WAR AGAINST ALL PUERTO RICANS
Revolution and Terror in America’s Colony
Puerto Rico Up For Sale
The 2015 “Puerto Rico Investment Summit” was a luxury event. Foreigners paid $1,500 to attend the two-day conference. Puerto Ricans had to pay $2,500. That’s how luxurious it was.
It was held in the spectacular Condado Vanderbilt Hotel, which is owned by billionaire hedge funder John Paulson.
http://periodismoinvestigativo.com/2015/03/puerto-rico-up-for-sale/#
The Condado Vanderbilt Hotel
In fact, John Paulson hosted and catered the entire affair. The majority of the 400 attendees could barely speak any Spanish, so the conference was conducted in English. Here are some key moments:
- Fahad Ghaffar, the executive director of Paulson & Co., announced that Paulson wants to build more high-rise buildings along the San Juan coastline, on Ashford Avenue.
- DJ Gribbin, director of the McQuarie Group, described the “opportunities for Public Private Partnerships (P3s) in Puerto Rico.”
- Manuel Rodriguez, from the law firm of Pietrantoni, Mendez & Alvarez, reported on the renovation of bathrooms in the Luís Muñoz Marín Airport, and the “highly viable business deal” which privatizing the airport had delivered for its investors…who were from Mexico and the US.
- Margaret Pena-Juvelier, the president of Sotheby’s, gave a powerpoint presentation on the luxury mansions available throughout the island. The prices ranged from $1 million to $12 million.
- Carlos Ubiñas, CEO of UBS Puerto Rico, reported that “you don’t get a sense that there is high unemployment” in Puerto Rico.
- Alberto Bacó, the Puerto Rico Secretary of Economic Development, announced that, thanks to Act 20 and Act 22, “my friends’ children are getting jobs with companies and people under Act 20/22 decrees.”
It is clear from statements like these, that Paulson’s people live in a different world:
A world where destroying the island’s coastline is “good business.”
Where privatizing the island infrastructure – airports, schools, highways, water supply, electrical grid – is “smart management.”
Where people live in $12 million mansions because they’ve “earned” them.
Where jobs are available “for everyone who wants one.”
Where getting those jobs for your children, and your friends’ children, is not corruption or nepotism but “economic development.”
The real message of this conference is that Puerto Rico has become the Wild Wild West…where you can grab property for pennies on the dollar, pay no taxes, keep three sets of books, and hide money in one corporation after another.
In other words, like Cuba in the film Godfather II, Puerto Rico is up for sale.
Never mind that the MacQuarie Group has been an economic disaster in three separate continents:
That the privatized Luis Muñoz Marín airport has not paid its electric bills for three years, and owes the people of Puerto Rico 25 million dollars.
That “P3s” (Public Private Partnerships) are really P5s…Public Private Partnerships for the Plunder of Puerto Rico.
That millionaires buy their mansions with “Jumbo Loans” that require No Money Down, while Puerto Ricans are losing their own homes and moving to Florida.
http://www.titlesource.com/News/good-deals-on-jumbo-loans-to-be-had-in-puerto-rico-housing-market
For a closer look at the Paulson “Puerto Rico Investment Summit,” read this detailed report:
http://periodismoinvestigativo.com/2015/03/puerto-rico-up-for-sale/#
And then ask yourself…what can you do…to stop this.
What can we all do…to make sure that Puerto Rico…is not up for sale.
For a history of the War Against All Puerto Ricans, read the book…
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Buck,
About the Coffee!! Puerto Rico was a principal grower of the best Coffee in the world, until USA decided to invade, get rid of all other crops and convert the whole island into one crop SUGAR!!!
That USA also over worked and under paid the sugar cane worker. The abuse was horrible for the workers!
You should do some history reading on Puerto Rico before giving your opinion, Buck!
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Native detractors who appear to resent clean, orderly and yes, conscientious re-investment [where only decay, decline and denunciation now exist] should move to Cuba, where they will be happier with the wild fauna and unadulterated coastline. They should also learn what even little uneducated children there already know: You cannot lose what you do not have. So, what you think you are losing [in taxes] is a logical impossibility. But keep resisting, and you will never get even the aroma of any new tax base prospects. Investors willing to risk life and property to try to save this island from self-destruction, are not here yet. So,wake up and smell the coffee. For that matter, try growing some for export… It might require your work versus more complaining. Instead of cursing the darkness, try lighting a candle.
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Buck,
You seem to believe that Puerto Ricans are inherently incapable of developing their own economy, managing their own affairs, and asserting their own sovereignty.
You write that their aptitudes run more toward “self-destruction.”
Rest assured, this destruction has been externally imposed.
Let’s remove the Jones Act (Section 27 of the 1920 Merchant Marine Act.
Oh yes, I forgot…that was imposed by the US, for the past 95 years.
–Nelson Denis
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What can we do??? …. “The real message of this conference is that Puerto Rico has become the Wild Wild West … where you can grab property for pennies on the dollar, pay no taxes, keep three sets of books, and hide money in one corporation after another.”
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