Puerto Rico: student protesters face "Egyptian" repression? http://www.ww4report.com/node/9457

"As I watch the news from the States and I see [US secretary of state Hillary Clinton] exhort the Egyptian police and military to use ‘restraint' and demand that leaders in the Middle East open up to reforms," Puerto Rico-based constitutional law professor Judith Berkan told US senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) in a Feb. 2 open letter, "I ask myself--why the silence about Puerto Rico, the largest remaining direct colony of the United States?" (Puerto Rico Daily Sun, Feb. 2) Elba Carrasquillo, a Puerto Rican living in Egypt, praised the UPR protesters and warned that "if Puerto Ricans don't wake up about what has been going on in my island…the road to becoming a country like the Egypt of the past 30 years will get shorter and shorter." (NotiCel, Mayagüez, Feb. 3, from INS)