You have a wonderful blog started here, and this is the most important issue you have discussed. Perhaps most troubling is the tendency for Puerto Rican women to make false allegations in the workplace and in the courtroom when they can’t get their way.

Homosexuality is not only a fashionable trend, but it is exploding due to this misandric culture on the island. Young men are now even taking on the “If I can’t beat them, join them” approach. Perhaps it is the social debt of the era of machismo, but whatever the case, it is not fair. I’ve noticed that Puerto Rican men are browbeaten by women and feminism on the island. There is a real problem here, and laws like Ley 54 are the reason why. In all of my travels, I have never seen a population of women as legally favored as in Puerto Rico. It does of course open an entire discussion of the question of civil law in Puerto Rico and how it is applied in cases between men and women, but that is a discussion for another day. Then maybe the police can focus on the real cases of abuse and protect people who are really being hurt. If that change is implemented you will see a dramatic reduction in the number of alleged acts of abuse. (the same would apply to men who make false allegations). If no evidence of abuse is found the woman should face a trial for false police reports and serve the maximum sentence automatically. If a woman accuses a man of assault under law 54 BOTH should be immediately arrested. Whether convicted or not under the law the accusation alone tarnishes a mans reputation and gives the woman unfair advantage in civil court in cases of divorce. He pleads, and begs the cops and he goes to jail anyway. A couple going through a divorce and the woman calls the cops because the man won’t do what she wants him to do and she makes an accusation. You have seen it, I have seen it, we have all heard the stories. So what has the law done? It has given women the absolute power to jail any man based on a verbal accusation alone with no physical proof what so ever. The right by allegation alone – to have any man arrested for spousal abuse.Ĭuriously enough, there are no statistics to indicate that the law has, in any way shape or form reduced the number of women assaulted by their husbands, nor has it reduced the number of women killed by a lover.

Ley 54 – was heralded as a great step forward in women’s rights.

Enmiendas ley 54 violencia domestica