The number of bankruptcy cases filed in Puerto Rico skyrocketed last month, when an astounding 19.5 percent more petitions for protection from creditors were filed at the local court, research firm Boletín de Puerto Rico ...
Puerto Rico’s bankruptcy filings were up 13 percent in February, when 930 cases were submitted to the court, versus the same month in 2015, according to numbers released Thursday by research company Boletín de Puerto ...
WASHINGTON — José Raúl Perales, a Santurce-born regional trade expert who spent years advising the Puerto Rican government — and later the U.S. private sector and the Department of Homeland Security — says bankruptcy protection ...