La Jornada: Se Acabaron las Promesas
As a colony of the United States, Puerto Rico has faced an intense regime of debt and attacks on public services – the PROMESA law and financial board. La Jornada: Se Acabaron las Promesas is building a movement to put the fate of Puerto Rico back in the hands of the people of Puerto Rico.
La Jornada: Se Acabaron las Promesas (La Jornada) is a movement working for Puerto Rican liberation and decolonization. It has been a focal point of resistance against PROMESA, a U.S. law that authorized the creation of a fiscal control oversight board that has complete control of Puerto Rico’s economy.
La Jornada has supported agroecological and community self-governed projects, fought the closure of schools, held political education days in defense of land, and collaborated in the construction of mutual aid centers. Through these efforts, they have sought to create an economy that serves people first and to show that breaking free from foreign debt, austerity, and neoliberalism is essential for Puerto Rico to be prosperous. They have also created projects to help communities learn how to govern themselves.
La Jornada is successfully asserting Puerto Ricans’ right to sovereignty and self-determination against the U.S. colonial regime and leading the way in a long-term transformation away from it.
