As a United Nations committee held hearings on the status of Puerto Rico in Manhattan, N.Y., outside a group of protesters rallied Monday in support of Oscar López Rivera, a Puerto Rican nationalist whose imprisonment for 34 years now is getting increasing attention.

Crippling Trade Policies, Brain Drain, Sluggish Economy Constrain Puerto Rico’s Progress, Petitioners Tell Decolonization Committee as Session Resumes Special Committee on Decolonization, 3rd & 4th Meetings (AM & PM).

On June 17, the deadline expired for Dominicans of Haitian heritage to apply for resident permits after the 2014 law that revoked  citizenship from any person of Haitian ancestry born after 1929. Up to 300,000 people could be expelled from the Dominican Republic.

Independence from the United States. That’s what almost 2,000 Puerto Ricans in the island’s capital of San Juan demanded on Sunday, June 14.