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- Title
Repeating Islands of Debt: Historicizing the Transcolonial Relationality of Puerto Rico's Economic Crisis.
- Authors
Fusté, José I.
- Abstract
The article discusses the history of economic crisis in Puerto Rico. It discusses increased emigration of people from Puerto Rico in 2014 and tax erosion and rise in the government's cumulative bond debt. Topics include Puerto Rican debt crisis under U.S. colonialism, colonial formations, U.S. interest in its insular colonial subjects and U.S. Supreme Court's ruling for inhabitants of insular territories.
- Subjects
PUERTO Rican history; DEBT; INSULAR possessions of the United States; PUERTO Ricans; UNITED States. Supreme Court; HISTORY; ECONOMIC history; TWENTIETH century
- Publication
Radical History Review, 2017, Vol 2017, Issue 128, p91
- ISSN
0163-6545
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1215/01636545-3857830