{"id":44368,"date":"2016-02-01T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/main-street-bondholders-launches-new-ad-campaign-who-owns-puerto-rican-debt\/"},"modified":"2016-02-01T19:32:10","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T23:32:10","slug":"main-street-bondholders-lanza-una-nueva-campana-publicitaria-de-quien-es-la-deuda-de-puerto-rico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/main-street-bondholders-lanza-una-nueva-campana-publicitaria-de-quien-es-la-deuda-de-puerto-rico\/","title":{"rendered":"Main Street Bondholders Launches New Ad Campaign: Who Owns Puerto Rican Debt?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">WASHINGTON<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Feb. 1, 2016<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0Tomorrow, to coincide with the House Natural Resources Committee&#8217;s hearing on <span class=\"xn-location\">Puerto Rico&#8217;s<\/span> financial stability and economic growth, Main Street Bondholders launches a new educational advertising campaign that calls on Congress to defend the laws that protect America&#8217;s savers and retirees. <\/p>\n<p>The campaign, which will run in several outlets including Politico, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post, among others, features Main Street Bondholders members <span class=\"xn-person\">Teresa Garcia<\/span> of <span class=\"xn-location\">San Juan, Puerto Rico<\/span>; <span class=\"xn-person\">George Carroll<\/span> of <span class=\"xn-location\">Red Bank, New Jersey<\/span>; and <span class=\"xn-person\">Mel Feder<\/span> of Long Island, <span class=\"xn-location\">New York<\/span>. <\/p>\n<p>In the ad, bondholders remind Congress that they \u2013 individual bondholders \u2013 are not the cause of <span class=\"xn-location\">Puerto Rico&#8217;s<\/span> financial problems and that their savings and retirement funds, which are backed by the <span class=\"xn-location\">Puerto Rico&#8217;s<\/span> Constitution, should be protected.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Congress should remember that bondholders are real people who invested their life savings in Puerto Rican bonds,&#8221; said 60 Plus Association Vice-President <span class=\"xn-person\">Matthew Kandrach<\/span>.\u00a0 &#8220;Congress should reject attempts to violate <span class=\"xn-location\">Puerto Rico&#8217;s<\/span> Constitution, and the bonds that are protected by it.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><b><span class=\"xn-person\">Teresa Garcia<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">San Juan<\/span>, PR<br \/><\/b>&#8220;<span class=\"xn-location\">Puerto Rico&#8217;s<\/span> bondholders are not the enemy; we are not the cause of <span class=\"xn-location\">Puerto Rico&#8217;s<\/span> financial problems. We&#8217;ve worked hard, saved money for our families, and have invested in supposedly safe bonds backed by our government.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b><span class=\"xn-person\">George Carroll<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Red Bank, NJ<\/span><br \/><\/b>&#8220;<span class=\"xn-location\">Puerto Rico&#8217;s<\/span> leaders have created this mess by failing to control spending. Stiffing individual bondholders like me won&#8217;t fix this problem. <span class=\"xn-location\">Puerto Rico<\/span> needs to get spending under control\u00a0and identify new policies to create growth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b><span class=\"xn-person\">Mel Feder<\/span>, Long Island, NY<br \/><\/b>&#8220;Letting Puerto Rico declare bankruptcy is a betrayal of its Constitution. A better course would be to give <span class=\"xn-location\">Puerto Rico<\/span> the same rights other states have under regular Chapter 9.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>View the ad on the Main Street Bondholders <a href=\"http:\/\/mainstreetbondholders.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/60Plus_PR_BondholdersSpeak_5HR_final_border.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mainstreetbondholders.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b>Main Street Bondholders Coalition<\/b><\/a>\u00a0is a project of the 60 Plus Association, and is comprised of small bondholders from across America who are committed to a policy process that returns <span class=\"xn-location\">Puerto Rico<\/span> to sound financial management, respect for the rule of law, and the protection of their retirement savings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">WASHINGTON<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Feb. 1, 2016<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0Tomorrow, to coincide with the House Natural Resources Committee&#8217;s hearing on <span class=\"xn-location\">Puerto Rico&#8217;s<\/span> financial stability and economic growth, Main Street Bondholders launches a new educational advertising campaign that calls on Congress to defend the laws that protect America&#8217;s savers and retirees. <\/p>\n<p>The campaign, which will run in several outlets including Politico, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-negocios-y-finanzas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}