Times Topics: Puerto Rico

• Times Topics: Puerto Rico

  Local news and multimedia about Puerto Rico, including breaking news and archival articles published in The New York Times.
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  • Puerto Rico Traces Decline in Prospects to Inclusion in the Baseball ...

    After decades of populating major league rosters with All-Stars at every position, Puerto Rico had only 20 players on opening day rosters last ...January 17, 2012 - By JORGE CASTILLO - Sports / Baseball

• Ruth Fernández, 92, Puerto Rican Singer and Senator, Dies ...

  Ms. Fernández, “the soul of Puerto Rico made song,” had a repertory ranging from fiery Latin music to spirituals; she also served in the Puerto ...January 14, 2012 - By DENNIS HEVESI

• 50 Charged With Selling Identities of Puerto Ricans to Illegal ...

  Fifty people have been accused of conspiring to sell the identities of hundreds of Puerto Ricans to illegal immigrants on the American mainland.January 12, 2012 - By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - U.S.

• ‘Testimonios,’ Popular Arts at El Museo del Barrio

  18 hours ago ... It reminds us that the museum — founded in 1969 by a group of Puerto Rican artists, teachers and activists in the barrio of East Harlem — was ...February 10, 2012 - By ROBERTA SMITH

• Stones, Chieftains, Beach Boys and El Gran Combo Turn 50

  6 days ago ... And for El Gran Combo, staying put while many fellow Puerto Rican musicians had moved to New York, it meant a rapidly modernizing island, ...February 5, 2012 - By BEN RATLIFF

• A Widow in Need After Violence, Fire and a Son’s Death

  15 hours ago ... Ms. Rivera, who came to New York from Puerto Rico with her husband ... Family photographs from Puerto Rico were destroyed, Ms. Rivera said. ...February 10, 2012 - By ANASTASIA ECONOMIDES
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  • Slide Show: Battling Baseball's Decline in Puerto Rico - Slide Show

    While the winter league proceeds with only four teams, hopes for the sport's future rest in part on a baseball academy and school for young ...January 16, 2012 - Sports

• The Saxophonist Miguel Zenón at Montclair State

  2 days ago ... Mr. Zenón was born and raised in Puerto Rico, and usually his bigger thoughts have arrived in the form of roots-minded albums, like his three ...February 8, 2012 - By BEN RATLIFF

• Seeking Calm in Themselves and on the Street

  3 hours ago ... They belong to Asociación Ñeta, which started in the prisons of Puerto Rico in 1970. Critics and law enforcement authorities consider it a gang, ...February 10, 2012 - City Room

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