🇵🇷Puerto Rico: The Fiscal Experiment | Fault Lines
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- Dozens of university students are arrested for demonstrating against a tuition hike. But Puerto Rico Governor Luis Fortuno remains steadfast in charging students more to help close a $3.2 billion budget gap.
The students' fight is representative of a larger debate in Puerto Rico, and in the US, about how to solve a severe budget crisis - and at what cost.
Fortuno, a hawkish fiscal conservative, laid off 20,000 government workers in 2009, and suspended all labour negotiations, just like governors on the US mainland are doing today. But two years later Puerto Rico's labour unions are still scrambling to reorganise a largely unemployed population - nearly 17 per cent.
Puerto Rico is in its fifth year of recession, and expected to be the world's slowest growing economy if its situation does not improve. At question is the degree of economic and social responsibility the US has to its commonwealth state.
Fault Lines travels to Puerto Rico to investigate America's legacy as the island's ruler, and the harsh economic policies that are being imposed on the people who live there.
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This is the best and most accurate documentary of Puerto Rico that I've ever seen. Puerto Rico is not the paradise cruise ships and travel agencies make it look like. Just like every other country, there's more to Puerto Rico than meets the eye. Thank you for demonstrating our fight in the University (although we lost) and the truth in Vieques.
Aljazeera, THANK YOU VERY MUCH for doing this documentary, this country needs criticism and objectivity. You have done us a GREAT FAVOR by showing the world of our real situation, KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!!!
7 years later, they doubled (very literally) the cost of studying there. I know so many co-students that struggle to finish their degree. They were fighting to try to stop what happened, the university is at risk of losing accreditation.
Very good documentary, I am surprised every time I see people outside of PR understand much of our situation with all of its complexity, sometimes better than a lot of us. Would have been good to include a segment of fanatism in politics, since it is tied to what was said in the documentary and is one of our biggest problem in the island. I mean Fortuño almost won a second term! and a lot of people actually believe he helped the economy, and many people in the US actually think he was some sort of master economy strategist. All political parties here are corrupt but Fortuño served big money interests like no one before him ever had.
+Ferdinand Genaro Sometimes this types of foreign news agencies understand better our problems than most of news agencies inside Puerto Rico.
El mejor documental que he visto de la situacion en Puerto Rico. Gracias Aljazeera, esto es un regalo al pueblo de Puerto Rico. Hay que crear conciencia hermanos.
This is the best documentary I have ever seen on the current state of Puerto Rico. Thanks to Aljazeera, for a gift to the people of Puerto Rico. We must spread the word because we are all brother on this earth.
Wow 4 year later I come to see this documentary, Thanks to share so many true, some people not wanna see it others not wanna believe it and of course others won't care but the true always will come out. We the puertorrican most of the time think we are disconnect from the world and viceversa.
Thanks Aljazzera for making this report, we need report like this so other people in the world can know what is going on in Puerto Rico. We have press control in America and no other media will cover the story the way they suppose to cover it. I hope you go back, keep an eye on Puerto Rico.
Thank You AlJazeera for covering issues that local and USA newscasts will never do. I am now a fan.
I'm from PR and this is def not exaggerated! That was a hard moment for us, the students, lot of violence from the police. It's so sad that PR, being a beautiful island with awesome people have a lose
Mucha fuerza desde España compañeros. Indigados en todo el mundo. Un abrazo
Y lo que falta! Fuego Popular. May God help us all.
Thank you Aljazeera for exposing the truth about PR. No other international news agency seems to have the transparency or courage demonstrated by your people. It is a gift to all the puertorriqueños in the world.
I think Rafael Cancel Miranda said it best,"...I'm a puerto rican, not a gringo...I know who I am and I don't try to be what I am not, because when you do that. You become nothing".
Excelnte trabajo! De verdad que capturaron la lucha! Que vivan los estudiantes!
Soy bendecida de ser puertorriquena. Me apena grandemente que tantos puertorriquenos han tenido que buscar una mejor calidad de vida fuera de la Isla. Increible como en 6 meses hay mas de 500 asesinatos en un pais tan pequeno. Increible, pobre educacion, para los jovenes, el futuro de un pais, increible corrupcion, increible pobre servicios sociales, etc. etc. Rezo todos los dias para que el gobierno, iglesia, comunidad privada, y el pueblo se una por el bien de Puerto Rico y su gente.
A MI ME PARECE UN REPORTAJE MUY BUENO QUE SEA FUNDAMENTADO POR CREENCIA POLITICA ALGUNA O NO, DE TODAS MANERAS DICE LA VDD RESPECTO A NUESTRA REALIDAD SOCIAL Y ECONOMICA. APOYO LA PUBLICACION DE ESTE REPORTAJE
Whenever I hear or see Don Rafael Cancel Miranda my hope is restored. This is an alarming report. I hope more Puerto Ricans continue to wake up to what is happening to our country.
“I’m a Puerto Rican, I’m a Caribbean, I’m a Latin American none of my grey hair is a gringo hair, I’m not a victim because I believe I myself I’m I know who I’m am I know who I am and I not pretend to be what I am not, because when you pretend to be what you are not you become nothing”
Juan Cancel Alegría Bravo por un Boricua que se da a respetar, mis respetos siempre...
Regardless if we like it or not, Puerto Rico is part of the United States. Though have not assimilated to the Metropolis, we still are. Just like the ABC islands are to the Netherlands. Unfortunately, we have not accepted such. I have to, with respect, disagree with gaznu. We might be a nation, like many within the Mainland, Hawaii, and Alaska. The focus of this report seems very accurate to me and how poverty has been ravishing the archipelago with these disastrous Republican policies.
Great piece of journalism.
Excellent piece, Puerto Rico is a laboratory, 33% of women were sterilized, contraceptive pill was tested in PR, napalm tested in the rain forest, "maquiladora" system first tried in PR was called Operation Bootstrap OR assembly plants for export. They built large petrochemical plants, Another experiment that failed miserably and left the island polluted and with large heaps of metal where the refineries were contaminating the water. Now a natural gas pipeline crossing the island ...
Tremendo reportaje; en Grecia la gente se atribulo, y en PR se lo dejaron en las manos a unos estudiantes, que demostraron mas valor que el resto de la ciudadania.
Gracias! - Thanks!
Solidaridad con Puerto Rico!! Claro que SI podemos contra el gobierno! porque? porque es el gobierno quien debe temerle al pueblo, no el pueblo a ello.
If it weren't for fault lines I would've never heard about this story, for that I thank you fault lines
Excellent reporting. Congrats / Dr Serafin Roldan
@SKTERE muy de acuerdo contigo, por estar votando por colores y fanatismos es que hemos llegado a este nivel.
Thank you for doing this.
"When you pretend to be what you are not, you become nothing."
Raphael at 16:08 understands the problem very well. Puerto Rico would be better off declaring independence from the USA and making it's own money. Viva un Libre Puerto Rico
woow!! gracias rene de calle 13 x compartir esto.. and i quote..."""when you pretend to be what you are not.. you are nothing""""' mis respetos a ese senior.. bien dicho.. :d
A Fortuño lo deberían juzgar por violación a los derechos civiles.
The Law 7 has destoyed families. Kenneth Mcclintock was the Senate President that did nothing during his 4 yrs (2004-2008) to help the previous governor of PR Acevedo Vila as those that are in the senate and the house today. When Fortuño entered in 2009 they inmediatly approved a budget larger than that requested x prev governor and started to inforce the 7 law. This party wants statehood but they need to respect the 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights of the PR citizens first.
We should ALL seek independence from US. I live in America & I really wanna move but what I have been taught is to never leave a problem and the least you could do is to help however you can. I'm going to be a politician someday and I'll do my best to make things right. Anything is possible.
Excellent!!!!!
We need more than status. We have to learn to administrate this small island resources, we need to make it better, organized and competitive. Only when we are up, we should decide if its the best to be free or to belong to another.
"We have not cut down social services [...] we are cutting down the structures that provide those services."- 11:18 Kenneth McClintock summarizes the lack of vision and compassion. They just don't care as long as their friends get rich.
wow....this is NOTHING BUT THE PURE TRUTH.....
Excelente documental, Aljazeera haciendo el trabajo que los medios locales deberían estar haciendo, Por eso es que creo en los medios públicos o casi públicos
That is a well done news story. Short and missing other important points, but time was limited. Economy is based on a lot of factors barely touched by this, still, no puertorrican can deny that we are facing an economic crisis. The ones who say Plaza is packed on weekends should observe more closely how many stores are closing. Not to mention that people go there to hang out but few actually are buying, just check how many carry bags when leaving. That tiny point put aside, I agree that people
@Naturalyards Actually, we are born as Puerto Ricans. The American citizenship is like a spontaneous middle name. So, although we are "part" of the USA, as said at the end of the video: "I'm a Caribbean and a Latin American. I don't pretend to be what I am not" (it's an identity crisis thing).
Excellent piece, Puerto Rico is a lab, 33% of women were sterilized, contraceptive pill was tested in PR, napalm tested in the rain forest, "maquiladora" system first tried in PR was called Operation Bootstrap OR assembly plants for export. They built large petrochemical plants, Another experiment that failed miserably and left the island polluted and with large heaps of metal where the refineries were contaminating the water. Now a natural gas pipeline crossing the island ...
Soy puertorriqueño, caribeño y latinoamericano, ninguna de mis canas es gringa. No soy una víctima porque creo en mí mismo y sé quién soy. Y no pretendo ser quien no soy, porque cuando pretendes ser alguien quien no eres, no eres NADA.
Puerto Rico! Puerto RIcan Independence!
Al Jazeera haciendo el trabajo que se supone que haga el nuevo dia, primera hora etc...muchas gracias por este video
waooo , que nos pasa puerto rico , que Dios nos ayude
Deberíamos incentivar a librerías locales como Castle Books, donde asistí el mes pasado a un book signing del libro de Prats y MacClinton en que se mencionó cerrarían en agosto, para que no tengan que cerrar y puedan comenzar a llenar el vacío de Borders. Ahora, Johnny Rockets estará acogido a ley de quiebras pero la semana pasada me tomé una sabrosa batida en el de Plaza Guaynabo. Ni han cerrado ni han despedido sus empleados. Patrocinémoslo.
El desempleo ya no es "nearly 17 percent" sino 15.2 por ciento. Mientras el desempleo aumenta a nivel nacional, está comenzando a bajar en PR. Sigue alto, pero en la dirección correcta.
I agree that people in general are the problem. The majority vote by emotions instead of rationale. So in each 4 yr period we have a different cool or nice looking governor who works for the greater powers and in the following yrs spends his time paying favors, as agreed. We have to open our eyes to the reality that
Agree 100% with this and i am boricua
Great job
Lo que se muestra en los medios de Puerto Rico es lo que sus dueños quieren que sea asimilado por la población. Las causas de los problemas no suelen ser tema de investigación, no vaya a ser que cambie el statu quo. El país vive en la ilusión de una abundancia prestada, con perspectivas laborales bastante limitadas.
So many people in need, without jobs ... Im just hoping that the current governor will not get re-elected ... wishing, hoping and praying!
Epic words to finish it.
¿Por qué Puerto Rico hoy esta en las ruinas! Hace años el gobierno en Puerto Rico manejaba muy mal la economía y gastaba más de lo que recibía. Tenían un gasto llamado gasto deficitario y eso puede ser muy malo para un país. Había mucho desperdicio e ineficiencia. A nadie le decían, “ten los hijos que tu puedas mantener para que no seas carga para la nación”. Nadie le decía a los ciudadanos, “no preguntes que es lo que tu país puede hacer por ti. Pregunta qué es lo qué tu puedes hacer por tu país”. Un día los políticos Puertorriqueños se fueron a Compton California a inspirarse donde vieron colas de paisanos y Afro-Americanos pidiendo prestamos bajo los prestamistas llamados “Payday Loans” (prestamos para el día de paga). Por fuera del “Payday Loans” había carros viejos gruñéndole al viento por mofles rotos e incapacitados que se sostenían en muletas pidiendo prestamos para pagarlos el siguiente día al 20 por ciento de rédito. Los políticos ahí sintieron un poco fuera de lugar pero se amarraron sus corbatas, se apretaron sus trajes y a firmar el contrato con pluma de oro. Con ese dinero, se pusieron a favorecer a sus amigos y darles empleos a sus familiares. Ahora la población en Puerto Rico esta sufriendo necesidades porque esos fueron prestamos de réditos altos como los de tarjeta de crédito. Los políticos pensaron “Que se chinge el político que viene en dos años” y patearon el bote hacia el mar y se fueron a celebrar el préstamo comiendo caviar en un club de Nueva York. Como la International Monetary Fund (IMF) no les puede prestar dinero porque no pueden devaluar el dólar, ya no hay más dinero que ellos puedan pedir prestado para compartirlo con sus familiares y amigos. Es sumamente importante terminar con la corrupción política para siempre aunque tengamos que meter a todos al bote. ¡Todo se podrá hacer si el pueblo mexicano se une detrás de Lomelí y Dios! ¡En Dios no hay corrupción pero si lo hay en la religión y el hombre! (Les recuerdo que la corrupción es genética y no hay quimioterapia para eliminarla del PRI o PAN.)
I didn't tolerate or support for what happened to Guadalupe, and i acknowledge that there were group of students who got out of control , but there are the students, like friends i know, who were hit for no reason whats so ever, helpless, unarmed, just protesting, and girls who I heard were sexually harassed in bathrooms, then you have to think if the police is doing more harm than good. If there are students outta control, arrest them but don't violate our constitutional rights to protest!!!
INICIATIVA COMUNITARIA = VERDADEROS HEROES DE ESTE PAIS
@yiyopr1
Este reportaje no puede ser mas REAL!! ¡Este reportaje es EXCELENTE! Aquí el mundo puede ser testigo de la crisis Puertorriqueña de parte de una voz imparcial. Tremendo.
Quien no estuvo ahi, ni vio lo que paso verdaderamente en la IUPI tiene derecho hablar aqui. La media nos ha mentido y yo vi lo que pasó aya y no fue nada de lindo.
Sencillamente la verdad...
The main problem is the colonial status that it has created genreation of people dependency in USA
CantolaoTV one day you will realize it's the US that's sucking the resources out of the world
puerto rico libre thats y calle 13 is protesting against the usa goverment in puerto rico how can usa be called the greatest bah im puertorican proud to say and for me my island is the greatest VIVA PUERTO RICO
Hay demasiada desilusión en las calles. Demasiada desilusión, falta de fe, muchos sueños caídos entre los niños, jóvenes y viejos. Y la esperanza es ni que Alejandro García Padilla, un Fortuñito de color rojo...
loved the video, me encanto el video
I think it's interesting that Cancel Miranda contracted the services of a USA alarm company, ADT.
Creo que es interesante que Cancel Miranda contrata los servicios de una corporación de alarmas de EEUU.
Fortuno for President!!!
Alguien sabe con que camara se filmo este reportaje? Anybody knows with which camera was it shot?
@videosearcher22
i would like to know to who do you refer this?
This is also beginning in Canada and Toronto. Witness the push for cuts, rising tuition fees and the G20 police crackdown - the largest mass arrests in Canadian history.
What the reporter forgets to mention is that the student are protesting for money no matter how romantic they put it is for money. UPR students enjoy a U.S. base scholarship that pays for their entire tuition and allows them to enjoy a surplus or remaining money that goes into their pockets without having to work. THAT'S the real reason they are protesting. Free money every semester without work, some of us must work 40-50 hours a week or take loans to pay for our education just because didn't qualified for the "standards" of that particular University.
Americans, this is the truth about whats going on in your territory, Puerto Rico. Pay attention, you might learn something.
Este reportaje es uno de los pocos reportajes objetivos que tenemos la oportunidad de ver, mirenlo y entiendanlo porque es la pura verdad sin agendas politicas.
I will not answer to a person who disrespected me calling me a Dumb Ass.
Facil Castigalo con tu voto, vota PPD en el 2012 CON AGP
@niwlek360 The whole segment was about the island as a whole. If you believe what the government says then that is your choice but the reality is that everything said here are actual facts. The record of murders will be broken this year. There is a serious drug problem on the island. Unemployment is the highest in United States. Collective bargaining rights don't exist. Half of families live on less than $18,000 a year. If Fortuño "corrected" everything then why is it that everything is worse?
We don't need any handouts we need independence
We don't need concrete
We need Agriculture
Those kids were painting graffiti on the street; why where they surprised when they were arrested?
@guaznu They are more than free to vote for independence. Tell them to quit voting for status of a territory. They're doing it to themselves. Most Americans could care less if Puerto Rico was a territory, state, or independent.
they keep blaming the past administration. why are they so narrow-minded to realize that THEY were the past administration!!
They really should have protested at the Capitolio, because the politicians here are the one pulling the strings not the people in charge of the university. The UPR is an institution to help those that don't have the money or resources to attend private schooling. When choosing new students into the university prefers students from private schools. Gov. Fortuno is a highly shady politician who wanted a lot of revolutionary books taken away from public schools even though his children read them.
@Naturalyards The American people is as ignorant as we are, there's no problem there. The problem is the government.
The most ridiculous situation, no money for the people,BUT Obama, left Puerto Rico with almost $1,000,000 for his 2012 political campaign. There is money in Puerto Rico, only for politicians and their families.
Esto quedo buenisimo.
Unemployment isnt at 15% or 17% its actually at 19% that is 1 out of every 5 people in Puerto Rico are currently unemployed. The privatization of government services continues. Next in the list is public transportation and roads. They already sold two of the major highways in Puerto Rico in order to get more borrowed money from government bonds to be emitted and valuated by the same company that is buying the roads JP Morgan. For they will get Triple A rated bonds out of this transaction.
I have a solution: The US should take away all federal grants and only allow loans for its territories, you want grants? Become a state.
The united state don't really care much about puerto rico and its sad
Cada vez que veo este video me da tanta rabia y dolor. Como es que algo tan simple como para un gobierno como atender a sus posibles soluciones por medio de una nueva comunidad profesional se desvanece, por culpa de procesos burocráticos. Peleamos entre hermanos, amigos y la autoridad. Mientras el gobierno nos pisotea y no responde al llamado de pueblo, solo por velar sus propios intereses. ¿Quienes somos los culpables? Nada mas y nada menos que nosotros mismo!, ¿Porqué?,
@Unclesamslair I think the person meant apotheosis. In this specific case, statehood would not provide a contrast to the Free Associated State (Estado Libre Asociado). It would simply be a different name for the same dynamic. One can make the argument that the people can still retain their identities, a la Hawaii or Alaska. But, last I checked, the conditions native Hawaiians and Alaskans live in are abysmal compared to the white settlers'.
@guarichetaina Jajajaja you caught on to me. Jesus man how many times did I have to say ocean for you to notice!? I also spelled Caribbean with two "r"s once and another time I used it in plural from oceans.
18 people tried to troll this video to no avail
A pesar de tanta desilusión que se vive en el PR de hoy en día no toda la esperanza está perdida. Se los digo porque conozco tantos puertorriqueños capaces. No se desanimen, concentrémonos en crear una sociedad educada y sana primero, eso lo podemos hacer sin la ayuda de los políticos. Vamos, que si tenemos que hacer escuelas gratuitas en nuestras casas para educar a los muchachos, las hacemos, coño.
Aljazeera doing the job that should've been done by Telemundo, WapaTV or Univision. Shame on them!
a great tell of what is going on in my island thanks aljazeera for let the world now whats happening here
Es increíble cómo los conservadores neocon utilizan las gafas de la objetividad política, cuando sus acciones también sus guiadas por las pasiones políticas.
13:55 dude looks like Manny Paquiao LOL!!!
Linda Carter es " Mexicano--Americana ", para ser más preciso es Mexicano-Irlandesa, como mejor prefieras.
Hay que difundir este vídeo... si alguien puede ponerle subtítulos para que todo PR lo entienda mucho mejorrrr...
In case is true Puerto Rico the statement Puerto Rico as an fiscal experiment, I do not the hypothesis or expectations, but for sure I know the result. TOTAL, MASSIVE FAILURE. We can use it as an example of NOT WHAT TO DO.........
Good documentary, although it does not show the world what the US has done to Puerto Rico since the Spanish American war in 1898. Here are some critical facts: 1900- devalued the peso to 40 cent per dollar, overnight Puerto Ricans were stripped of the little earrings that may have had. If they had $10.00 in the bank, that amount over night dropped to $4.00, imagine at the time earring $.15 a day in the sugar cane fields? After the largest historic hurricane that struck the island US sent NO RELIEF. Within days US imposed a tax hike, farmers could not pay, stripped of their farms. Mid 1970's US in an attempt to industrialize the island offered corporations as an
incentive triple tax exempt (federal, state, local) taxes. Companies poured into the island making billions w/out paying taxes. One would argue that this created jobs to its people but check the minimum wage, insult compare to what the US paid. Under the "Internal Revenue Code 936 and under the Clinton administration this triple tax exempt was phased out between 1996 - 2006, thus stripping island residents of thousands of jobs. Imagine living on the island and due to the 1948 "leye de Modesa" or gage law Puerto Ricans could not own a Puerto Rican flag nor have political conversations, or sign their national anthem - end results 10 year imprisonment. Jones act of 1920 or more specifically the " Merchant Marine Act of 1920" goods purchased from other countries are not allowed to be shipped directly to Puerto Rico because they must be delivered to the island on US registry shipped. Goods will be directed to Jacksonville Florida, reloaded on US ships then back to Puerto Rico. If not for this law the island would be $500,000,00 richer annually. For those who have visited the island recently, ask why a pair of Jordon sneakers in the US cost $125 yet the same model in PR is $200? Current taxes on the island $11.65, US $8.00, water cost more than double in PR. So who is the only country in world history who bombed their own people. And yet when Puerto Ricans take a stand for their own constitutional right they are jailed for sidicious conspiracy to overthrow the government. So we were broke, decided to issue municipal bonds at $.30 with a $.70 interest per dollar, Wall Street billionaires jumped on the band wagon, PR owes them $73, billion. Sadly our current governor is cutting Medicaid and education to help resolve the debt. No US must pay for what they have done to Puerto Rico in the past 100 years!!!!!! Step up US!!
Why don't they show the semester before that when the studens barricaded all the entrances to the university making it so they couldn't give class for a whole month? Not thinking of students about to graduate, or about the teacher and jobs of the thousand in all there recints across the island, just thinking of their social ideals, using "The future" as a pretext for their riots.
Yo solo veo una REALIDAD actual y es que tienen una deuda imposible de pagar.
Lo mas malo de esa deuda es que Puerto Rico no se puede declarar en bancarota por que no son un Estado de USA y por lo tanto las leyes de Bancarota no aplica a ellos...... Asi que esa deuda hay que pagarla (aumentando los taxes y con medidas de auteridad.
Dentro de las medidas de Austeridad el Gobierno tendria que despedir casi la mitad de los empleados publicos quedandose solo con los necesarios / minimos para operar / mantener funcionando el Gobierno y continuar prestando Servicios.
Inevitablemente, la pobreza seguira creciendo a la par de el desempleo, y el crimen no se quedara atras creciendo tambien.
EN ESE MOMENTO SOLO TENDRIAN 2 SALIDAS:
1- Miles de ciudadanos escaparian a los Estados Unidos huyendo del Desempleo, Pobreza, Crimen.
2- Finalmente pasar a ser otro Estado de USA para asi entonces poder declararse en bancarota y que los Estados Unidos les den un Rescate Financiero.
+ELMATRACA69 Puerto Rico no pudiera acogerse a la ley de quiebra aun si fuera un estado. Esa ley es para los municipios y agencias, no para los Estados. Los Estados Unidos ya rechazaron un rescate financiero. La crisis en Puerto Rico es una crisis fiscal más que económica, no se está recaudando lo que podría recaudar, le se está imponiendo la mayoría de la carga fiscal a la clase trabajadora.
"Con lo que cuenta este pais!!" pero nada todo se resuelve con "Ay bendito" para las proximas elecciones que se repita la labor sin precedentes. Mi gente NO se puede esperar a que Estados Unidos nos resuelva todo. Hay que cambiar los lideres como se cambia de pañal contstantemente y por la misma razon.