Puerto Rico

Island Territories

In our first episode, we’ll look at the history and current affairs of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico in the context of its relationship with the mainland US. For more information on this topic visit NEXO Blog.
Guest:
Ángel Collado-Schwarz has been visiting professor of history at Columbia, Yale, and NYU, and has taught at the University of Puerto Rico Law School and the Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe. He earned a PhD in Contemporary Latin American History at Universidad Complutense in Madrid, and was communications advisor to former Puerto Rico Governor Rafael Hernández Colón (1985-1992). He’s the founder of Fundación Voz del Centro, which transmits an oral history weekly radio program in Puerto Rico and New York since 2002, and his most recent books are Truman y Puerto Rico: el origen de un proyecto descolonizador fallido (2019) and Eisenhower y el Caribe: Muñoz Marín, Castro y Trujillo (2021).