{"id":109,"date":"2018-05-03T15:16:55","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T19:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/carola\/news-events\/past-events\/puerto-rico-the-us-a-fiscal-and-constitutional-crisis\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:15:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:15:01","slug":"puerto-rico-the-us-a-fiscal-and-constitutional-crisis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/carola\/news-events\/past-events\/puerto-rico-the-us-a-fiscal-and-constitutional-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Puerto Rico &amp; the U.S.: A Fiscal and Constitutional Crisis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-112\" src=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/carola\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/05\/IMG_5011.jpg\" alt=\"Professors Santos and Mezey along with Juan Dalmau at the panel discussion\" width=\"4094\" height=\"2729\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/carola\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/05\/IMG_5011.jpg 4094w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/carola\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/05\/IMG_5011-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/carola\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/05\/IMG_5011-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/carola\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/05\/IMG_5011-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/carola\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/05\/IMG_5011-500x334.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/carola\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/05\/IMG_5011-740x494.jpg 740w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/carola\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/05\/IMG_5011-980x654.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/carola\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/05\/IMG_5011-1220x814.jpg 1220w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/carola\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/05\/IMG_5011-1440x960.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4094px) 100vw, 4094px\" \/>On March 5, 2018, Juan Dalmau, Secretary General and Senator at-large for the Puerto Rican Independence Party was invited to discuss the political and fiscal crisis afflicting Puerto Rico. Eric LeCompte, Executive Director of Jubilee USA, and Professor Naomi Mezey of Georgetown\u00a0Law also participated in the lunchtime panel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 5, 2018, Juan Dalmau, Secretary General and Senator at-large for the Puerto Rican Independence Party was invited to discuss the political and fiscal crisis afflicting Puerto Rico. Eric [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"parent":8,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-109","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/carola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/carola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/carola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/carola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/carola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/carola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3025,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/carola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/109\/revisions\/3025"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/carola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/carola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}