Pierluisi calls PR-USVI rum rivalry a ‘race to the bottom’
January 30, 2013
Puerto Rico isn’t a country, so unlike most of its English-speaking Caribbean neighbors, it doesn’t have an embassy in Washington. And it’s not a state either, so it can’t send to Congress the eight lawmakers ...
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CARICOM envoys vow to take rum complaints to WTO
January 29, 2013
WASHINGTON — Diplomats representing the 15-member Caribbean Community have begun a public lobbying campaign against the use of federal excise-tax rebates by Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands to subsidize rum production.
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D.C.-area Hispanic group honors Dominican diplomat
November 20, 2012
WASHINGTON — Veteran Dominican diplomat Roberto B. Saladín, an early champion of the “twin plant” program that for years linked the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico economically, accepted a public service award Friday night from ...
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