Esencia, a proposed tourism and residential complex, promises “environmental stewardship”—but will require an estimated 1.25 million gallons of potable water daily in a municipality already facing a water crisis. Yarimar Bonilla on the politics behind Puerto Rico’s water shortages:

Carrying Water

As enormous sums flow to creditors and investors in Puerto Rico, the state continues to recede.

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How do you follow money that is designed to be untraceable? Our new Reporter's Guide to Investigating Cryptocurrency, produced with @icij.org, breaks down how to trace wallet addresses, work with blockchain explorers and verify crypto transactions for your next investigation. https://twp.ai/E5F6q4

Part II of my law and petro-masculinity project, "International Law and Petro-Masculinity" is now on SSRN (and looking for a journal to call home). I would *love* comments from the brilliant international law community on here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Jamaica’s beach access crisis: ‘We shouldn’t be forced to fight for what is already ours’

Jamaica’s beach access crisis: ‘We shouldn’t be forced to fight for what is already ours’

Activists argue business model is ‘plantation tourism’ designed to benefit elite and disadvantage most Jamaicans

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Our 2026 Latin American Studies catalog is out! Learn more about our new and notable titles: https://ow.ly/3Hre50ZaE9P #ReadUP #LatinAmericanStudies

Without full sovereignty, Puerto Rico is significantly constrained in its ability to design independent fiscal or monetary policies — leaving the island vulnerable to tourism investments that are becoming increasingly financialized.

Financial Speculators See Big Opportunities in Puerto Rico

Without full sovereignty, Puerto Rico is significantly constrained in its ability to design independent fiscal or monetary policies — leaving the island vulnerable to tourism investments that are becoming increasingly financialized.

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As I conclude a great year with the OpEd Project, I'm happy to share my latest piece in Jacobin. It examines how tax incentives have become intertwined with Puerto Rico's tourism industry, reshaping the archipelago's political economy and fueling financial speculation. jacobin.com/2026/06/puer...

Financial Speculators See Big Opportunities in Puerto Rico

Without full sovereignty, Puerto Rico is significantly constrained in its ability to design independent fiscal or monetary policies — leaving the island vulnerable to tourism investments that are beco...

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Another “best beach” list, another reminder that paradise is legally produced. If you want the politics behind it: Who owns Puerto Rico’s beaches? Law, extractivism, and the political economy of paradise doi.org/10.1080/0143...

Who owns Puerto Rico’s beaches? Law, extractivism, and the political economy of paradise

Puerto Rican beaches are central to sociolegal debates on economic development, tax policies, luxury real estate and climate change. Despite being constitutionally public, access to many of the 122...

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Condé Nast Traveler - Travel Reviews, News, Guides & Tips@cntraveler.com.web.brid.gy · 4mo ago

Excited to share my new article in @lsijournal.bsky.social: “Vacationing on a Tax Haven” explores how Puerto Rico’s visitor economy is intertwined with offshore finance, colonial legality, and extraction. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Fuel has become the frontline of economic warfare, especially in Cuba. 🇨🇺 JOSE ATILES examines how US tariffs, sanctions, and emergency powers operate as forms of state crime that produce systemic harm and human suffering in Cuba and across the region. verfassungsblog.de/cuba-blockade/

If we in the US and elsewhere are to use social strikes to retake control of our governments... we have much to learn from the joyful, creative protests of our Puerto Rican comrades.

Esencia No Va: Protesting Neocolonial Capitalist Development in Puerto Rico

A movement is forming to defend the community and island against a project that would turn over a significant piece of Puerto Rico’s land to foreign billionaires, to serve their needs, not the needs of the Puerto Rican people.

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An opportunity Visiting Assistant Professor in Criminology, Law, and Society: illinois.csod.com/ui/internal-...

Happy Easter from Finance and Society team! Here is our special easter egg for all of you: a fresh Call for Papers for this year's Finance and Society conference happening again at CBS Copenhagen! Deadline: May 1st Hoping to see many of you there!

The April 2 edition of The Latino Newsletter is by Cris Seda Chabrier, and edited by @vaquero2xl.bsky.social Airbnbs Are Eating Up This Puerto Rico Island Municipality Short-term rentals have increased prices and taken over residences in Culebra, analysis shows

Airbnbs Are Eating Up This Puerto Rico Island Municipality

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A monstrously comprehensive nearly three hour long episode of @thedigradio.bsky.social examining the economic warfare dimensions of the US-Israeli war on Iran and Iran’s asymmetric response with Aslı Bâli, @yarbatman.bsky.social, and Nicholas Mulder. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/econ...

Economic Warfare w/ Aslı Bâli, Esfandyar Batmanghelidj, Nicholas Mulder

Featuring Aslı Bâli, Esfandyar Batmanghelidj, and Nicholas Mulder on the economic warfare unfolding with the US-Israeli war on Iran—and beyond.

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"I was hoping bad bunny would get more into the weeds of the promesa debt restructuring" - @jeffstein.bsky.social PROMESA content plz @scaggs.bsky.social @alexckaufman.bsky.social ieefa.org/sites/defaul...

The International Journal of Law in Context is seeking a new co-Editor-in-Chief! Submit your application by 28 February. 📩 Learn more: https://cup.org/4qSA89E #lawandsociety #sociolegal #LawSky

Doing public-facing sociology? Our Public Sociology Awards 2026 are open. Celebrate creative work beyond the academy. Deadline: 13 March. Apply now 👇 buff.ly/2qmok7D

“Atiles shows how those in power weaponise colonial legality to legitimate the social, economic & political violence they commit against marginalised communities.” Vanessa Jiménez-Read reviews Crisis by Design by @joseatiles.bsky.social in our new issue. buff.ly/pPlI9yG @stanfordpress.bsky.social

It's been a long time coming. After several years of revisions, my book Emotional Filipinos is coming out on April 15th. Please share and retweet! It would really mean a lot to me. Preorder sales available here: ugapress.org/978082037545...

For @nybooks.com, I wrote about the transformation of the world economy since the 80’s, as beautifully told in Ian Kumekawa’s Empty Vessel (with a very brief shoutout to the city where I grew up) www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Rolling with the Economic Tides | Vanessa Ogle

Ian Kumekawa’s Empty Vessel follows the lifespan of one barge, from bunkhouse to floating prison to barracks and back, as it traces the shadowy outer limits of the maritime economy.

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Puerto Rico’s New Transparency Law Attacks a Right Forged in Struggle thefulcrum.us/governance-l...

Puerto Rico’s New Transparency Law Attacks a Right Forged in Struggle

At a time when public debate in the United States is consumed by questions of secrecy, accountability and the selective release of government records, Puerto Rico has quietly taken a dangerous step in...

thefulcrum.us

US will be exempt from global tax deal targeting profits of large multinationals

US will be exempt from global tax deal targeting profits of large multinationals

Agreement finalised by the OECD waters down a landmark 2021 deal that set a minimum global corporate tax of 15% Nearly 150 countries have agreed on a landmark plan to stop large global companies shifting profits to low-tax jurisdictions, but the US will be exempt from the deal, angering tax transparency groups. The plan, finalised by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, excludes large US-based multinational corporations from the 15% global minimum tax after negotiations between the Trump administration and other members of the G7. Continue reading...

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Me and Mary Robertson in @ripejournal.bsky.social articulating a Marxist perspective on race, racialisation and subprime in a special issue on Raced Finance expertly co-edited by @iliasalami.bsky.social @alibhagat.bsky.social @vincentguermond.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Locating race in capitalism’s laws of motion: the case of subprime

Through a critical engagement with the racial capitalism literature, this article problematizes interpretations of the subprime crisis that foreground expropriation and the historical continuity of...

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“Atiles shows how those in power weaponise colonial legality to legitimate the social, economic & political violence they commit against marginalised communities.” Vanessa Jiménez-Read reviews Crisis by Design by @joseatiles.bsky.social in our new issue. buff.ly/pPlI9yG @stanfordpress.bsky.social

This is an extraordinary summary of the state of crypto-authoritarianism by @joseatiles.bsky.social: botpopuli.net/the-crypto-s...

The Crypto-State

A familiar story about cryptocurrencies is that they emerged under the promise of financial emancipation. Crypto-assets and blockchain technologies were ...

botpopuli.net

New from @vaquero2xl.bsky.social for @thelatinonewsletter.org Puerto Rico Signs Bill Critics Say Is a Threat to Public Information Law 156-2025 became official this past weekend

Puerto Rico Signs Bill Critics Say Is a Threat to Public Information

SAN JUAN — Over the weekend, Governor Jenniffer González-Colón signed a controversial bill into law, placing new restrictions on access to public information through records requests. Critics say that...

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A familiar story about cryptocurrencies is that they emerged under the promise of financial emancipation. Crypto-assets and blockchain technologies were imagined as tools to decentralize state power, bypass corrupt institutions, and democratize economic life botpopuli.net/the-crypto-s...

The Crypto-State

A familiar story about cryptocurrencies is that they emerged under the promise of financial emancipation. Crypto-assets and blockchain technologies were ...

botpopuli.net

Puerto Ricans are Americans who have no vote in Congress, no representation in the Electoral College, little power to challenge military buildup. Now the archipelago finds itself being used as an unaccountable platform & staging ground for US adventurism in Latin America jacobin.com/2025/12/trum...

Trump Wants Puerto Rico to Be the US’s Aircraft Carrier

Donald Trump is aiming to restore US supremacy in the western hemisphere through presidential will, military power, and emergency authority, unconstrained by Congress or international law — a strategi...

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