Letters. From: Robert Mccarroll. Puerto Rico Daily Sun Editors: Are the Star's standards worthy to run the NYT's national and international news? In case you are interested. I don't feel t...
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Letters
From: Robert Mccarroll
Puerto Rico Daily Sun Editors:
Are the Star’s standards worthy to run the NYT’s national and international news?
In case you are interested. I don’t feel that the new generation of the San Juan (Puerto Rico) Star is practicing responsible and ethical journalism with their letters to the editor section.... Robert McCarroll
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Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:52 AM
To: nytdirect@nytimes.com ; voices@prdailysun.net
Cc: president@nytimes.com ; Robert Mccarroll
Subject: Fw: Are the Star’s standards worthy to run the NYT’s national and international news?
Puerto Rico Daily Sun Editors:
I don’t feel the current San Juan Star is worthy of an association with The New York Times. I suspect that the Star’s contributors, who attack in the Star my letters which only appear in the Daily Sun, all know one another and could even be encouraged by Angulo, the Star’s publisher. This behavior is way below the standards of responsible, ethical journalism. I also suspect that this tiny group of vindictive haters also use phony pen names to make it appear that more contributors to the letters to the editor are on their side. I hope the NYT‘s “powers that be” will carefully review all these attack letters in the San Juan Star. My friends tell me that they cannot believe the NYT is aware of this unethical and hateful behavior in the San Juan (Puerto Rico) Star. They suggested that I get in touch with the publisher of The New York Times and ask him to investigate.
Robert McCarroll – Carolina, Puerto Rico
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From: Robert Mccarroll
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2012 9:17 AM
To: president@nytimes.com
Cc: Robert Mccarroll
Subject: Are the Star’s standards worthy to run the NYT’s national and international news?
To: Arthur Sulzberger Jr., Chairman & Publisher -- Scott H. Heekin-Canedy, President & General Manager
Does the San Juan (Puerto Rico) Star have the same high standards as the NYT?
Are the Star’s standards worthy to run the NYT’s national and international news here in Puerto Rico?
Does the NYT’s publisher demand that a local newspaper have a high standard of journalism ethics in order to have a relationship with the NYT?
Was any careful investigation of the new San Juan Star and its publisher done before allowing the San Juan Star to run New York Times news reports and commentaries?
It is urgent that the NYT do an up-to-date investigation of the San Juan Star to determine if its meets the high ethical standards of the NYT!
I am 83 years of age. I grew up in upstate New York near Hyde Park. I personally knew Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt during my grade and high school years. At ten I met personally Franklin Roosevelt and several times later when I was around ten years of age. Mrs. Roosevelt convinced me to become a writer on newspapers or in public relations department of companies. I was a journalism minor at New York University from 1947 to 1952. One of my professors in journalism was Julius Bond then on The New York Times Editorial Board. Most important, He was my journalism idol. I have admired down through the year the extremely high standards of The New York Times. I still have this admiration for the NYT.
Also, I was one of two plaintiffs in the 2008 federal case to have bilingual ballots for Puerto Rico Elections. We won here and in the Appeals Court in Boston which refuse to accept the appeal.
The New York Times has an agreement with the new San Juan Star to allow this local newspaper to publish your national and international news reports and commentaries. I do feel the Star does not have the same high standards of the New York Times and should not be allowed to be associated with the NYT. The Star’s association with your outstanding newspaper harms the reputation of the NYT.
I urge you to do a very thorough investigation of the current Star’s local news reporting. I urge you to do a review of all the Star’s original Viewpoints – Letters to the Editor. You would be shocked to discover that over and over again the publisher of the San Juan Star allows his contributors to do highly personal attacks on contributors to the Puerto Rico Daily Sun. I have never submitted a letter to the San Juan Star, but my letters which only appear in the Puerto Rico Daily Sun are misquoted dishonestly in the Star and I am personally attacked every time I have a VOICES – letter to the editor – published in the Puerto Rico Daily Sun. They not only attack my letters but make slurs about me being old, gay and a alcoholic. (I have not drank alcohol in forty years.)
I keep asking myself why The New York Times does not demand the same high journalism standard’s that the NYT has from the San Juan Star who has an association with the NYT. I don’t think the Star is up to the same high standards in order to be associated with The New York Times.
You many want to do some kind of investigation of the publisher of the Star. Was he charge with financial fraud for making out checks knowing that these checks did not have sufficient funds? What are the facts about his closing the original San Juan Star and not paying money owed it journalists and other workers at the Star?
I know other great newspapers that are honorable members of The New York Times family of great newspapers such as the Boston Globe and the Sarasota Tribune. I had letters published in the Sarasota Tribune when I lived in Sarasota, Florida. --- Sorry! Most definitely the San Juan Star (latest new version) is in no way on the same high NYT standards.
William Robert McCarroll
Laguna Gardens – Bldg. 4 – Apt. 9G
4 Avenue Laguna – Apt. 9
Carolina, Puerto Rico oo979-6576
Cell: 787- 448 –8470
From: Robert Mccarroll
Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2012 8:18 PM
To: president@nytimes.com
Cc: Robert Mccarroll ; Upfront Yankee
Subject: Heaven & Hell At The San Juan Star by John Marino
Surfing the internet, I came across this excellent report by John Marino on the demise of the original San Juan Star and the role of its publisher Gerardo Angulo in the demise. John Marino is an outstanding journalist now working for Caribbean Business. Doug Zehr is another outstanding former Star journalist and now with Caribbean Business. The fact that all these great journalists are not with the revived San Juan Star and Angulo is its publisher makes you realize why the new San Juan Star is not in the same great journalism tradition of the original Star with its outstanding journalists. It sure ain’t like The New York Times despite the fact it publishes the NYT’s national and international news reports and commentaries. If you want example of unethical journalism read the vindictive, obsessive letters to the editior in the current Star. What is troubling is that the Star publisher allows this to happen. --- Bob
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Heaven & Hell At The San Juan Star
For almost five decades, The San Juan Star was regarded as Puerto Rico’s most reputable newspaper.
Years of mismanagement brought the once mighty paper to a close. Former Star Editor John Marino recounts the daily’s last days of agony.
ON a smoldering Saturday afternoon deep in August, I realized The San Juan Star was finished. In the building’s main hallway, graced with blown-up prints of the best photographs in the newspaper’s storied history, the hulking figures of Star publisher Gerardo Angulo and Union of Journalists, Graphic Artists and Related Occupations chief Nestor Soto stalked each other, hurling insults and threats, oblivious to everything but their mutual intransigence.
The union, known by its Spanish acronym UPAGRA, stopped work Friday night over a broken pledge to ensure sufficient bank funds so all workers could cash their checks when they were paid.
Angulo said his hands were tied until Monday when the banks opened. Soto insisted no work would be done until all checks were cashed. Angulo threatened to shutter the paper for good if it failed to publish on Monday. Soto retorted: “liar.” “Are you telling them that, Nestor?” Angulo screamed. “Your job is to protect workers’ jobs, not endanger them.” “You tell them!” Soto snapped back.
During their face-off, I stared at the worn floors and stained ceilings. For me, this building, clearly buckling under neglect, was a temple of journalism, forever tied to the rigors and satisfactions of a profession that consumed the best years of my life, but had defined it and given it purpose in the process. It was a feeling that was shared by The Star’s newsmen and newswomen, who stayed on despite the increasing certainty that its demise was drawing ever near.
“It was like the death of a friend,” says Assistant Business Editor Michelle Kantrow, of the shuttering of the publication that she joined “as a rookie” in
1995. “It was agony, week after week.
Like seeing somebody on his deathbed.
I always wondered how much longer we could go on like that.” University of Puerto Rico President Antonio García Padilla says The Star’s closing represented a big loss for Puerto Rico.
“It has made extraordinary contributions to the island and to the quality of its journalism,” he said. “This was evidenced not only by The Star’s Pulitzer Prize, but by its daily news coverage and its fostering of a public debate on important issues.” García Padilla, like several other prominent Puerto Ricans, says that as an English-language daily, The Star played an important and unique role in keeping business and government leaders, both on the island and abroad, informed on the important issues of the day. President Jimmy Carter’s top staff read it, and so did Karl Rove, President GeorgeW.
Bush’s top political strategist.
The Star was never a huge moneymaker, and finances have been tight since its inception in 1959, former newsroom executives say. But the newspaper bucked situations from huge expansions to steep cutbacks under Angulo’s reign as publisher.
While the closure may have shocked readers, things had gotten markedly worse over the past year, with signs of trouble everywhere. You did not need access to privileged information to see the ad space shrink, or know that the company was increasingly delinquent in meeting major commitments like payroll, newsprint, ink and power costs. More chilling was that checks to major suppliers as well as payroll checks had begun bouncing—the clearest sign yet that the business was in deep trouble. Bills could only be paid by certified check, and employees cashed their checks at The Star’s bank to circumvent the problem. And the newspaper—either because of press problems, newsprint shortages or union work stoppages—just did not get out some days, or got out to very few places.
The Star would not publish again until Tuesday, Aug. 22 (after Angulo deposited enough money to cover worker paychecks on that Monday). Its last edition would appear that Friday.
A Renowned Name The newspaper’s Hunter S. Thompson and William Kennedy connections kicked its closing to the Associated Press A-wire.
The Star, which opened in November 1959, won fame early through its 1961 Pulitzer Prize for editorials on Roman Catholic bishops interfering in local politics.
Kennedy, the author of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize winning novel ``Ironweed,’’ was one of its first managing editors. Thompson, who used the paper as a setting in his novel “The Rum Diary,” unsuccessfully applied to him for a job, but the rejection sparked a years-long letter writing relationship between the two renowned writers.
The Star’s coverage of the Cerro Maravilla murders, the drive against the Navy in Vieques, and its unbiased political reporting throughout the years are also seen as high water marks. It also had among the finest cultural and business sections on the island. Such reporting earned The Star a loyal following, which included the island’s most influential readership, and it instilled a fierce loyalty among ex-staffers.
“The Star was the only newspaper in Puerto Rico that put the facts together without any slant. If you read it in The Star, it was true,” says Rafael Matos, a 37-year island newspaper veteran.
“The Star represented a kind of journalism that was independent from government and political influences,” adds former managing editor Barbara LeBlanc, who ran the newsroom under Angulo until 2000. “That’s important because in Puerto Rico, the government is the biggest game in town: the biggest advertiser, the biggest supplier, the biggest everything. Political positions are so deeply etched in Puerto Rico. And The Star stood for independent and aggressive reporting that would straddle the divide and not bend to favoritism.”
A. W. Maldonado, a Star staff member at its inception, says the Englishlanguage daily’s impact was immediate And profound. “The Star was a revolution in Puerto Rico,” Maldonado says.
“It was because of William Dorvillier.
He was the absolute journalist.” Maldonado says the exacting founder, editor and publisher set high standards, which was immediately recognized by its 1961 Pulitzer Prize for a series of 20 editorials on the Catholic Church’s intrusion into the 1960 gubernatorial race.
The Star has received its knocks over the years, and been hit with charges of bias. One former newsroom executive says it was criticized when it came out with a Spanish edition while advertising executives aggressively pursued a bigger cut of government advertising during the Rosselló administration because “news coverage was seen through that prism.” But despite its ups and downs over the years, The Star was able to uphold those high standards set at the start until its very final day, according to former staffers. The Star, they say, was not only known for, but also actually marked by, balanced reporting and an attempt at fair mindedness.
Maldonado, who went on to serve as managing editor of El Mundo before founding El Reportero, says the English- language publication played to political and business leaders in San Juan,Washington and elsewhere, making it far more influential than its limited circulation, which exceeded 40,000 in its heyday. And it was still the source for White House and Congressional staffers at its demise. “The Star was it. It was the Bible,” he says.
Doug Zehr, who rose from the copy desk to business reporter and then managing editor, credits The Star with bringing “nonpartisan journalism” to the island. “Even on its worst days, The Star worked a lot harder at being fair and thorough and professional than our competitors. The Star always made an effort to put the story in context,“ he says.
Noting that tradition, Mercy Mc- Closkey, The Star’s last business editor, says: “Its loss was particularly significant two months before the elections because objective reporting was allowed to evaporate.” While editorial resources were slashed back substantially in the last few years, newsroom staff continued to lay claim to the publication’s proud tradition of impartial reporting.
“It was just loving what you did.We were the balancing act,” says Kantrow, who won three major awards in 2008 for her business reporting, including the Overseas Press Club of Puerto Rico’s Teodoro Moscoso Award for Excellence in Business Journalism. “We were allowed to be fair. It was a privilege.
I talked to my peers at other papers, and they get censored. They get told what to write. It was also our ability to analyze issues beyond the press conference.” In recent months, despite dwindling numbers and faltering equipment, the staff was dedicated to remaining a relevant news force in Puerto Rico. The complaints kept piling up: about lousy delivery, cancelled favorite comics and increased misspellings because of a depleted copy editor corps, but the fan base still sent us accolades on our reporting.
It still provided full coverage of the major news events of the day, and also delivered in-depth reporting and feature news stories on issues of top public concern.
“Despite all the handicaps, work at The Star was a heady challenge,” Mc- Closkey says. “It was great fun because we were allowed to cover the news as we saw fit. The aim in covering a story was always to tell both sides with integrity.
Even if the subject could be embarrassing for a friend of the publisher, we could go forward with the story as long as we were sure of it. It was real freedom of the press, the kind that hardly exists anymore because publishing is big business.” Casting Blame Angulo painted the closure as a breakdown in negotiations on proposed benefit and salary cuts as well as a plan to contract out some circulation to a competing newspaper.
“The union is firm in its opinion, and I’m firm in mine,” he tells the Associated Press, adding that he doubted a reopening would happen. “I am not going to subsidize the newspaper anymore.
It has to stand on its own.” Speaking after the shutdown, Angulo continued to blame the union. “The Star had been handicapped for years by the union,” he says, also chastising the “very terrible Department of Labor system, which has allowed employees to behave like you would not expect employees to behave.” Management did have genuine concerns regarding the collective bargaining agreement and legitimate complaints about productivity and accountability.
Economic realities at the end also probably justified a cut in benefits for union employees, as well as other concessions for cost savings.
The union was long seen by management as detrimental to the newspaper’s best interests. A failure in 1993 to reach a collective bargaining agreement was a major factor in the newspaper being put up for sale, according to news reports at the time.
But union leaders also say they had just cause to mistrust Angulo, and had expressed willingness to consider cuts if the publisher shared financial information with them. UPAGRA attorney Miguel Simonet Sierra said the publisher had fallen behind on pension, child support and Social Security payments after deducting them from employee paychecks. Angulo and his chief accountant discussed the closure with former management employees as if it were a bankruptcy, where creditors, including former employees, would have to each make a claim on the company’s remaining assets.
Yet, as Metro San Juan went to press, there had been no bankruptcy protection filing, despite Angulo having acknowledged in recent weeks that The Star’s debt had surged to $20 million.“ I’m not going to comment on that,” Angulo says of a possible bankruptcy filing. “The Star is closed.
It does not have any liquid assets; it owes more money than it has.” Union officials might have overplayed their hand during that final three-day shutdown, if they thought Angulo would remain open without instilling steep cutbacks. But they felt pushed into the action because employee paychecks had been bouncing all year long.
The problem was so acute, that it became a weekly ritual for employees to cash their paychecks at Westernbank branches before depositing the money in their own bank accounts.
And sometimes, employees who had waited too long were unable to cash their checks.
Employees found the experience humiliating, especially because there would only be an hour between when paychecks were distributed and the bank closed. The last minute deposits to payroll accounts, workers openly speculated, were done to avoid seizure from government agencies with which the publication had built up debts.
“That’s one mistake an employer should never make: fail to pay an employee on time,” says industrial psychologist Dr. Belchor Batista, of Management & Psychological Services in Río Piedras. “The effect is devastating and demoralizing. It’s one of the most harmful things that a company can do. It harms the employees, it harms the management, it harms the organization.
It harms everyone.” Batista also says that a company that Begins bouncing paychecks has already allowed its financial problems to fester too long. “That’s a problem that the company has to face up front and deal with ahead of time. It can’t just wait until the problem gets that bad.” But Angulo downplayed the pay issue. “There were problems, but employees were always paid.” He accused UPAGRA of using it as a red herring to harm the company for its recent attempt to increase distribution through non-union handlers and other issues. He said the union had undertaken “17 wildcat strikes” in the days leading up to the three-day shutdown that affected some aspect of the paper’s production or distribution.
“The union has been acting this way for the past year and a half,” Angulo says. “We have been cutting back for some time now to cut costs, and they have been reacting.” When he closed, Angulo stiffed most of the newspaper’s 120 employees (including 90 union workers) out of their last week’s pay, as well as accrued vacation, sick and severance payments mandated by local labor law and the union’s collective bargaining agreement.
Simonet, saying the accrued debts are a substantial sum, and that complaints and requests for arbitration have been filed at the National Labor Relations Board and the local Labor Department. Angulo responded by saying union work stoppages also caused company losses.
Show Me the Money From the time I was put in charge of the editorial department in December 2003, Angulo constantly complained that the newspaper was losing money, a lot of it, and he wanted to stop subsidizing it or shut it down. He said his other firms were supporting The Star and he was forced to invest personal funds. Other newspaper executives also said the newer properties did subsidize the newspaper in later years, often to their own financial detriment.
But it was never clear where Angulo’s money ended and The Star’s began. Funds were allegedly routinely funneled back and forth between his companies, depending on cash flow needs. The Star also is said to have covered payments for Angulo’s and his family’s personal expenses and would also provide him with cash for gas and other necessities. He always justified such payments by saying he did not collect a salary.
While The Star could have plausibly helped finance Angulo’s expansion into other island business properties, he denies that his other companies have anything to do with The Star.
Star debts totaled $20 million, Angulo told management and union officials in the weeks before the shutdown, and, in an interview for this article, he said that debt broke down into $16 million in bank debt and $4 million in other obligations.
Two former executives and a third financial industry source put Angulo’s total debt at about twice that, when that held by his other companies— which run a mail order business, Vea, Teve Guía and San Juan City magazines, among others, and the Spanish Caguas weekly La Semana— are factored in.
“The problem,” one former executive with knowledge of his finances in January 2008, tells me, “is that his companies are not worth that much.” When asked about these estimates, Angulo responded: “Why are you asking about that? My other companies have nothing to do with The Star.” Angulo began racking up The Star’s debt almost immediately, with the newspaper reportedly paying the costly loan he used to finance his purchase of it, according to news reports and legal documents. In summer 1994, he first became known publicly as The Star’s owner after firing the three ex-El Nuevo Día executives who had been running it since his purchase of it in December 1993 from E.W. Scripps Co. For $6 million.
The three executives were popular among employees, known as “The Three Kings” for their arrival during the holiday season and a widespread belief that the paper would have closed had they not bought it. Angulo justified the firing because the executives planned to start up a Spanish edition (something he himself would do in 1997) , which he said at the time would have destroyed the English product.
The executives, however, say they were dismissed after refusing to transfer Star funds to other companies controlled by Angulo. They also say Angulo had initially promised to buy the newspaper with cash, but then used a 15- percent bridge loan to make the purchase, which was paid back out of Star revenues. The only money that was put up for the sale, they say, was the $350,000 they put up to buy a stake in the publication.
Instead, one of Angulo’s firms pocketed it as a commission on the loan extended to buy The Star, according to reports.
The soured partnership was settled in the courts. There would be other court cases, including a costly one against a former partner in his New York investment firm.
Angulo also took out a mortgage on the Star building and received subsequent loans and refinancing. Angulo acknowledged the financing for The Star’s purchase, but noted he used his personal guarantee to get the loan, which was refinanced “once finances stabilized.” It’s not clear whether Angulo’s acknowledged $20 million debt includes the money owed to vendors, which is substantial. Bills only got paid when failure to do so would mean a service shut off. Even then, such payments would usually require personal intervention from a top manager and represented an enormous waste of limited resources. Many thought the Byzantine payment system was purposefully designed that way.
Getting bills paid was always difficult with Angulo, not only in recent years when the newspaper’s financial situation appeared to turn critical, for
former newsroom executives say.
“That kind of thing started happening early on….just not paying people,” says one executive, who was there in the mid 1990s, when Angulo took over. “He used to say ‘Scripps Howard pays their bills on time. They don’t understand cash flow.’ I think Gerry Angulo really bled that paper. Right from the beginning, he was an operator.” But Angulo called such critics “ignorant” for not knowing a thing about the newspaper’s finances. “Anyone who knows The Star, knows it was not a profitable business. It was subsidized by me,” Angulo said.
Lost in Translation In the end, Angulo’s tenure as publisher was marked by his big bet on a Spanish edition and his failure to go on the Internet.
By the time I became editor, Angulo’s eye was off the ball, more directed at his other companies, and we were cutting staff and losing other resources at a steady pace. Angulo says he was focused on other companies from 2003 through 2007.
When he first came down to Puerto Rico, Angulo worked hard at boosting advertising sales at The Star and decided to take the bold step of publishing a Spanish edition in 1997.
It was Angulo’s idea, one aimed more at gaining influence and clout from a marketing perspective, than in serving any editorial end, according to former executives. To make a second edition feasible, Angulo invested in The Star’s first computerized pagination system, an important move, which, unfortunately, was the last significant investment he made in the newspaper.
“We were surprised and a little concerned that he would want to do that.
We had not been prepared for that,” LeBlanc recalls, saying that he had denounced plans to start a Spanish edition by his predecessors as “ruinous” for the English edition.
LeBlanc believes he became convinced of the idea after learning more about the local advertising market. Former newsroom employees also believe that Angulo went Spanish to get a bigger share of the lucrative government advertising market under the Rosselló administration.
Angulo, citing the newspaper’s “credibility and objectivity,” pushed for a faithful translation of the English-language version, a decision most newsroom veterans say killed the venture from the start. Editors had pushed for a smaller translation desk and Spanishlanguage reporters, which they believed Would have given the new edition its own identity and helped both products.
Also, the new edition quickly grew into five, as Arecibo, Mayagüez and Ponce Stars were launched along with the afternoon crime tabloid El Extra. And then the effort ran out of money.
“We had five newspapers instead of one and all of a sudden we had to do it with half the people,” recalls Matos, a former Star paper boy who became managing editor, in between a full career at the Associated Press and other island media.
But the worst aspect of the edition was that it drained resources from the English edition, and harmed it through early deadlines, which especially hurt sports coverage, according to former editors. “The STAR wasted a lot of time and money on publishing a Spanish edition. The effort cost the English-language edition valuable resources as well as staff morale,” McCloskey adds.
While the new edition was initially popular, representing a boon in circulation, the effort fell apart with a loss of focus and further diversification on the Spanish side, which was then strangled of resources. Talk among Star executives was that many Spanish-speaking subscribers switched to the Spanish El San Juan Star, but then, unhappy with the quality of the product, canceled their subscriptions and never returned to the English product.
Yet, it would take years before Angulo would scale back the Spanish operation, which stayed alive for a decade, despite its limited circulation and poor quality. And all the time the English edition was losing reporters and photographers, copy editors and designers through staff cuts. Meanwhile, the publisher failed to invest money in production technology that would have allowed the newspaper to cut staff without hurting quality and would have saved newsroom jobs.
Angulo continues to insist launching a Spanish edition was a good idea, and blames its failure on an AFICA bond issue granted to El Nuevo Día by the Sila Calderón administration that allowed it to refinance its debt at preferential rates.
“That helped our competitors in a way that was difficult to overcome,” he says.
Former newsroom executives, however, say that by the time former Gov. Sila Calderón took office in 2001, the Spanish edition was already a shadow of its former self.
Angulo’s other big decision was to hold off from launching an Internet edition. While newsroom executives in the 1990s said Angulo’s position was part of an ongoing debate over whether a web edition would hurt print sales, by 2000, when Internet costs dropped and ad revenue soared, it became apparently clear it could have bolstered The Star’s credibility, reach and marketing potential. Yet Angulo refused to finance the venture.
Nobody felt the lack more than Star Washington correspondent Robert Friedman. “The Star lost a huge opportunity to play an influential role in Washington on Puerto Rico issues by not going online, where it could have reached a captive English-language readership of members of Congress, their staffers and other federal officials in the nation’s capital,” Friedman says.
“This attitude was symptomatic of the unenlightened and short-sighted way Angulo ran the newspaper…and a bad business decision,” Friedman continues.
“By going online, newspapers reach out to even more readers and build readership. The Star’s owner was, I believe, the only owner of any newspaper of any note anywhere that either did not understand or refused to accept the increasing dependency of newspapers and the Internet on one another.” Star newsroom veterans, to a reporter or editor, acknowledge The Star was never a profitable enterprise, but believe it could have survived if its resources were not diverted into the illfated Spanish venture and it built a strong web presence able to tap into the potential audience of four million stateside Puerto Ricans.
Angulo also expresses regret that he could not keep The Star open. “I’m very sad, but I subsidized it for years.
I’m sad to lose it, and because of that I put a lot of money into it to try to keep it afloat.” Star veterans say that in the end, Angulo, a businessman who knew nothing of the newspaper industry, simply made too many mistakes.
“The Star needed a real publisher who cared about it. He had the best news people in Puerto Rico at his disposal and he did not respect them.
He’s going to be remembered as the guy who closed the best newspaper in town,” Matos says.
Editor’s Note: The San Juan Star’s demise lead a group of former San Juan Star employees to launch a new paper called The Puerto Rico Daily Sun, the first island daily published by a cooperative.
The new English-language daily’s first issue hit newsstands on Oct. 22 with an initial circulation of 15,000 to 20,000 copies.
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By Cate Long I wanted to write you to discuss the condition of Puerto Rico's economy and its municipal debt load. After I wrote a column last week entitled “Puerto Rico is America's Greece,” I was surprised to see the piece get a lot of attention.
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On to Illinois and Puerto Rico
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The GOP nomination battle could go into May or June, as the candidates look ahead to Illinois, Puerto Rico and Louisiana. MSNBC's Richard Lui breaks down what's at stake. >>> mitt romney says he has the math, rick santorum the momentum and newt ...
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GOP nomination fight is Romney vs. Santorum
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More>> By KASIE HUNT Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - The plodding Republican presidential nomination fight is grinding forward toward Puerto Rico - and a two-man race, with Rick Santorum ascendant and Mitt Romney vanquished in the Deep ...
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by Erica Demarest, Windy City Times Maria Antonia "Toni" Berrios made history in 2003 as the first Puerto Rican woman to join the Illinois House of Representatives. Since then, Berrios, whose father is Democratic heavyweight Joseph Berrios, ...
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Santorum Wins Ala., Miss.; Romney Hawaii - Local 10
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Santorum Wins Ala., Miss.; Romney Hawaii
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The next contest on the GOP primary calendar is Puerto Rico on Sunday. Sen. John McCain won the American Samoa caucuses in 2008. "We did it again," Santorum told supporters Tuesday night in Lafayette, Louisiana, which will hold a GOP primary on March ...
Santorum sweeps Alabama, Mississippi primaries - NECN
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Santorum sweeps Alabama, Mississippi primaries
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Equally improbable was the decision by Santorum and Romney to campaign in the next few days in Puerto Rico, which holds a primary on Sunday. Illinois holds its primary next Tuesday, and already Romney's super PAC was advertising there in hopes of ...
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SBA Honors Nation's Top Small Businesses
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Apple stores to open at 8 am Friday for sales of new iPads - Los Angeles Times
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Apple stores to open at 8 am Friday for sales of new iPads
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By Nathan Olivarez-Giles In less than 48 hours, Apple's brick-and-mortar retail stores are scheduled to open early to sell the third-generation iPad in 10 different markets -- the US (including Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands), Canada, Australia, ...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica to End Print Edition After 244 Years *...*
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More>> By KASIE HUNT Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - The plodding Republican presidential nomination fight is grinding forward toward Puerto Rico - and a two-man race, with Rick Santorum ascendant and Mitt Romney vanquished in the Deep ...
STATE HOUSE Toni Berrios on LGBT issues and her family - Windy City Times
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STATE HOUSE Toni Berrios on LGBT issues and her family
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by Erica Demarest, Windy City Times Maria Antonia "Toni" Berrios made history in 2003 as the first Puerto Rican woman to join the Illinois House of Representatives. Since then, Berrios, whose father is Democratic heavyweight Joseph Berrios, ...
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Santorum Wins Ala., Miss.; Romney Hawaii
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The next contest on the GOP primary calendar is Puerto Rico on Sunday. Sen. John McCain won the American Samoa caucuses in 2008. "We did it again," Santorum told supporters Tuesday night in Lafayette, Louisiana, which will hold a GOP primary on March ...
Santorum sweeps Alabama, Mississippi primaries - NECN
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Santorum sweeps Alabama, Mississippi primaries
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Equally improbable was the decision by Santorum and Romney to campaign in the next few days in Puerto Rico, which holds a primary on Sunday. Illinois holds its primary next Tuesday, and already Romney's super PAC was advertising there in hopes of ...
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SBA Honors Nation's Top Small Businesses
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Apple stores to open at 8 am Friday for sales of new iPads - Los Angeles Times
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Apple stores to open at 8 am Friday for sales of new iPads
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By Nathan Olivarez-Giles In less than 48 hours, Apple's brick-and-mortar retail stores are scheduled to open early to sell the third-generation iPad in 10 different markets -- the US (including Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands), Canada, Australia, ...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica to End Print Edition After 244 Years *...*
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Santorum Sweeps Deep South Republican Races - BusinessWeek
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Santorum Sweeps Deep South Republican Races
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Illinois, Puerto Rico and Louisiana are among states holding contests later this month. In April, the candidates will vie for votes in the delegate-rich states of New York, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, among others. Santorum was headed to Puerto Rico ...
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Reynolds American plans to cut 10 pct of workforce by end of 2014, saving $70M ... - Washington Post
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Reynolds American plans to cut 10 pct of workforce by end of 2014, saving $70M ...
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The company had first announced the review in February, and confirmed it had laid off workers at a manufacturing plant in Tobaccoville, NC It had previously closed two cigarette plants — one in its headquarters city and another in Puerto Rico.
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Rick Santorum scheduled to be on Puerto Rican radio this afternoon at 5:30pm ET.
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Republican candidate Rick Santorum will be on the "Enrique Cruz Radio Show" this afternoon on NotiUno in San Juan, Puerto Rico .
Santorum raises money after Southern wins
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Rick Santorum is declaring "a brand new ballgame" as he seeks to raise money after his victories last night in Alabama and Mississippi.
Santorum looks for additional wins
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Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum speaks to the media during a visit to La Fortaleza, the governor's mansion, to meet with Governor Luis Fortuno, March 14, 2012 in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Santorum says Romney a 'flawed' front-runner
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... up during his election night party, Tuesday, March 13, 2012, in Lafayette, La. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Flush from two Southern victories, Rick Santorum held up his successes as proof that GOP front-runner Mitt Romney is a ...
Rick Santorum sets sights on Illinois as Romney re-affirms focus on delegates
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Rick Santorum speaks to the media during a visit to La Fortaleza, the governor's mansion, to meet with Governor Luis Fortuno in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Rick Santorum To Puerto Rico: Speak English If You Want Statehood
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... adopt English as its primary language in order to become a state. Congress would have to give approval if Puerto Rico is to become the 51st state. Although Congress has considered numerous proposals to make English the official U.S. language, none ...
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Santorum says Romney a 'flawed' front-runner
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AN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Flush from two Southern victories, Rick Santorum held up his successes as proof that GOP front-runner Mitt Romney is a "fundamentally flawed" candidate.
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Reynolds American plans to cut 10 pct of workforce by end of 2014, saving $70M ...Washington PostThe company had first announced the review in February, and confirmed it had laid off workers at a manufacturing plant in Tobaccoville, NC It had previously closed two cigarette plants — one in its headquarters city and another in Puerto Rico.and more »
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However, officials notified both the Humacao municipal government and the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company of their decision to leave the island. The closing comes as a surprise to the municipality as well as the ...
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The Puerto Rico primary is on Sunday and Rick Santorum made a quick campaign stop to the island. While there, he told Puerto Ricans that if they want to pursue statehood, they should make English their primary language, ...
An open letter to *Puerto Rico* Governor Fortuño | MuniLand
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I could go on all day citing rating agencies and U.S. fund managers who do not own the debt of Puerto Rico because of the instability of the fiscal trajectory. Your government has taken some positive actions. But it still comes ...
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Rick Santorum Tells *Puerto Ricans* To Speak English If They Want *...*
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Reuters has a story today about Rick Santorum's campaign swing to Puerto Rico, whose upcoming Sunday primary has 23 20 delegates at stake. [Note: Only 20 of PR's 23 delegates are bound during the primary.]
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Rick Santorum To *Puerto Rico*: Speak English If You Want Statehood
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Puerto Rican Republican primary set for Sunday * Territory's November referendum will address statehood question SAN JUAN, March 14 (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum told Puerto Ricans on ...
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Puerto Rico Celebrates El Yunque National Forest Quarter
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By United States Mint RIO GRANDE, Puerto Rico, March 14, 2012 -- /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Treasurer of the United States Rosie Rios joined Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi and Secretary of State Kenneth McClintock today at the El Portal Rain ...
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Puerto Ricans set to voice a choice in GOP race - The Associated Press
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Puerto Ricans set to voice a choice in GOP race
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Welcome to the Caribbean, Republicans. Puerto Rico doesn't get full voting privileges in Congress. And it doesn't help pick the president in the general election. But a string of contests in the American heartland has left ...
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Puerto Ricans set to voice a choice in GOP race - San Jose Mercury News
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Puerto Ricans set to voice a choice in GOP race
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Rick Santorum, speaks to an audience at a town hall meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Wednesday March 14, 2012. SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—Welcome to the Caribbean, Republicans. Puerto Rico doesn't get full voting privileges in Congress.
GOP fight for delegates stretches to Puerto Rico - The Associated Press
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GOP fight for delegates stretches to Puerto Rico
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WASHINGTON (AP) — An upbeat Rick Santorum barreled into Puerto Rico on Wednesday in pursuit of another campaign-bending victory in a Republican presidential race where suddenly no primary is too minor and no delegate is conceded.
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Santorum to Puerto Rico: Speak English if you want statehood - Reuters
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Santorum to Puerto Rico: Speak English if you want statehood
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SAN JUAN (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum told Puerto Ricans on Wednesday they would have to make English their primary language if they want to pursue US statehood, a statement at odds with the US Constitution.
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GOP fight now Romney vs. Santorum; Gingrich lags - Plain Dealer
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GOP fight now Romney vs. Santorum; Gingrich lags
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AP SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The Republican presidential contest trudged into Puerto Rico Wednesday as a two-man race, with Rick Santorum nipping more aggressively at Mitt Romney's heels after again frustrating the front-runner in Southern ...
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AP News in Brief at 11:58 pm EDT
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WASHINGTON (AP) — An upbeat Rick Santorum barreled into Puerto Rico on Wednesday in pursuit of another campaign-bending victory in a Republican presidential race where suddenly no primary is too minor and no delegate is conceded.
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GOP fight now Romney vs. Santorum; Gingrich lags - Plain Dealer
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GOP fight now Romney vs. Santorum; Gingrich lags
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AP SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The Republican presidential contest trudged into Puerto Rico Wednesday as a two-man race, with Rick Santorum nipping more aggressively at Mitt Romney's heels after again frustrating the front-runner in Southern ...
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Rick Santorum To *Puerto Rico*: Speak English If You Want Statehood
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Puerto Rican Republican primary set for Sunday * Territory's November referendum will address statehood question SAN JUAN, March 14 (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum told Puerto Ricans on ...
Puerto Rico Celebrates El Yunque National Forest Quarter - Sacramento Bee
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Puerto Rico Celebrates El Yunque National Forest Quarter
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By United States Mint RIO GRANDE, Puerto Rico, March 14, 2012 -- /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Treasurer of the United States Rosie Rios joined Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi and Secretary of State Kenneth McClintock today at the El Portal Rain ...
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Puerto Ricans set to voice a choice in GOP race - The Associated Press
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Puerto Ricans set to voice a choice in GOP race
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Welcome to the Caribbean, Republicans. Puerto Rico doesn't get full voting privileges in Congress. And it doesn't help pick the president in the general election. But a string of contests in the American heartland has left ...
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Puerto Ricans set to voice a choice in GOP race - San Jose Mercury News
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Puerto Ricans set to voice a choice in GOP race
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Rick Santorum, speaks to an audience at a town hall meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Wednesday March 14, 2012. SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—Welcome to the Caribbean, Republicans. Puerto Rico doesn't get full voting privileges in Congress.
GOP fight for delegates stretches to Puerto Rico - The Associated Press
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GOP fight for delegates stretches to Puerto Rico
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WASHINGTON (AP) — An upbeat Rick Santorum barreled into Puerto Rico on Wednesday in pursuit of another campaign-bending victory in a Republican presidential race where suddenly no primary is too minor and no delegate is conceded.
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Santorum to Puerto Rico: Speak English if you want statehood - Reuters
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Santorum to Puerto Rico: Speak English if you want statehood
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SAN JUAN (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum told Puerto Ricans on Wednesday they would have to make English their primary language if they want to pursue US statehood, a statement at odds with the US Constitution.
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GOP fight now Romney vs. Santorum; Gingrich lags - Plain Dealer
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GOP fight now Romney vs. Santorum; Gingrich lags
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AP SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The Republican presidential contest trudged into Puerto Rico Wednesday as a two-man race, with Rick Santorum nipping more aggressively at Mitt Romney's heels after again frustrating the front-runner in Southern ...
AP News in Brief at 11:58 pm EDT - NECN
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Rick Santorum Tells Puerto Ricans To Speak English, So Mitt Romney Will Win Puerto Rico
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On that trip, Santorum suggested that if Puerto Rico wanted to become a state, it would have to adopt English as its official language.
GOP fight for delegates stretches to Puerto Rico
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Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Governor Luis Fortuno, left, talks to Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen.
Puerto Rico Primary: Republicans Set To Vote On GOP Field Despite Territorial Status
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GOP Cands Bienvenidos a Puerto Rico
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Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Governor Luis Fortuno, left, talks to Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen.
Santorum To Puerto Ricans: Speak English Already
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... be able to communicate. For another, the position he takes is completely opposed to that taken by Republicans in Puerto Rico: Santorum's statement may fall flat with Puerto Rican Republicans, who have always argued that issues of language and ...
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Amid debate over island's status, Puerto Ricans prepare to help choose a GOP ... - Newser
Amid debate over island's status, Puerto Ricans prepare to help choose a GOP ... - Newser
Amid debate over island's status, Puerto Ricans prepare to help choose a GOP ...NewserRick Santorum, left, shakes hands with Iraq veteran Emmanuel Melendez during a town meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Wednesday March 14, 2012.... (Associated Press) Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, speaks to ...
Santorum To *Puerto Rico*: Speak English If You *...* - *Business* Insider
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The Puerto Rico primary is on Sunday and Rick Santorum made a quick campaign stop to the island. While there, he told Puerto Ricans that if they want to pursue statehood, they should make English their primary language, ...
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Rick Santorum makes an excellent point when telling Puerto Rico if they want statehood, speak English. While the United States is a melting pot of...
*Puerto Rico* Primary: Republicans Set To Vote On GOP Field *...*
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Puerto Rico was last in the national political spotlight four years ago, in June 2008, during the epic Democratic delegate battle between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama. Clinton, who was a New York senator at the ...
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In an interview with El Vocero newspaper, Santorum said he supported Puerto Ricans' right to self-determination regarding the island's political status. "We need to work together and determine what type of relationship we ...
*Puerto Ricans* set to voice a choice in GOP race | LeftWingPost.com
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Even though Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens, they pay no federal taxes and cannot vote in presidential elections. Its political parties are largely built around disagreements over its political status. The fight over whether it ...
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In an interview with El Vocero newspaper, Santorum said he supported Puerto Ricans' right to self-determination regarding the island's political.
Santorum Says Puerto Rico Must Adopt English For Statehood - WCVB-TV
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Santorum Says Puerto Rico Must Adopt English For Statehood
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By Kevin LiptakCNN (CNN) -- Rick Santorum on Wednesday laid out one caveat he would hold for the US territory of Puerto Rico before it obtained statehood, saying the island would need to make English its principal language before it becomes a state.
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Rick Santorum waded into a controversial issue today when he gave an interview to El Vocero, one of the biggest newspapers in Puerto Rico. The paper asked the former Pennsylvania senator if he would back Puerto Rican statehood if Spanish along with ...
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Santorum wins hurt Gingrich as GOP race stretches on - KSAT San Antonio
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Santorum wins hurt Gingrich as GOP race stretches on
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Rick Santorum took his re-energized Republican presidential campaign to Puerto Rico on Wednesday after primary victories in the South raised questions about conservative rival Newt Gingrich's viability as a candidate and portended a long battle with ...
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Santorum: English needed for Puerto Rico statehood - The Seattle Times
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Santorum: English needed for Puerto Rico statehood
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Puerto Rico is a US commonwealth. Its residents have US citizenship but can only vote for president in the primaries, nor do they have a voting representative in Congress. Puerto Ricans will hold a referendum Nov. 6 on the political status of the ...
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Puerto Rico gets to have its say in GOP race
USA TODAY
Even though Puerto Ricans are US citizens, they pay no federal taxes and cannot vote in presidential elections. Its political parties are largely built around disagreements over its political status. The fight over whether it should push for statehood ...
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(Reuters) – Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum told Puerto Ricans on Wednesday they would have to make English their primary language if they want to pursue U.S. statehood, a statement at odds with the U.S. ...
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Welcome to the Caribbean, Republicans. Puerto Rico doesn't get full voting privileges in Congress.
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Rick Santorum said Puerto Rico would have to adopt English as its primary language if it wants to achieve statehood. Like any other state, there has to be compliance with this and any other federal law, Santorum Santorum ...
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Santorum Says Puerto Rico Must Adopt English For Statehood
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By Kevin LiptakCNN (CNN) -- Rick Santorum on Wednesday laid out one caveat he would hold for the US territory of Puerto Rico before it obtained statehood, saying the island would need to make English its principal language before it becomes a state.
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Santorum: Puerto Rico Must Adopt English If It Wants Statehood
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... waded into a controversial issue today when he gave an interview to El Vocero , one of the biggest newspapers in Puerto Rico. The paper asked the former Pennsylvania senator if he would back Puerto Rican statehood if Spanish along with English ...
Santorum Tells Puerto Ricans to Adopt English for Statehood
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Campaigning in Puerto Rico today, Rick Santorum said that Puerto Ricans needed to adopt English as their official language if they wanted to make a serious push for U.S. statehood.
Math is in Romney's favour, even if enthusiasm isn't
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... to the media during a visit to La Fortaleza to meet with Governor Luis Fortuno on Wednesday in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. "There is a key political issue here - and it's the inability of Mitt Romney to unify the Republican coalition. He has ...
Rick Santorum Brings His Campaign To Puerto Rico, Says Republican Voters are Telling Romney 'No'
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After victories in Mississippi and Alabama on Tuesday evening, Rick Santorum arrived in Puerto Rico, a territory that has 23 delegates in a race that has become a hunt for them.
Santorum: English needed for Puerto Rico statehood
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In an interview with a San Juan newspaper, El Vocero, Santorum said English would have to be the "main language" if Puerto Rico were to become a state.
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Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, left, talks with reporters as he leaves La Fortaleza, or Fortess, where he met with the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Governor Luis Fortuno, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Wednesday March 14, 2012.
Santorum: Puerto Rico Must Adopt English If It Wants Statehood
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... waded into a controversial issue today when he gave an interview to El Vocero, one of the biggest newspapers in Puerto Rico. The issue? The island's primary language. The paper asked the former Pennsylvania senator if he would back Puerto Rican ...
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Santorum Says Puerto Rico Must Adopt English For StatehoodWCVB-TVBy Kevin LiptakCNN (CNN) -- Rick Santorum on Wednesday laid out one caveat he would hold for the US territory of Puerto Rico before it obtained statehood, saying the island would need to make English its principal language before it becomes a state.
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Santorum: English needed for Puerto Rico statehood - Palm Beach Post
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Palm Beach PostSantorum: English needed for Puerto Rico statehoodPalm Beach PostRick Santorum attends a town meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Wednesday March 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Dennis M. Rivera Pichardo) Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Governor Luis Fortuno, left, talks to Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen.
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New York TimesGOP's Rick Santorum says Puerto Rico must make English its main language to ...Washington PostSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum said Wednesday that Puerto Rico should only gain statehood if the territory makes English its main language. In an interview with a San Juan newspaper, El Vocero, Santorum said ...Santorum says Puerto Rico must adopt English for statehoodCNN (blog)The Two-Way : NPRNPRall 168 news articles »
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McNeill rallies to win Puerto Rico Open
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RIO GRANDE, Puerto Rico – George McNeill birdied the last three holes for a 3-under 69 to rally past Japanese star Ryo Ishikawa and win the Puerto Rico Open on Sunday. Ishikawa, on the anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that left his homeland in ...
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Santorum roars into Puerto Rico hoping to keep momentum going - San Jose Mercury News
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Santorum roars into Puerto Rico hoping to keep momentum going
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By David Espo AP WASHINGTON -- An upbeat Rick Santorum barreled into Puerto Rico on Wednesday in pursuit of another campaign-bending victory in a Republican presidential race where suddenly no primary is too minor and no delegate is conceded.
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Puerto Rico gets to have its say in GOP race
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AP SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Puerto Rico doesn't get full voting privileges in Congress. It doesn't vote for the president in the general election. And it has been fighting for decades not just over its status as a US territory but to make its voice ...
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Santorum wins Ala., Miss.; Romney takes Hawaii - Boston.com
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Santorum wins Ala., Miss.; Romney takes Hawaii
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Equally improbable was the decision by Santorum and Romney to campaign in the next few days in Puerto Rico, which holds a primary Sunday. Illinois holds its primary next Tuesday, and already Romney's super PAC was advertising there in hopes of giving ...
Million vote man: Romney touts his wide appeal - Plain Dealer
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Million vote man: Romney touts his wide appeal
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AP SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Rick Santorum holds up his latest two upsets as evidence that GOP front-runner Mitt Romney is "fundamentally flawed." But Romney said Wednesday he's won a million more votes than Santorum in the presidential nominating ...
Political Portrait of the Week from The Washington Post - Statesman Journal (blog)
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Political Portrait of the Week from The Washington Post
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Coming up: Missouri caucuses, March 17; Puerto Rico caucuses, March 18; Illinois March 20; Louisiana, March 24; District of Columbia, Maryland, Texas, Wisconsin, April 3. James Hill is senior editor of The Washington Post News Media Services.
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... referred to by many in my state as Senador Puertorriqueo. They used to make fun of me, 'Why are you representing Puerto Rico?' Well, someone has to because they don't have a voice," Santorum said at town hall here. The ex-senator's San Juan agenda ...
O'Connell:: Santorum shocked GOP with Alabama, Mississippi wins
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... him in line to go one-on-one with frontrunner Mitt Romney. Santorum campaigned for votes Wednesday in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Santorum: English needed for Puerto Rico statehood
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Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum attends a town meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Wednesday March 14, 2012.
Rick Santorum: English needed for Puerto Rico statehood
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Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum said Wednesday that Puerto Rico should only gain statehood if the territory makes English its main language.
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Puerto Rico doesn't get full voting privileges in Congress. It doesn't vote for the president in the general election.
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Republican presidential candidate,Rick Santorum speaks to an audience at a town hall meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico An upbeat Rick Santorum has barrelled into Puerto Rico in pursuit of another victory in a Republican presidential race where suddenly no primary is too minor and no delegate is conceded.
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Local business's, organizations, groups working and growing together. Home · Site Info · Advertise Here · Submit News · How To's · How To Use The Directory · Add Ur Listing .... SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum said Wednesday that Puerto Rico should only gain statehood if the territory makes English its main language.
GOP fight for delegates stretches to *Puerto Rico* - News, Weather *...*
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News, Weather and Sports for Lincoln, NE; KLKNTV.comGOP fight for delegates stretches to Puerto Rico. Member Center: Create Account|; Log In; Manage Account|; Log Out. SITE SEARCH WEB SEARCH BY Google ...
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Santorum: English key to Puerto Rican statehood
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By THE WASHINGTON TIMES SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum, campaigning here in advance of Sunday's primary, says Puerto Rico should only gain statehood if the territory makes English its principal language.
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Santorum Says Puerto Rico Must Adopt English For Statehood
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By Kevin LiptakCNN (CNN) -- Rick Santorum on Wednesday laid out one caveat he would hold for the US territory of Puerto Rico before it obtained statehood, saying the island would need to make English its principal language before it becomes a state.
GOP fight for delegates stretches to Puerto Rico - Kansas City Star
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GOP fight for delegates stretches to Puerto Rico
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By DAVID ESPO AP Special Correspondent WASHINGTON -- An upbeat Rick Santorum barreled into Puerto Rico on Wednesday in pursuit of another campaign-bending victory in a Republican presidential race where suddenly no primary is too minor and no delegate ...
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Santorum: English needed for Puerto Rico statehood
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum said Wednesday that Puerto Rico should only gain statehood if the territory makes English its main language. In an interview with a San Juan newspaper, El Vocero, Santorum said ...
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Local business's, organizations, groups working and growing together. Home · Site Info · Advertise Here · Submit News · How To's · How To Use The Directory · Add Ur Listing .... SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum said Wednesday that Puerto Rico should only gain statehood if the territory makes English its main language. In an interview with a San Juan newspaper, El Vocero, Santorum said English would have to be the ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- An upbeat Rick Santorum barreled into Puerto Rico on Wednesday in pursuit of another campaign-bending victory in a Republican presidential race where suddenly no primary is too minor and no delegate is conceded.
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He met with Gov. Luis Fortuno, who is backing Santorum rival Mitt Romney and held town hall events with veterans and local business leaders. Fortuno backs Romney in large part because the former Massachusetts governor ...
Santorum mocks Romney's math - WDIV Detroit
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Santorum mocks Romney's math
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"It's pretty sad when all you have is to do math instead of trying to go out there and win it on substance and win it on what Americans want to hear about," Santorum told CNN at a town hall in San Juan, Puerto Rico. A Republican primary in the US ...
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Santorum Mocks Romney's Math
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By Jim Acosta CNN National Political Correspondent San Juan, Puerto Rico (CNN) -- Rick Santorum laughed out loud at a Romney campaign strategy memo that claims the former Pennsylvania Senator needs "an impossible number of delegates" to take the lead ...
Santorum to *Puerto Rico*: Speak English If You Want Statehood *...*
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Rick Santorum To Puerto Rico: Speak English If You Want Statehood Well, if there was any doubt in people's minds that Santorum has no regard for the. ... Return to American Politics ...
An open letter to *Puerto Rico* Governor Fortuño | MuniLand
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I could go on all day citing rating agencies and U.S. fund managers who do not own the debt of Puerto Rico because of the instability of the fiscal trajectory. Your government has taken some positive actions. But it still comes ...
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While there, he told Puerto Ricans that if they want to pursue statehood, they should make English their primary language, Reuters reports. Nevermind the fact ... Please follow Politics on Twitter and Facebook. Follow Richa ...
Santorum: Romney a 'flawed' front-runner
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... raising and spending money for his effort to wrap up the nomination race as it spreads to far-flung contests in Puerto Rico, Illinois, Louisiana and beyond. "If we keep winning races, eventually people are going to figure out that Gov. Romney is not ...
Upbeat Santorum works for next win
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Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum talks with reporters as he leaves La Fortaleza, or Fortress, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Wednesday.
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... it on substance and win it on what Americans want to hear about," Santorum told CNN at a town hall in San Juan, Puerto Rico. A Republican primary in the U.S. territory is set for Sunday. "We're a long, long way from over. You know what? I suspect if ...
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Santorum: English needed for Puerto Rico statehood
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Rick Santorum attends a town meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Wednesday, March 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Dennis M. Rivera Pichardo) Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum said Wednesday that Puerto Rico should only gain statehood if the territory ...
Puerto Ricans set to voice a choice in GOP race - Bellingham Herald
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Puerto Ricans set to voice a choice in GOP race
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Rick Santorum To *Puerto Ricans*: Learn English Or No Statehood
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Rick Santorum began inventing new laws right off the top of his head on Wednesday when he told the people of Puerto Rico during his visit that they couldn't.
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Rick Santorum hasn't been in favor of statehood for Puerto Rico in as unqualified a way as Mitt Romney. Santorum was in San Juan campaigning for Sunday's GOP presidential primary. He met with Gov. Luis Fortuno, who is ...
Daily Kos: Santorum tells *Puerto Ricans* to start talking American
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Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum told Puerto Ricans on Wednesday they would have to make English their primary language if they want to pursue U.S. statehood, a statement at odds with the U.S. Constitution.
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La DEA realiza desde tempranas horas de la madrugada un operativo en el residencial público La Montaña en Jayuya, donde busca arrestar a 41 personas ligadas al trasiego de drogas. http://end.pr/yStkha
The DEA carried out from early hours of the morning an operating residential public mountain in Jayuya, where looking for arresting 41 people linked to the transfer of drugs. http://end.PR/yStkha (Translated by Bing)
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15 marzo 2012
06:25 a.m.
Golpe federal a un residencial en Jayuya
La DEA diligencia 41 órdenes de arresto por narcotráfico y armas
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La Administración Federal Antidrogas (DEA, por sus siglas en inglés) realiza desde tempranas horas de la madrugada de hoy un operativo en el residencial público La Montaña en Jayuya, donde busca arrestar a 41 personas ligadas al trasiego de drogas, detalló la portavoz de la agencia, Laila Rico.
Detalló que existe una acusación de siete cargos contra 41 individuos “por conspirar para poseer con intención de distribuir heroína, cocaína y marihuana, y también conspirar para poseer armas de fuego ilegales durante transacciones de narcotráfico”.
Hasta el momento, se han arrestado a 27 personas. Estos son transportados hasta el coliseo Pachín Vicéns de Ponce. Allí, el director de la DEA, Pedro Janer, realizará una conferencia de prensa para dar más detalles de los arrestos.
Preliminarmente, Janer informó que este operativo forma parte de un conjunto de plan para combatir el narcotráfico y los crímenes violentos en la Isla.
Especificó que esta organización del residencial La Montaña “se destacaba por los actos violentos que cometían para poder hacer sus fechorías”.
Dijo que en el residencial ocuparon apartamentos vacíos usados para guardar drogas y dinero.
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6:25 a.m.
Strike a federal residential Jayuya
The DEA diligence warrants for 41 drug and weapons
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The Federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA, for its acronym in English) hits from the early hours of dawn today an operation in public housing in Jayuya Mountain, where he sought to arrest 41 people linked to drug trade, the spokesman explained agency, Laila Rico.
He explained that there is an indictment on seven counts against 41 individuals "for conspiring to possess with intent to distribute heroin, cocaine and marijuana, and conspiring to possess illegal firearms during drug transactions."
So far, they have arrested 27 people. These are transported to the coliseum Pachin Vicens of Ponce. There, the DEA director, Pedro Janer, held a press conference to give details of the arrests.
Preliminarily, Janer said that this operation is part of a joint plan to combat drug trafficking and violent crime on the Island
He specified that this organization of residential Mountain "was notorious for violent acts they committed to do their misdeeds."
He said in the occupied residential vacant apartments used to store drugs and money.
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En portada: Mientras el novio de la senadora Evelyn Vázquez la desvincula del lío con la Feria de Turismo, los informes dicen lo contrario
On cover: while the boyfriend of the Senator Evelyn Vazquez her split with the mess with the tourism fair, reports say otherwise (Translated by Bing)
Mientras el novio de la senadora la desvincula del lío con la Feria de Turismo, los informes dicen lo contrario http://end.pr/wRu8pS
While the boyfriend of the Senator her split with the mess with the tourism fair, reports say the opposite http://end.pr/wRu8pS (Translated by Bing)
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