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Puerto Rico Getting the Detroit Treatment
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
07 Nov 2017
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Puerto Rico, a hurricane-ravaged colony of the U.S., has been subjected to much the same financial dictatorship as Detroit, a Black internal colony, said Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of Detroit-based Pan African News. “Here again, you have these financial decisions, against the will of the people, made by a small group of people, to the detriment of the people,” said Azikiwe. Detroit was forced into bankruptcy in 2013, its citizens stripped of control of their local affairs.

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