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The daughter-in-law of Puerto Rico 's Pro US Statehood party @GovPierluisi

Will head @corcorangroup 's luxury real estate endeavors in PR

Pierluisi has staunchly defended controversial local tax breaks luring thousands of wealthy US residents to settle in the colony

https://twitter.com/corcorangroup/status/1468966194728214542

@GovPierluisi @corcorangroup Pro US Statehood party @GovPierluisi again* defended Puerto Rico ley 22 tax break for wealthy US settlers

Explicitly BECAUSE it heats the luxury real estate market

In Dec his daughter-in-law Blanca was named @corcorangroup luxury real estate lead in PR

elvocero.com/gobierno/forta…

@GovPierluisi defended giving wealthy US settlers govt incentives to buy property in Puerto Rico

Days after @bgraulau ‘s viral video (below) exposed displacement PR faces

& Ismael Cruz Córdova went viral explaining how realtors in PR wouldn't sell to him *because he’s Boricua

https://twitter.com/bgraulau/status/1476177915637346308

Video slamming $ of real estate & displacement in Puerto Rico

As PR lawmakers from 4 parties debate changing/abolishing tax breaks for wealthy US settlers

Watch US settlers spend more $ on public relations,political donations & orgs dependent on their $ in PR to shift narrative

https://twitter.com/delanadapr/status/1479577773970759685

2021: A record # of US Settlers moved to Puerto Rico lured by tax breaks Pro US Statehood party @GovPierluisi defends

His daughter-in-law Blanca sells luxury real estate

ALL BUT 1 single fam residence in VSJ Puerto Rico bought by a foreigner btw 2020-21

elnuevodia.com/negocios/econo…

@GovPierluisi “The walls are the publishers of the poor.” ― Eduardo Galeano

Graffiti & posters opposing wealthy US settlers moving to Puerto Rico are all over San Juan

Pro-US Statehood party @GovPierluisi continues to defend the PR tax breaks which bring them

@GovPierluisi On the eve of today's protest against wealthy US settlers in Puerto Rico

Alberto Bacó Pro-Commonwealth (Colony) party Ex Secretary of DDEC-defends the tax breaks luring settlers👀

A petition to end the tax breaks has already garnered over 500 signatures

change.org/p/puerto-rico-…

Protests against settler colonialism & displacement in Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 yesterday 📸

#GringoGoHome demanded an end to PR tax breaks luring thousands of wealthy US 🇺🇸 residents to move to PR & buy up land 🏝

I wrote on how the tax breaks came to life ⬇️

thedailybeast.com/the-horrific-c…

https://twitter.com/adrianadesala/status/1483228628758536195

🚨 Millions in Hurricane Maria Recovery $$$ was used to advertise Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 as a tax haven for wealthy US 🇺🇸 settlers

Promoting the colony as their new home 🏡

As real estate costs & displacement rise in PR

You can see the ads from Silicon Valley to JFK airport in #NYC

https://twitter.com/Motinsitepegas/status/1482444692495163397

Video ⬇️ Wealthy US settler explains how he’s evading taxes in Puerto Rico & asks followers to join

Locals angered by this aren’t xEnOPhOBiC

They’re angered by laws benefiting wealthy ppl from metropole 🇺🇸,pro US statehood party @GovPierluisi’s family, & displacing Boricuas 🇵🇷

https://twitter.com/GilluisPerez_/status/1484382728166395906

Anger against settler colonialism in Puerto Rico is rising

Meanwhile the luxury real estate business of pro US Statehood party @GovPierluisi 's daughter-in-law is ✨thriving✨

Thx largely to PR tax breaks for wealthy US settlers which the (deeply unpopular) Pierluisi defends

https://twitter.com/AshAgony/status/1483633169345748995

Group that destroyed a statue of Spanish colonizer Juan Ponce de León in Puerto Rico yesterday also demanded

➡️ repeal of Act 22 (60)

The tax break inviting wealthy US residents to settle in PR ,that pro US Statehood party @GovPierluisi defends & his family benefits from

📹 ⬇️

https://twitter.com/bgraulau/status/1485765519806451713

2 Protests against settler colonialism in Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 today

PR & NYC

Protesters-Abolish PR tax breaks bringing thousands of wealthy US 🇺🇸residents to settle in the colony

Pro-US Statehood party @GovPierluisi defends the breaks as his daughter-in-law sells luxury real estate

📍PR & NYC

Protests against settler colonialism gentrification & displacement in Puerto Rico this wknd

Calling to abolish tax breaks bringin wealthy US settlers to PR

& reaffirming PR beaches are public🗣

Pro US statehood party @GovPierluisi supports the tax breaks Ley 22(60)

https://twitter.com/deviIette/status/1487494726303592450

Finally* the @nytimes writes on settler colonialism in Puerto Rico & actually focuses on some of the displacement

But of course it's called " gentrification " here

https://twitter.com/nytimesbusiness/status/1488306365487538176?s=20&t=o-oH5YjWLl4WYwuFG3zhFg

@nytimes Puerto Rico 's potholes are blackholes to other realms

Yet somehow a crew was found to erase a "gringo go home" sign

Across a "Welcome home" sign directed at wealthy US settlers evading taxes in PR

Breaks Pro US Statehood party @GovPierluisi defends as #PierluisiRenuncia grows

As US settlers 🇺🇸 buy land in Puerto Rico 🇵🇷

Some try to privatize PR 's beaches 🏖️ ( public by law) sparking protests. Next is 2/12 in Dorado

Settlers claim they're victims of harassment for their "pro-economic development policies"

👀Threaten to call cops & triple security

https://twitter.com/PRexitBook/status/1491941350404730882

Protest @ Dorado Beach today just outside of the area the Ritz Carlton claims is “private”

They chanted @ the developer

“Stubbe pal carajo”

⬇️ barriers they placed to keep ppl from entering

Puerto Ricans are rebelling against US developers & settlers privatizing their beaches

https://twitter.com/kristianbob/status/1492133655564726275

Stubbe is Puerto Rican but the Ritz Carlton is a US corp largely serving wealthy ppl from the US-privatizing a public beach in PR🏖

Stubbe said PR would turn into a “ghetto” w/o wealthy US settlers lured to the colony by ley 22-60🎥

Ghetto beach protest🧵

https://twitter.com/vaquero2xl/status/1492493622142509056?s=21

https://twitter.com/LaPelucaDeOlivo/status/1366378019162632194

Wealthy US settlers 🇺🇸 are grabbing land across Puerta de Tierra just outside Old San Juan 🇵🇷

Including an elementary school*

Residents & Puerto Rico ‘s pro Independence Party are protesting speculation & displacement

Incentivized by settler colonial tax breaks like ley 22-60

https://twitter.com/marialourdespip/status/1506424366090883082

When pressed with concerns of displacement ? Mayor of San Juan , Pro US statehood party🇺🇸 Miguel Romero

➡️Claimed he didn’t know if gentrification was happening in SJ , Puerto Rico 🇵🇷

Romero is one of the *top recipients* of donations from wealthy US settlers lured by ley 22-60

https://twitter.com/NotiOeste/status/1507443976474791936

Residents join Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 pro independence party to protest gentrification & displacement in San Juan wrought by settler colonial tax breaks like ley 22-60

Pro US Statehood party 🇺🇸 @GovPierluisi defends the breaks

His daughter-in-law leads Corcoran luxury real estate in PR

https://twitter.com/marialourdespip/status/1507435858143715332

Residents of Puerta de Tierra say these bldgs could be used to serve their community

Instead they’ve been sold to wealthy settlers

Many US tax evaders 🇺🇸 lured to Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 by ley 22-60 have bought up property just to turn into airb&b ‘s / hold & flip as the market heats♨️

https://twitter.com/DianerysC/status/1506311937096830980

“Born losers-never been able to succeed”👀

What critics of settler colonial tax break Ley 22-60 are according to Alberto Baco -Pro Commonwealth(colony) party fmr Sec of Econ Dev

He & Pro US Statehood party @GovPierluisi defend luring wealthy 🇺🇸 tax evaders to buy Puerto Rico 🇵🇷

https://twitter.com/willieseconpr/status/1509007845693562880

Víctor Alicea says wealthy US settlers are buying up Puerto Rico . In Santurce they're raising rents & kicking out locals

Settlers offered him a buy out but he said “If I sell I won’t be able to move back”

“They're taking the heart out of Santurce”

telemundopr.com/programas/rayo…

🚨US Morgan Reed Group is selling a bldg holding one of the most successful mutual aid organizations in Puerto Rico 🇵🇷

Centro de Apoyo Mutuo in Caguas started occupying the abandoned bldg post Hurricane Maria

CAM-Caguas ability to serve PR is at risk⚠️

https://twitter.com/ConMijente/status/1514293804987256841?s=20&t=geifDcnb7x4WaHYRNw2Maw

The bldg was abandoned for yrs before CAM-Caguas took it over to use for mutual aid

✍️🏽@comsocpr demands official bldg title be passed to them

They also explain how US settler 🇺🇸 speculation is putting their community work & Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 at risk

comedoressocialespr.org/post/traspaso-…

CEO of Morgan Reed Group Puerto Rico is Brian Tenenbaum

In this video Brain promotes the settler colonial tax breaks which brought him to PR 🔽


Incentives hailed by pro US Statehood party @GovPierluisi

Incentives putting CAM-Caguas at risk
@comsocpr

Earth Day 🌎 scandal in Puerto Rico 🇵🇷

@corcorangroup luxury real estate was caught trying to sell protected land in PR w/o specifying it

When @primerahora inquired ads were removed 👀

The daughter in-law of pro US statehood 🇺🇸 party @GovPierluisi leads Corcoran in PR ✨

https://twitter.com/TorresGotay/status/1517523921230249986

*Protected land* in Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 being sold for $15M🌴

Now deleted ad promised zoning was changing soon 👀

How would @corcorangroup know this?

The daughter in-law of pro US statehood 🇺🇸 party @GovPierluisi leads Corcoran luxury real estate in PR 🙃

https://twitter.com/agonzalezcosta/status/1514942038340419594

As wealthy US settlers 🇺🇸 buy up Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 

Domestic violence survivors can't afford new homes

@RimaBrusi says this isn't just “ gentrification “ Boricuas displaced from their country

Pro US statehood party @GovPierluisi still defends settler colonial tax break ley22

https://twitter.com/cpipr/status/1519639163972247552

Multiple groups of US settlers 🇺🇸 in Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 have launched multiple fundraisers to stop an increase in decree payment which gifts them their tax breaks

This $112k+ suit was followed by $34k raised to petition PR ‘s Supreme Court

Imagine their influence come election time

Hey Siri, show me settler colonialism as tourism strategy

Boricua is literally* a word to identify a person from #PuertoRico by birth or descent

Millions in public $ is going to attract wealthy USians to move to & “become” Puerto Rican as Boricuas face historic displacement 💔

https://twitter.com/discover_pr/status/1521520063408390145