Audiobook: Fantasy Island: Colonialism, Exploitation, and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico, by Ed Morales Published by Hachette Books
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this pit the wealthy metropolitan regions, I e. The United States, Europe and parts of Asia. Against what many have called the global South, Latin America, Africa and South Asia. Puerto Rico had generally lived a political economic reality that was an unfaithful simulacrum of a capitalist democracy. But the debates, centering on status change engaged Islanders in a zero sum quarrel over the possibilities of something that could only be granted by an indifferent Congress in Washington. Despite fairly clear divisions based on liberal and conservative politics, the question had devolved into a perfect arena for lobbyists intent on selling something that would never come to pass. At the beginning of the millennium, one constant remained in post modern life in Puerto Rico. Its economy was rapidly shrinking because of a steep decline in the manufacturing sector, attributable to both the end of section 9 36 and the general decline of manufacturing globally. Although the dynamics of this new narrative were somewhat hidden, it became clear to most Americans that they could no longer depend on long term job security and old school pension plans, which are still a feature of some federal, state and local government jobs. Yet as the years went on, regardless of what happened with the Puerto Rico economy, consolidating lands for agriculture, transforming industry coupled with forcing migration through Operation Bootstrap implementing and ultimately removing section 9 36 of the Internal Revenue Code, the last resort was always to find ways to avoid limits to selling bonds. Although history seems to prove that she did not bear the lion's share of responsibility and accumulating the debt and the corruption allegations didn't stick. In 2003 the former mayor of San Juan announced her intention not to run for a second term, choosing instead to marry one of her Cabinet members and ease into retirement many of the buzzwords of the Davos set for in the plan. He wanted to focus on knowledge economy areas like bio science, technology and computing, and he wanted to diversify the economy, buttress the growth of local enterprise and improve public education. This lament, although perhaps cliche aid in our era of unproductive government, did signal something important the slow emergence of ah hard right element in the NPP that would come into power in the years ahead, taking after the Republican renaissance in the United States and perhaps given a large boost by the Cheney Rumsfeld Rove wing of the George W. Bush administration. Yet few eyebrows were raised outside of Puerto Rico when, at the height of the U. S attorney scandal that saw former Alabama governor Don Siegelman imprisoned because he was a political threat. Rosa Emilia Rodriguez was nominated by Bush. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales says Puerto Rico U. S attorney in 2006. Alarmingly, he also singled out a group of Socialists, his generalized term to describe opposition group protesters who he accused of advertising that they wanted to take the capital Leo by force. Street demonstrations continued to plague the Fortuno administration, and as the violence continued to emanate from the Police Department, the Department of Justice appointed Tom Perez, the current head of the Democratic National Committee, DNC, to investigate the P R. P. D