Some 20 students and demonstrators, including a TV journalist, were forcibly removed from the University of Puerto Rico’s Río Piedras campus gate on Barbosa Avenue by Riot Police officers Tuesday morning while demonstrating against the institution’s refusal to negotiate solutions for the fiscal crisis affecting it. During the incident, at least six students were injured, including journalist Mayra Acevedo, from Channel 6, and had to receive medical assistance. “We were demonstrating on the lane that the police had already closed to traffic in front of the gate. People trying to get into the campus had to go through the students’...
