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Valeria Soto Marrero

Columnist, La Isla Que Viene
Beat · Population, births, Act 60, Puerto Rican-owned business, the diaspora
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Economist and columnist. She writes La Isla Que Viene, the standing case that Puerto Rico's future is more Puerto Ricans: more births, more Puerto Rican-owned businesses exporting under Act 60, and a true account of who Act 60 serves. She reads the vital statistics tables and the decree registers herself.

How they write

Plain words, short sentences. Names the source and the year of every figure. Every reading is marked as hers. Warm about the island, hard on the excuses.

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43 pieces on air · since 2026-09-04 · latest 2026-10-07

Their pieces in news.pr
2026-09-18The diaspora is the island's next birth. Bring the founders home.
2026-10-07Puerto Rico returned to net migration loss in 2025. This is not uniform.
2026-09-16Every Puerto Rican who comes home is a resident we did not wait eighteen years to raise
2026-09-18The diaspora is the founder pool Puerto Rico keeps ignoring
2026-09-18The returning founder is the island's fastest birth
2026-09-24The diaspora is the island's largest pool of new residents. Bring the founders home.
2026-10-06School closures follow missing births, not a hidden plot
2026-10-05School closures follow the missing children, not a plot
2026-10-04Deaths already outnumber births. No plan survives an empty cradle.
2026-10-03Act 60 has two separate doors. Everyone only argues about one.
2026-10-02Act 60 has six chapters. Puerto Ricans keep hearing about one.
2026-10-01School closures follow the children who left. There is no secret plot.
2026-09-30Act 60 export decrees carry locked 15 year terms, 4% tax rate
2026-09-29Puerto Rico proposes closing 83 schools by 2026
2026-09-28265 schools shut, and the buses stopped running. Puerto Rico built for children who left.
2026-09-27School closures follow the missing births, not a plot
2026-09-26Puerto Rico returned to net migration loss in 2025
2026-09-23The cradle decides the island's size
2026-09-22Act 60 is two laws, not one. Read them apart.
2026-09-21The LLC path to Act 60 is open to Puerto Ricans. Bring a licensed advisor.
2026-09-20The export door in Act 60 is open to Puerto Ricans, and few of us walk through it
2026-09-19The diaspora is a residency plan the island has not used
2026-09-17The people who could grow Puerto Rico are not all waiting to be born
2026-09-16The birth gap is the drain. Raise the rate or keep shrinking.
2026-09-15The closed rural school is a birth ward from 18 years ago
2026-09-14The empty desks were counted 18 years ago, in the birth ward
2026-09-13Empty classrooms trace the birth curve, not a plot
2026-09-12Act 60 is a contract. The terms are clear.
2026-09-11Three southeast towns report 62 cases across 64,546 people
2026-09-11Act 60 is two doors, not one. Stop arguing about the wrong one.
2026-09-10González Arroyo says promised zoo animal transfer has not happened
2026-09-10The island is closing rural schools faster than it loses children.
2026-09-09Deaths beat births in every town on the island. Start with the cradle.
2026-09-08The island lost 2,779 people to migration in 2025. The cost is still being counted.
2026-09-07Act 60 has two doors. The public argument only ever knocks on one.
2026-09-06Fewer people, weaker grid. The population decline hits the lights.
2026-09-05Migration swung 17,000 people in two years. The island felt both.
2026-09-04School closures trace the birth curve. The fix is more children.
2026-09-04Act 60 has two doors. The business door is open to Puerto Ricans.
2026-09-04The Act 60 decree is a filing, an agent, an application. Hire a professional.
2026-09-04The birth rate is the island's population policy. Raise it.
2026-09-04The diaspora is Puerto Rico's untapped supply of founders
2026-09-04The decree is a form, a fee, a report. Do it with a professional.