Puerto Rico sees itself as a Latin American country — yes, even the pro-statehood folks, though they may not realize it — and that is how it is generally seen by the rest of Latin America.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico--Puerto Rico faces a government shutdown on Oct. 31, including halting its hurricane recovery, if Congress doesn't provide billions in emergency funds, said Treasury ...

Ocasio-Cortez, as was mentioned quite a few times on her campaign trail and thereafter, is from the Bronx. Her dad is from New York. And her mother is from Puerto Rico. Left out of the national ...

IS PUERTO RICO A FOREIGN COUNTRY. Share full article. May 23, 1899. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from May 23, 1899, Page 6 Buy Reprints.

Rick Santorum, the former Republican presidential candidate, blamed "the country of Puerto Rico" for its "woefully deficient" response to Hurricane Maria. To be clear, Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory.

Hurricane Maria may have killed more than 4,600 Americans in Puerto Rico, according to a recent academic report, but Americans paid a lot less attention to the storm compared to storms of similar ...

White House spokesman Hogan Gidley twice referred to Puerto Rico as “that country” during a television appearance Tuesday in which he defended a series of tweets by President Trump lashing out ...

A White House spokesperson referred to Puerto Rico as "that country" twice in a TV appearance Tuesday while defending President Donald Trump amid a continuing feud with the U.S. territory's ...