On Sunday’s episode of The People’s Guide to Power, a live election series on WNYC, we explore the close ties between New York, Puerto Rico and the broader Latino community and how that translates in terms of votes and resources.
Attendees at the 2022 Puerto Rican Day Parade in Midtown Manhattan on June 12.Mayor Eric Adams led a delegation there last weekend to survey the damage left by Hurricane Fiona, which knocked out the electrical grid and sent flood waters raging across parts of the country.
“We don’t say it lightly that Puerto Rico is the sixth borough of New York City - we mean it,” said Adams, “and we’re going to continue to be committed to this.” fended off a fierce primary challenge in August“The development of a broader Latino agenda and certainly a broader Puerto Rican agenda hasn’t necessarily occurred,” Rivera said in an interview ahead of the show. “You’ve certainly had Puerto Rican electeds that have been in office over the years, but they just established fiefdoms for themselves.
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