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Bill Penalizes Use Of The American Flag In The Absence Of A Puerto Rican Flag
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A second question on the same ballot asked whether voters preferred to see Puerto Rico become a U.S. state, an independent country, or a freely associated state in a close alliance with the United States. Some 61 percent of those who answered the ...
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Bill Penalizes Use Of The American Flag In The Absence Of A Puerto Rican Flag
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Puerto Rico's Brain Drain Problem - Politic365
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Puerto Rico's Brain Drain Problem
Politic365 Puerto Rico has a massive drainage problem. Close to 176,000 Boricuas left the Island from 2005 to 2010. In 2011 alone, Puerto Rico lost 76,000 citizens, of which 21,611 landed in Florida. An Island that boasted close to four million inhabitants in ... |
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Puerto Rico to have new hate crime laws to protect gays -
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Puerto Rico to have new hate crime laws to protect gays
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Puerto Rico's LGBT community may be a step closer to being protected from killings, assaults …
Puerto Rico to have new hate crime laws to protect gays - Gay Star News
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Puerto Rico to have new hate crime laws to protect gays
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Puerto Rico's LGBT community may be a step closer to being protected from killings, assaults …
Puerto Rico to have new hate crime laws to protect gays - Gay Star News
Puerto Rico to have new hate crime laws to protect gays
Outgoing Secretary of Justice promises new rules and new Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla pledges to tackle anti-gay violence
Puerto Rico’s LGBT community may be a step closer to being protected from killings, assaults and other hate crimes.
The departing Secretary of Justice, Guillermo Somoza has said new rules would be put in place for hate crimes and said these result from meetings with LGBT groups in recent years.
At least 18 members of the gay, bi and trans community were murdered in 2010 and 2011 alone on the archipelago that is a territory but not a state of the US.
The new rules proposed by Somoza will define what counts as a hate crime and tell investigators how to identify evidence.
But Pedro Julio Serrano, from the US-based National Gay and Lesbian Task Force said outgoing Governor Luis Fortuño should have acted before and this was ‘too little, too late’.
‘We’ve been trying to get this protocol in place for over three years and finally, in the last month of their tenure, they finally unveil it,’ Serrano said.
But the greater hope of change stem not from the last-minute actions of the departing Fortuño administration but from his successor.
Governor-elect Alejandro Garcia Padilla beat Fortuño in the elections in November and has pleged to combat anti-LGBT violence in his coming term.
He will be sworn in on 2 January.
Speaking before the election Padilla promised the LGBT community to fight injustices. And he even paraphrased Harvey Milk, the first openly gay official in the US – whose life and death were made into the biopic Milk.
Speaking in Spanish he said: ‘My name is Alejandro Garcia Padilla. And I'm here to recruit you.’
The departing Secretary of Justice, Guillermo Somoza has said new rules would be put in place for hate crimes and said these result from meetings with LGBT groups in recent years.
At least 18 members of the gay, bi and trans community were murdered in 2010 and 2011 alone on the archipelago that is a territory but not a state of the US.
The new rules proposed by Somoza will define what counts as a hate crime and tell investigators how to identify evidence.
But Pedro Julio Serrano, from the US-based National Gay and Lesbian Task Force said outgoing Governor Luis Fortuño should have acted before and this was ‘too little, too late’.
‘We’ve been trying to get this protocol in place for over three years and finally, in the last month of their tenure, they finally unveil it,’ Serrano said.
But the greater hope of change stem not from the last-minute actions of the departing Fortuño administration but from his successor.
Governor-elect Alejandro Garcia Padilla beat Fortuño in the elections in November and has pleged to combat anti-LGBT violence in his coming term.
He will be sworn in on 2 January.
Speaking before the election Padilla promised the LGBT community to fight injustices. And he even paraphrased Harvey Milk, the first openly gay official in the US – whose life and death were made into the biopic Milk.
Speaking in Spanish he said: ‘My name is Alejandro Garcia Padilla. And I'm here to recruit you.’
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UPR to eliminate $800 per student fee
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UPR to eliminate $800 per student fee
The University of Puerto Rico will eliminate an $800 per student fee that had sp ...
UPR to eliminate $800 per student fee
The University of Puerto Rico will eliminate an $800 per student fee that had sp ... |
Anita role in West Side Story a joy for Puerto Rico native - NWAOnline (subscription)
 NWAOnline (subscription) | Anita role in West Side Story a joy for Puerto Rico native NWAOnline (subscription) Anita role in West Side Story a joy for Puerto Rico native. By Eric E. Harrison. Posted: January 27, 2013 at 2:28 a.m.. Michelle Alves (center) plays Anita in the touring company of West Side Story, onstage Tuesday-Thursday at Little Rock's Robinson ... |
U. of Puerto Rico to Eliminate $800 Fee That Sparked Protests - Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) (blog)
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 WLTX.com | U. of Puerto Rico to Eliminate $800 Fee That Sparked Protests Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) (blog) Two years ago, protests over a tuition surcharge at the University of Puerto Rico turned violent, leading the police to take over the campus and prompting the resignation of the president. The Associated Press reported on Saturday that the university's ... Puerto Rico's largest public university to drop $800 fee that had sparked ...Fox News New boardwalk planned for Puerto Rico's Old San JuanWindsor Star all 4 news articles » |
