University of Puerto Rico Continue
February 18, 2011 | by New York Times | Latino Daily News
The bubbling pot that was the University of Puerto Rico for the last three days has once again boiled over as protests were started up again over an $800 fee caused the students’ tuition to jump more than 50 percent. continue reading »
Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez Denounces Civil Rights Violations in Puerto Rico (VIDEO)
February 17, 2011 | by Kimberly Kipp | Latino Daily News
Today, Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez (D-IL) delivered a speech on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to call national attention to the developing civil rights crisis in Puerto Rico. In recent months, continue reading »
