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Puerto Rico Governor Luis Fortuño Signs New Penal Code into EffectCaribbean JournalPuerto Rico now has a new Penal Code, following a signing ceremony by Governor Luis Fortuño. “Today we make history, by offering greater protection and justice to victims of crime and setting higher, fixed penalties for the most dangerous criminals who ...
Elevated Risk Seen in Puerto Rico Muni Bonds - Barron's (blog) - Monday, July 30, 2012
Puerto Rico Governor Luis Fortuño Signs New Penal Code into Effect - Caribbean Journal - Monday, July 30, 2012
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PASOS CONTRA UNA CRISIS ALIMENTARIA
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PASOS CONTRA UNA CRISIS ALIMENTARIA
Es un hecho que la sequía que azota grandes zonas agrícolas en Estados Unidos afectará los precios de las carnes, granos y cereales, algo que golpeará la economía y los bolsillos puertorriqueños, por lo que tanto el Gobierno como el País deben tomar urgentes previsiones para afrontar el nada halagador momento.Ojo por ojo
Huáscar Robles CarrasquilloLa masacre de Aurora, Colorado, ofrece varias lecciones. Las AK-47 son para soldados (palabras de Obama), la regulación de armas en Estados Unidos, un chiste y la cantidad de municLa campaña electoral
ISMAEL TORRESDurante varias semanas he tratado de auscultar con la gente cuáles, a su juicio, serán o deben ser los temas más importante de esta campaña electoral que no acaba de comenzar.Hay cMenos perros, más pulgas
WILDA RODRÍGUEZLa epidemia de pulgas, insaciables de poder y dinero público, no se vence eliminando unos cuantos perros. Se multiplicarán con mayor avaricia en los que queden. Ese es precisamente
La propuesta enmienda constitucional para limitar el derecho absoluto a la fianza parte de la premisa que el acusado es culpable; ese no es nuestro sistema legal. En Puerto Rico el acusado es inocente hasta que se pruebe su culpabilidad más allá de una duda razonable.
De otra parte, al proponerse esta medida no se presentó ningún estudio o investigación que evidenciara de forma alguna que la enmienda va a ayudar a controlar la criminalidad.
Más relevante a la situación fue la admisión por el superintendente de la Policía, Héctor Pesquera, que la abrumadora mayoría de los crímenes no se resuelve porque, en gran medida, muchos policías no están capacitados para hacer investigaciones y trabajar con la evidencia. (Que mejor ejemplo que el caso de Lorenzo González).
En otras palabras, en Puerto Rico, el que la hace, no la paga. Esto es lo que hay que cambiar.
Claramente, en este caso el gobernador Luis Fortuño cumple plenamente con lo que Ernest Benn escribió sobre la política:
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy”. (La política es el arte de buscar un problema, encontrarlo aunque no exista, diagnosticarlo incorrectamente y aplicar la solución equivocada.)
Esto, simplemente, es incompetencia.
Prof. Armando J. Martí
Trujillo Alto
De otra parte, al proponerse esta medida no se presentó ningún estudio o investigación que evidenciara de forma alguna que la enmienda va a ayudar a controlar la criminalidad.
Más relevante a la situación fue la admisión por el superintendente de la Policía, Héctor Pesquera, que la abrumadora mayoría de los crímenes no se resuelve porque, en gran medida, muchos policías no están capacitados para hacer investigaciones y trabajar con la evidencia. (Que mejor ejemplo que el caso de Lorenzo González).
En otras palabras, en Puerto Rico, el que la hace, no la paga. Esto es lo que hay que cambiar.
Claramente, en este caso el gobernador Luis Fortuño cumple plenamente con lo que Ernest Benn escribió sobre la política:
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy”. (La política es el arte de buscar un problema, encontrarlo aunque no exista, diagnosticarlo incorrectamente y aplicar la solución equivocada.)
Esto, simplemente, es incompetencia.
Prof. Armando J. Martí
Trujillo Alto
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¿Cómo crees que fue manejado por los federales el operativo en Plaza Guaynabo?
| Bien, porque ningún inocente sufrió daños. | |
| Mal, porque de todos modos expuso al peligro a muchos ciudadanos. | |
| Nunca debió darse ese tipo de operativo en un lugar concurrido. |
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The Morality of Migration
By SEYLA BENHABIB
In announcing his executive order on June 15 that undocumented migrant youths who meet certain conditions would no longer be deported, President Obama said that "It was the right thing to do." What he did not say was whether he meant "the right thing" legally or morally.
Obviously, he considered the order to be legal, even though this invocation of presidential power drew strong criticism from many, including Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. But the president's grounds for believing it moral were much less clear.
This should come as no surprise: the morality and politics of migration are among the most divisive issues in much of the world. In the United States, discussions of immigration flow seamlessly into matters of national security, employment levels, the health of the American economy, and threats to a presumptive American national identity and way of life. Much the same is true in Europe. Not a week goes by without a story of refugees from Africa or Asia perishing while trying to arrive at the shores of the European Union.
Nor are such developments restricted to the resource-rich countries of the Northern Hemisphere. The United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Singapore, Israel and Jordan are countries with the highest percentage share of migrants among their total population, while the United States, the Russian Federation, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Canada and France lead in the actual number of international migrants. Migrations are now global, challenging many societies in many parts of the world.
Whereas from 1910 to 2012, the world's population increased slightly more than fourfold, from 1.6 billion to to more than 7 billion, the number of people living in countries other than their own as migrants increased nearly sevenfold, from roughly 33 million to more than 200 million.
Migrations pit two moral and legal principles, foundational to the modern state system, against each other. On one hand, the human right of individuals to move across borders whether for economic, personal or professional reasons or to seek asylum and refuge is guaranteed by Articles 13 and 14 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. On the other hand, Article 21 of the declaration recognizes a basic right to self-government, stipulating that "the will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government." Under the current regime of states, that fundamental right includes control over borders as well as determining who is to be a citizen as distinguished from a resident or an alien.
The international system straddles these dual principles but it has not been able to reconcile them. The irony of global developments is that while state sovereignty in economic, military, and technological domains is eroded and national borders have become more porous, they are still policed to keep out aliens and intruders. The migrant's body has become the symbolic site upon which such contradictions are enacted.
Why not advocate a "world without borders" then? From a moral point of view, no child deserves to be born on one side of the border rather than another, and it is deeply antithetical to our moral principles to punish individuals for what they cannot help being or doing. Punishment implies responsibility and accountability for one's actions and choices; clearly, children who through their parents' choices end up on one side of the border rather than another cannot be penalized for these choices.
A strong advocate of the right to self-government might retort that rewarding certain children for the wrongs committed by their parents, in this case illegal immigration, by legalizing undocumented youths is illogical as well as immoral and that "the right thing to do" would be to deport all undocumented migrants - parents and children alike. Apart from the sheer impracticality of this solution, its advocates seem to consider undocumented "original entry" into a country as the analog of "original sin" that no amount of subsequent behavior and atonement can alter.
But such punitive rigor unfairly conflates the messy and often inadvertent reasons that lead one to become an undocumented migrant with no criminal intent to break the law.
If conditions in a person's native country so endanger his life and well-being and he becomes willing to risk illegality in order to survive, his right to survival, from a moral point of view, carries as much weight as does the new country's claim to control borders against migrants. Immanuel Kant, therefore, called the moral claim to seek refuge or respite in the lands of another, a "universal right of hospitality," provided that the intentions of the foreigner upon arriving on foreign lands were peaceful. Such a right, he argued, belonged to each human being placed on this planet who had to share the earth with others.
Even though morally the right to hospitality is an individual right, the socioeconomic and cultural causes of migrations are for the most part collective. Migrations occur because of economic, environmental, cultural and historical "push" and "pull" factors. "We are here," say migrants, "because in effect you were there." "We did not cross the border; the border crossed us."
We do have special obligations to our neighbors, as opposed to moral obligations to humanity at large, if, for example, our economy has devastated theirs; if our industrial output has led to environmental harm or if our drug dependency has encouraged the formation of transnational drug cartels.
These claims of interdependence require a third moral principle - in addition to the right of universal hospitality and the right to self-government - to be brought into consideration: associative obligations among peoples arising through historical factors.
States cannot ignore such associative obligations. Migration policies, though they are often couched in nation-centric terms, always have transnational causes and consequences. It is impossible to address Mexican migration into the United States, for example, without considering the decades-long dependency of the rich California agricultural fields upon the often undocumented and unorganized labor of Mexican workers, some of whose children have now grown up to become "Dreamers" (so named after the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act introduced to Congress in 2001). Among the three million students who graduate from United States high schools, 65,000 are undocumented.
The United States owes these young people a special duty of hospitality, not only because we, as a society, have benefited from the circumstances under which their parents entered this country, but also because they have formed strong affiliations with this society through being our friends, students, neighbors and coworkers. In a liberal-democratic society the path to citizenship must follow along these associative ties through which an individual shows him or herself to be capable and worthy of citizenship.
Migratory movements are sites of imperfect justice in that they bring into play the individual right to freedom of movement, the universal right to hospitality and the right of collectives to self-government as well as specific associative moral obligations. These rights cannot always be easily reconciled. Furthermore, international law does not as yet recognize a "human right to citizenship" for migrants, and considers this a sovereign prerogative of individual states. Nonetheless, the responsible politician is the one who acts with a lucid understanding of the necessity to balance these principles rather than giving in to a punitive rigorism that would deny, in Thomas Jefferson's words, "the right which nature has given to all men of departing from [and I would add, from joining with] the country in which choice, not chance has placed them" (1774).
Whether or not President Obama considered all these moral aspects of the matter, his handling of this issue shows that he acted as a "responsible politician," and not opportunistically as some of his critics charged. It was "the right thing to do."
Seyla Benhabib is the Eugene Meyer professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University. She is the author of "Dignity in Adversity. Human Rights in Troubled Times" (2012).
Obviously, he considered the order to be legal, even though this invocation of presidential power drew strong criticism from many, including Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. But the president's grounds for believing it moral were much less clear.
This should come as no surprise: the morality and politics of migration are among the most divisive issues in much of the world. In the United States, discussions of immigration flow seamlessly into matters of national security, employment levels, the health of the American economy, and threats to a presumptive American national identity and way of life. Much the same is true in Europe. Not a week goes by without a story of refugees from Africa or Asia perishing while trying to arrive at the shores of the European Union.
Nor are such developments restricted to the resource-rich countries of the Northern Hemisphere. The United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Singapore, Israel and Jordan are countries with the highest percentage share of migrants among their total population, while the United States, the Russian Federation, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Canada and France lead in the actual number of international migrants. Migrations are now global, challenging many societies in many parts of the world.
Whereas from 1910 to 2012, the world's population increased slightly more than fourfold, from 1.6 billion to to more than 7 billion, the number of people living in countries other than their own as migrants increased nearly sevenfold, from roughly 33 million to more than 200 million.
Migrations pit two moral and legal principles, foundational to the modern state system, against each other. On one hand, the human right of individuals to move across borders whether for economic, personal or professional reasons or to seek asylum and refuge is guaranteed by Articles 13 and 14 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. On the other hand, Article 21 of the declaration recognizes a basic right to self-government, stipulating that "the will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government." Under the current regime of states, that fundamental right includes control over borders as well as determining who is to be a citizen as distinguished from a resident or an alien.
The international system straddles these dual principles but it has not been able to reconcile them. The irony of global developments is that while state sovereignty in economic, military, and technological domains is eroded and national borders have become more porous, they are still policed to keep out aliens and intruders. The migrant's body has become the symbolic site upon which such contradictions are enacted.
Why not advocate a "world without borders" then? From a moral point of view, no child deserves to be born on one side of the border rather than another, and it is deeply antithetical to our moral principles to punish individuals for what they cannot help being or doing. Punishment implies responsibility and accountability for one's actions and choices; clearly, children who through their parents' choices end up on one side of the border rather than another cannot be penalized for these choices.
A strong advocate of the right to self-government might retort that rewarding certain children for the wrongs committed by their parents, in this case illegal immigration, by legalizing undocumented youths is illogical as well as immoral and that "the right thing to do" would be to deport all undocumented migrants - parents and children alike. Apart from the sheer impracticality of this solution, its advocates seem to consider undocumented "original entry" into a country as the analog of "original sin" that no amount of subsequent behavior and atonement can alter.
But such punitive rigor unfairly conflates the messy and often inadvertent reasons that lead one to become an undocumented migrant with no criminal intent to break the law.
If conditions in a person's native country so endanger his life and well-being and he becomes willing to risk illegality in order to survive, his right to survival, from a moral point of view, carries as much weight as does the new country's claim to control borders against migrants. Immanuel Kant, therefore, called the moral claim to seek refuge or respite in the lands of another, a "universal right of hospitality," provided that the intentions of the foreigner upon arriving on foreign lands were peaceful. Such a right, he argued, belonged to each human being placed on this planet who had to share the earth with others.
Even though morally the right to hospitality is an individual right, the socioeconomic and cultural causes of migrations are for the most part collective. Migrations occur because of economic, environmental, cultural and historical "push" and "pull" factors. "We are here," say migrants, "because in effect you were there." "We did not cross the border; the border crossed us."
We do have special obligations to our neighbors, as opposed to moral obligations to humanity at large, if, for example, our economy has devastated theirs; if our industrial output has led to environmental harm or if our drug dependency has encouraged the formation of transnational drug cartels.
These claims of interdependence require a third moral principle - in addition to the right of universal hospitality and the right to self-government - to be brought into consideration: associative obligations among peoples arising through historical factors.
States cannot ignore such associative obligations. Migration policies, though they are often couched in nation-centric terms, always have transnational causes and consequences. It is impossible to address Mexican migration into the United States, for example, without considering the decades-long dependency of the rich California agricultural fields upon the often undocumented and unorganized labor of Mexican workers, some of whose children have now grown up to become "Dreamers" (so named after the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act introduced to Congress in 2001). Among the three million students who graduate from United States high schools, 65,000 are undocumented.
The United States owes these young people a special duty of hospitality, not only because we, as a society, have benefited from the circumstances under which their parents entered this country, but also because they have formed strong affiliations with this society through being our friends, students, neighbors and coworkers. In a liberal-democratic society the path to citizenship must follow along these associative ties through which an individual shows him or herself to be capable and worthy of citizenship.
Migratory movements are sites of imperfect justice in that they bring into play the individual right to freedom of movement, the universal right to hospitality and the right of collectives to self-government as well as specific associative moral obligations. These rights cannot always be easily reconciled. Furthermore, international law does not as yet recognize a "human right to citizenship" for migrants, and considers this a sovereign prerogative of individual states. Nonetheless, the responsible politician is the one who acts with a lucid understanding of the necessity to balance these principles rather than giving in to a punitive rigorism that would deny, in Thomas Jefferson's words, "the right which nature has given to all men of departing from [and I would add, from joining with] the country in which choice, not chance has placed them" (1774).
Whether or not President Obama considered all these moral aspects of the matter, his handling of this issue shows that he acted as a "responsible politician," and not opportunistically as some of his critics charged. It was "the right thing to do."
Seyla Benhabib is the Eugene Meyer professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University. She is the author of "Dignity in Adversity. Human Rights in Troubled Times" (2012).
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/stone-immigration/?ref=global-home&pagewanted=print
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Puerto Rico moves to save legal cockfights
CBS News Puerto Rico moves to save legal cockfights. SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Each man clutched a wriggling knapsack and stood in line, anxious to have every gamecock weighed and outfitted with spurs for a match at one of Puerto Rico's largest cockfighting clubs. Puerto Rico Battles to Keep Cockfighting ProfitableFox News Correction: Puerto Rico-Illegal Cockfights StoryABC News Puerto Rico moves to save legal cockfights, as matches go underground amid ...Washington Post all 107 news articles » |
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Univision Apologizes for Wishing Puerto Rico a Happy Independence Day
Fox News Univision had a major "whoops!" moment when it ran an ad wishing Puerto Rico a happy independence day. The largest Spanish-language media company in the United States recognized its mistake and issued a next-day apology both in English and in ... Univision Mistakenly Congratulates Puerto Rico's Independence (VIDEO)Huffington Post Univision apologizes to Puerto Rico for running incorrect ad on island's ...Washington Post Univision apologizes to Puerto Rico for ad slip-upThe Seattle Times all 90 news articles » |
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Bracket reveal: Puerto Rico Tip-Off
ESPN (blog) The Wolfpack have rightfully received preseason publicity as a potential ACC champ, but a flameout in Puerto Rico will fuel the narrative that they're not ready for primetime. ... The field in this event may not seem filled with NCAA-bound teams, but ... Vols Open Puerto Rico Tip-Off Against UNC AshevilleThe Chattanoogan Openers for North Carolina in Maui, NC State in Puerto Rico made officialFayetteville Observer (blog) Puerto Rico Tip-Off Bracket ReleasedOklahoma State Athletics GoPSUsports.com -Greensboro News & Record (blog) -Plain Dealer all 30 news articles » |
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Olympics 2012 Boxing Results - Flyweights: Puerto Rico's Cintron, Egypt's ...
Bad Left Hook Jeyvier Cintron (Puerto Rico) def. Oteng Oteng (Botswana), 14-12: Robbery. I'd find some other word, but there isn't one. Oteng got shafted on the scores in round two, and got jobbed overall. He clearly won rounds two and three, but he now has to go home. POWER OF THE MULLETSan Antonio Express Result: Jeyvier Cintron struggles past Oteng OtengSports Mole Olympic Boxing Results - Flyweight (Part One)BoxingScene.com all 9 news articles » |
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Olympics: Puerto Rican Hurdler Focused on Running His Race
Fox News London – Puerto Rican hurdler Javier Culson, last year's world No. 2 and unbeaten this year in the 400 meters, says that while he chief rival David Greene of Britain, he is focusing on his own performance as he vies for Olympic gold at the 2012 Games ... Culson feels weight of Puerto Rican expectationReuters Culson aims to make historyThe Press Association JAVIER CULSON BURDENED BY A NATION'S HOPES AT OLYMPICSExpress.co.uk all 37 news articles » |
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Celebration of Puerto Rican Day returns to Allentown.
Allentown Morning Call Perched along the curb on folding chairs with her husband, Hector, and 2-year-old son, Michael, she laughed when asked what her favorite part of the Puerto Rican Festival and parade had been so far. "The cars going by with their doors up, that's ... Allentown's Puerto Rican festival and parade draw thousandsThe Express Times - LehighValleyLive.com Pride on parade as Vineland fest endsVineland Daily Journal Cleveland's annual three-day Latino Festival begins Friday, marking its 44th yearPlain Dealer all 9 news articles » |
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PUERTO RICO NEWS: 7/30/2012: In Obama era, have race relations improved? | PR Athletes in London - Nuevo Dia | Happy Birthday to Jose Celso Barbosa! | 7:37 AM 7/3...
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In Obama era, have race relations improved? | PR Athletes in London - Nuevo Dia | Happy Birthday to Jose Celso Barbosa! |
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El director de campaña del PPD también rechazó la imposición de un impuesto a las corporaciones foráneas
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ElNuevoDia: Persona pillada tras accidente en la PR-3 http://t.co/ycFygWvO
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ElNuevoDia: Empresario cree que le quitaron contrato por no recaudar fondos para el gobernador http://t.co/U6nKxQlW
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El director de campaña del PPD también rechazó la imposición de un impuesto a las corporaciones foráneas
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Daniel López González, un vecino de Saint Just, Carolina, era buscado como aguja en un pajar por los agentes del CIC de San Juan, después de que fuera acusado de un abusivo asesinato que ocurrió en la tarde del viernes, casi en la esquina del Paseo de Diego y la avenida Ponce de León en Río Piedras.
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La candidata popular a la alcaldía dice que también integraría deportes como balompié
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Puerto Rico parade celebrates a proud heritage
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Quotation of the Day: "We have a solemn duty and a moral imperative to deny Iran’s leaders the means to follow through on their malevolent intentions. We must not delude ourselves into thinking that containment is an option." – Mitt Romney, speaking in Jerusalem during a seven-day overseas tour.
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Mitt Romney adopted the language of Israel’s leaders, who say Tehran must not even obtain the capability to build a nuclear weapon, a harder position than the United States has taken.
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FRIDAY JULY 27, 2012
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July 27th 2012
Happy Birthday to Jose Celso Barbosa!
In 1899, Jose Celso Barbosa and a group of supporters founded Puerto Rico’s first political party dedicated to promoting statehood with the United States. At ... Read more...
Puerto Rico: A Proud Tradition of Military Service
On July 18, 2012, Sgt. Jose J. Reyes, 24, of San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico, sacrificed his life for his country in Afghanistan when a vehicle he ... Read more...The Lessons of Hawaii and Alaska
The big news today in partisan, gridlocked Washington is that Republican Congressman Don Young of Alaska has endorsed Democratic Representative Mazie Hirono of Hawaii in ... Read more...
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No consensus among Americans on race relations in Obama era
The Daily Star The Daily Star ... Jose Lozano, who is Hispanic by way of Puerto Rico, believes prejudice is emerging from the shadows. “Now the racism is coming out,” he says. .... Lochte and Sun shine in qualifying, Adlington nearly misses out. July 30, 2012 01:14 ... |
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| In Obama era, have race relations improved? San Jose Mercury News Jose Lozano, who is Hispanic by way of Puerto Rico, believes prejudice is emerging from the shadows. "Now the racism is coming out," he says. In the afterglow of Barack Obama's historic victory, most people in the United States believed that race ... |
In Obama era, have race relations improved?
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In Obama era, have race relations improved?PHILADELPHIA — Ask Americans how race relations have changed under their first b ...
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*Puerto Rico's* debt overload | MuniLand
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If you own bonds issued by the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or one of its public entities, you need to read the latest report from Alan Schankel of Janney Montgomery Scott.
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The Google Play Store appears to be down for users in Puerto Rico. A thread over at the Android section of the Google Code site has received lots of responses from people in Puerto Rico confirming the issue. The problem is ...
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Lunes 30 de julio de 2012 Disparar fue necesario Director interino del ICE explica la balacera con presuntos narcotraficantes en Guaynabo. Fotos y vídeo Imputado el Comité Fortuño Empresario cree que le quitaron contrato por no recaudar fondos para el gobernador En pie una investigación paralela La familia de Casellas contrata a ex agentes federales.
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 Disparar fue “necesario”Director interino del ICE explica la balacera con presuntos narcotraficantes en Guaynabo. Fotos y vídeo Imputado el Comité FortuñoEmpresario cree que le quitaron contrato por no recaudar fondos para el gobernador En pie una investigación paralelaLa familia de Casellas contrata a ex agentes federales. Félix Verdejo: ‘‘Me sentí fuerte en el ring’’Fotos y vídeos Quiero empeñar el carroPodría traer más problemas que soluciones A la caza del evasor contributivoHacienda investiga cientos de casos
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For language, the result is the rise of a new language–Spanglish, one that Yale Professor Roberto González Echevarría correctly notes is as diverse as the U.S. Latino community. The version spoken in Miami among Cuban-Americans is different than that in New York City among Puerto-Ricans and Dominican-Americans which differs from how Chicanos in the Southwest express themselves. Click on the video to hear our interview conducted a year and a half ago ...
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El presidente de la Coordinadora Estatal de las Asociaciones Solidarias con el Sahara (CEAS), José Taboada, anunció hoy que 20 cooperantes viajarán el próximo día 7 a los campamentos de refugiados, pese a que el Gobierno español ha advertido de que podían ser objetivo de ataques terroristas.
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It is understood the Black Cats have made a formal offer for the 25-year-old Scotland international after months of speculation over his future.
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The 29-year-old midfielder becomes the third Ivorian to head through the exits at Sevilla this summer, following the departures of Didier Zokora and Arouna Kone.
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El candidato republicano a la Presidencia de EEUU, Mitt Romney, inicia hoy en Polonia una visita de dos días, que arrancará esta tarde en la ciudad de Gdansk, donde se reunirá con el primer ministro polaco, Donald Tusk, y con el expresidente polaco y Premio Nobel de la Paz Lech Walesa.
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Each day we'll bring you the very latest tabloid rumors as the biggest clubs around splash the cash to bolster their rosters.
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Sofía Vergara y el resto de su "familia televisiva" han llegado a un acuerdo con 20th Century Fox Televisión por el que su sueldo aumentará 65.000 dólares por capítulo, hasta llegar a los 150.000, y se revisará cada temporada de emisión de "Modern Family".
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El seleccionador de baloncesto croata, Jasmin Repesa, ha expulsado a Bojan Bogdanovic, exjugador del Real Madrid, debido a la falta de disciplina del joven alero.
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Un tribunal iraní destituyó a un funcionario nombrado por el gobierno del presidente Mahmud Ahmadineyad y quien había sido implicado en las muertes de prisioneros.
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La ex primera ministra ucraniana, Yulia Timoshenko, en prisión por abuso de poder, fue designada hoy cabeza de lista de la coalición Oposición Unida (OU) para las elecciones parlamentarias que se celebrarán el 28 octubre de este año.
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When Apple officially launched its latest iPad in China last week, the big crowds and long lines seen at earlier such events were absent: http://on.ft.com/MW8Pnm 
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Globetrotting on the Cheap!! Puerto Rico - June 2011 (Part 1)
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Derrame de diesel en Lago Dos Bocas afecta restaurantes
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Lunes 30.07.2012
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 “El pueblo adjudica el liderato”
Según, Ricky Roselló, su padre le enseño con sus acciones lo que es ser “un líder de calibre mundial”
 Tiembla frontera entre México y Guatemala Lancha del Lago Dos Bocas no estará disponible esta semana
La lancha se utilizará para determinar la magnitud de un derrame de diesel en ese cuerpo de agua
 
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Nuevas imagenes de la NASA revelan que las banderas de EE.UU. aún están en la Luna [FOTOS] http://ow.ly/cAd17
 New NASA photos reveal American flags planted during moon landings... ow.ly All but one of the six flags left by American astronauts remain standing, according to an analysis of the shadows they cast on the surface of the...
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Los asientos vacíos en algunos eventos de Londres 2012 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2180579/Olympics-2012-Row-row-seats--tickets-sent-foreign-VIPs-black-market.html
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Londres 2012: Cientos de boletos a dignatarios son vendidos en el 'mercado negro'. Fotos revelan estadios vacíos >> http://ow.ly/cAcC9
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Londres 2012: desaparecen las llaves del estadio de fútbol olímpico Wembley - BBC http://ow.ly/cActr
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caribnews: 12 riders freed after spending one hour stuck at the top of Six Flags' Superman roller coster in Vallejo, California. http://t.co/gRzSlgaH
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Recuerdos de los 90's!!!!!!!!!!
 Words Four Two - Star Search 1991 (video 1 of 2) Puerto Rican band Words Four Two performing "Society, Killed By Who?" in their first week in the TV show Star Search (1991). Video 1 of 2.
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Ricardo Sualaga Lozano, el chofer de la camioneta que esta mañana impactó un camión cargado con 10,000 galones gasolina y propició y voraz incendio que paralizó gran parte del flujo vehicular en la autopista 52, en Caguas, arrojó .21.3% en la prueba de alcohol, reveló esta tarde la Policía.
 Ebrio el conductor que impactó camión de gasolina en Caguas www.primerahora.com Arrojó .21.3% en la prueba de alcohol.
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Isis Zoe Perez Colon Feliciano, Happy Birthday!!!!!!!
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"Con todos estos dones, los puertorriqueños y puertorriqueñas nos sentimos orgullosos de ustedes". Así se expresó el arzobispo de San Juan, Roberto González Nieves, hoy, durante una misa que ofreció en Londres para la delegación de Puerto Rico en los Juegos Olímpicos de 2012.
 Arzobispo González Nieves ofrece misa en Londres para delegación boricua www.primerahora.com Varios miembros del equipo boricua llegaron hasta la parroquia Francis Fray, en Stratford, cerca de a Villa Olímpica para el servicio religioso.
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Se Vende iPhone 4 32gb Perfectas Condicones (Mint) iPhone estuvo dentro del cover: Otter Box todo el contrato. Precio $250.00 en PONCE. Telefono era de At&t. Se vende ya que cliente adquirio el iPhone 4s. Para mayor info, llamar a Jerry al (787) 232-3462
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Camión explotó en autopista, en Caguas en dirección a SJ. El tapón en la 52 es astronómico.
 
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Inter News Service)
 El Mercedes Benz que protagonizó una persecución vehicular de Fajardo a Luquillo estalló en llamas al chocar con la Oficina de Acción Social en Luquillo. Foto / Inter News ServiceA eso de las 9:00 a.m., unos individuos a bordo de un auto Mercedes Benz del 1999 protagonizaron una persecución vehicular, tras provocar un accidente de tránsito de carácter leve en la PR-3 donde abandonaron la escena, según el informe policíaco. Dicha persecución culminó frente al Centro Comercial Luquillo Plaza en la PR-3, donde estos impactaron con su auto la entrada de la Oficina de Acción Social de ese municipio. Se arrestaron a dos de los ocupantes del Mercedes Benz identificados como José Camarena Rodríguez, de 18 años de edad y residente en Juncos, e Isamil Bosques Torres, de 32 años y residente en Carolina. El auto donde viajaban se incendió completamente tras impactar la entrada de la referida oficina y personal del Cuerpo de Bomberos extinguieron dicho incendio. No se han estimado los daños causados, indicó la policía. También resultaron lesionados a consecuencia de la persecución vehicular, los agentes José Pérez Daza, Alina González Santana y Justino Olmedo Rivera, adscritos a la División de Patrullas de Carreteras de la Región de Fajardo, tras accidentarse en la unidad en la que viajaban. Estos recibieron asistencia médica y se encuentran en buen estado de salud. Varios efectivos en colaboración con la Unidad Aérea, realizaron una búsqueda en la zona y a eso de las 11:20 a.m., en el sector Playa Azul, en Luquillo, los agentes Israel Candelaria Vélez y Jonathan Cruz Ávila, localizaron y arrestaron al tercer ocupante y conductor del auto, identificado como Gabriel Estera Cruz, de 18 años de edad y residente en Juncos. No obstante se ha intensificado la vigilancia para dar con el paradero de una mujer que presuntamente viajaba con los jóvenes, y de la cual aún se desconoce su identidad. Durante horas de la tarde de hoy, se les estaría sometiendo cargos criminales a estos jóvenes en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia sala de Río Grande.
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Inter News Service) El secretario general del Partido Popular Democrático (PPD), Víctor Suárez, denunció hoy que el gobernador Luis Fortuño supuestamente utilizó la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica (AEE) para enriquecer a su mejor amigo, Pedro Ray Chacón.
Suárez destacó que Ray Chacón obtuvo para su compañía, Ray Engineers, 12 millones de dólares para el diseño del gasoducto, esto a pesar de que nunca había diseñado un proyecto de esta magnitud. Además, añadió que Renewable Power Group, de quien según el registro de corporaciones del Departamento de Estado Ray Chacón es incorporador y presidente, firmó dos acuerdos de compra de energía con la AEE en agosto del 2011. Los dos contratos totalizan, 37.5 millones de dólares. Esto, sumado a sus contratos por el proyecto del Gasoducto, son 50 millones de dólares, dijo Suárez. “Estamos hablando de que Fortuño Burset le regaló 50 millones a un amigo mientras la factura de la luz cada mes llega más alta, ahogando en costos a nuestros hogares y a los dueños de negocios”, expresó el Secretario en conferencia de prensa desde la sede de la colectividad en Puerta de Tierra. La denuncia de Suárez, se une a las denuncias hechas por la colectividad durante las pasadas semanas, en las cuales se trajo a la luz pública el supuesto esquema orquestado por esta administración con los “Power Purchase Agreements (PPA)” que están siendo firmados por la AEE con desarrolladores locales. “El país fue testigo de cómo José Pérez Canabal, estando en la Junta de Directores de la AEE, cabildeó para la firma de un PPA con Jonas Solar, la compañía de su socio, con quien compartía oficinas. A pesar de que Pérez Canabal renunció, este esquema de favoritismo aun continúa”, manifestó Suárez al tiempo que añadió que el propio Jerome Garffer, en su carta de renuncia, menciona los PPA que hasta el momento ya ha firmado la AEE. Suárez indicó que odo esto ocurre mientras que “actualmente la luz ahora está 72 por ciento más cara que cuando comenzó este cuatrienio “. Subrayó que los contratos de Renewable Power Group con la AEE para la compra de energía contienen una clausula que le garantiza a Ray Chacón continuar lucrándose del dinero del pueblo e incrementar sustancialmente sus ingresos por 20 años. “Esto a pesar de que cuando sus facilidades comiencen a producir energía, la compra de la misma será aun más cara”, agregó.  El secretario general del PPD, Víctor Suárez, denunció que el amigo de infancia del gobernador Luis Fortuño, Pedro Ray Chacón, ha obtenido 50 millones de dólares en contratos con la AEE. Foto / Inter News Service
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"Wil" Wheaton, Happy Birthday!!!!!!!! He is best known for his portrayals of Wesley Crusher on the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, Gordie Lachance in the film Stand by Me, Joey Trotta in Toy Soldiers and his recurring role playing himself on the sitcom, The Big Bang Theory.
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Josh Radnor is 38 Today, Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!
MiniBio: Actor: He plays "Ted Mosby" on the TV series "How I Met Your Mother" (2005->). 
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83¿Incumplimiento de contrato o presión política?
 83¿Incumplimiento de contrato o presión política? 83 ¿Incumplimiento de contrato o presión política? Familia de Pablo Casellas inicia una investigación paralela Contrata a exagentes federales para esclarecer el asesinato de Carmen Paredes. Arrestan al padre y tirotean al hijo en operativo de Guaynabo "Quiero empeñar el carro" Podría traer más problemas uqe soluciones Pocos quieren trabajar en el edificio más alto del mundo Cada acción ejecutada desencadena consecuencias. La forma correcta de afrontarlas es un proceso que comienza desde la infancia $10 millones para abonar a una deuda que data del 2005. Vídeo Familiares y amigos lloran al sargento fallecido en Afganistán. Vídeo 132 94 501 1239 Pasos contra una crisis alimentaria Es un hecho que la sequía que azota grandes zonas agrícolas en Estados Unidos afectará los precios... This post has been generated by Page2RSS
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Las sanciones económicas contra Cuba bajo la administración Obama
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San Juan, (EFE).- La pareja brasileira de Carine Morais y Rafael Barros ganó hoy el campeonato Mundial de la Salsa Open 2012, como parte del Puerto Rico.
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Book Review: Boxing: Medical Aspects - Doghouse Boxing
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The Cuban who defected and devoted his life to Irish boxing
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Haiti's Carnival of Flowers brings revellers onto the streets
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A Baptist pastor from St Ann used his sermon at yesterday’s National Independence Thanksgiving Service inside the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Kingston to blast the nation’s leaders, and charged that Jamaica is pervaded by hustlers.
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 BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Over the past couple of years, Europe has muddled through a long series of crunch moments in its debt crisis, but this September is shaping up as a "make-or-break" month as policymakers run desperately short of options to save the common currency. Crisis or no crisis, many European policymakers will take their summer holidays in August. When they return, a number of crucial events, decisions and deadlines will be waiting. "September will undoubtedly be the crunch time," one senior euro zone policymaker said. ...
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Is anti-gay marriage hate? Don't ask Rahm Emanuel - Philadelphia Daily News
Is anti-gay marriage hate? Don't ask Rahm Emanuel - Philadelphia Daily News Deseret NewsIs anti-gay marriage hate? Don't ask Rahm EmanuelPhiladelphia Daily NewsI don't believe that opposing gay marriage is automatically "hate." Some same-sex-marriage supporters see it differently, but they are throwing that word around too casually, as others do with "racist" or "socialist." Both left and right are guilty of ...Jim Henson Co., Chick-Fil-A and the gay marriage debateDeseret NewsGay Agenda in Campaign Against Chick-fil-A Not About Civil Rights?Christian PostChick-fil-A sandwiches become a political symbol against gay marriageVOXXI (blog)Destin Log -Los Angeles Times -Examiner.comall 3,238 news articles »
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2012 London Olympics Opening Ceremony! (Parody)
2012 London Olympics Opening Ceremony! (Parody) 2012 London Olympics Opening Ceremony! (Parody) Imagine if they had a Gay Olympics. FACEBOOK : facebook.com T SHIRTS : www.districtlines.com TWITTER : twitter.com SNAIL MAIL : Arielle Scarcella PO Box 280154 Brooklyn, NY 11228-154 _______________________________ CHECK OUT DAVEY : www.youtube.com JOSH : www.youtube.com HALEY STAR : www.youtube.com _______________________________ TAGS : 2012 gay olympic games olympics London comedy lgbt funny arielleishamming scissoring shooting news coverage arielle scarcella opening ceremony interviews athletes From: ArielleIsHamming Views: 7008 438 ratingsTime: 02:14 More in Comedy
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 Two men who underwent bone-marrow transplants in the U.S. are now free of the HIV virus, reports CBS News.CONTINUED » Permalink | Post a comment Read more articles at Queerty or GayCities  
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Partners, a new sitcom about architects with differing sexual orientations—mirroring the real-life relationship of its producers, Will & Grace co-creators Max Mutchnick and David Kohan—doesn’t debut on CBS until September 24. But it’s a story that’s been bubbling near the surface for decades. CONTINUED » Permalink | Post a comment Read more articles at Queerty or GayCities
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 After accepting a million-dollar bid on a 44-bedroom mansion it owns, the Diocese of Worcester, Massachusetts, is refusing to sell—because the buyers are a gay couple.According to the Worcester Telegram, the offer made by James Fairbanks and Alain Beret for Oakhurst, a dilapidated property in Whitinsville, was initially accepted. Beret and Fairbanks signed the offer, made a deposit and even paid for a home inspection. But when the broker, LiSandra Rodriguez-Pagan, emailed to say the sale had fallen through, she accidentally included an email from Monsignor Thomas Sullivan, who had written that he wanted to put the kibosh on the Oakhurst deal because there might be gay marriages there. Saints preserve us! “I just went down the hall and discussed it with the bishop,” Msgr. Sullivan wrote. “Because of the potentiality of gay marriages there, something you shared with us yesterday, we are not interested in going forward with these buyers. I think they’re shaky anyway. So, just tell them that we will not accept their revised plan and the Diocese is making new plans for the property. You find the language.”We know the Church gets to ignore all kinds of laws—workplace-discrimination bans, requirements to report sexual predators to the authorities, etc. But we’re pretty sure they can’t just skirt Massachusetts real-estate law, which prohibits discriminating against buyers based on sexual orientation. Telegram reporter Dianne Williamson contacted Father Sullivan, who claimed the cancellation “was an issue of them not having the financing. That was all.” Oh Padre, lying too? You’re making little baby Jesus weep. Beret, a former seminarian who has been with his husband for 35 years (they wed in 2004), says the Church can argue whatever it wants from the pulpit, “but they don’t have the right to chase me down with their poison.” He wasn’t looking for a battle, he added, “but for the sake of my dignity, I’m not walking away.” Considering Oakhurst was once House of Affirmation, a treatment center for pedophile priests that shuttered in amid allegations of sexual abuse and financial misconduct, the Church shouldn’t care too much if a few queers want to get married there. Permalink | 1 comment Read more articles at Queerty or GayCities
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 Fire Emblem, a fantasy role-playing game developed by Intelligent Systems, released its 11th iteration in Japan earlier this year and is slated to hit U.S. stores in 2013. CONTINUED » Permalink | Post a comment Read more articles at Queerty or GayCities
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This weekend the Olympic Games in London got off to a quirky—okay, downright bizarre—start with an opening ceremony that saw Queen Elizabeth playing a Bond girl and Mary Poppins doing battle with Lord Voldemort.
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