Saturday, May 18, 2013
Thousands attend Puerto Rico LGBT rights march - Washington Blade - 5/18/2013
Thousands attend Puerto Rico LGBT rights march - Washington Blade - 5/18/2013
Marchers carry a Pride flag and crosses with “they discriminate” written on them through Old San Juan on May 17. (Washington Blade photo by Michael K. Lavers)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Thousands marched through the streets of the Puerto Rican capital on Friday in support of LGBT rights.
San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz and Sen. Ramón Nieves Pérez, who sponsored the sweeping anti-LGBT non-discrimination bill the Senate on Thursday passed by a 15-11 vote margin, unfurled an LGBT Pride flag from the balcony of City Hall as marchers passed. She stood with members of Butterflies Trans Association, a trans advocacy group, while wearing a white hand band with the word “equity” on it as she spoke from the steps of the Puerto Rican capitol at the end of the march.
“I say from the bottom of my heart to those who are listening to us — all of Puerto Rico; we are all equal,” Yulín said.
Alicia Burgos, the mother of Pedro Julio Serrano of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, and his father spoke to marchers from the back of a pick-up truck that stopped near Plaza de Colón in Old San Juan.
“We are marching against homophobia,” she said.
The march, which was one of dozens around the world that commemorated the annual International Day Against Homophobia, took place hours after a Puerto Rican Senate committee held a hearing on a bill that would extend second parent adoption rights to gays and lesbians.
The Puerto Rico Supreme Court in February narrowly upheld the island’s ban on gay second parent adoptions in response to the case of Dr. Ángeles Acosta Rodríguez who sought to adopt the child her partner of 25 years, Dr. Carmen Milagros Vélez Vega, conceived through in vitro fertilization. Vélez received a standing ovation from the adoption measure’s supporters who attended the hearing after she finished her testimony with her partner and their 12-year-old daughter by her side.
A third bill that three representatives introduced earlier this year would add sexual orientation and gender identity and expression to the island’s anti-domestic violence laws.
Advocates continue to point to the three aforementioned bills as significant movement in support of rights for LGBT Puerto Ricans since Gov. Alejandro García and Yulín, who issuedtwo LGBT-specific executive orders on Monday, took their respective offices in January. In spite of this progress, they maintain anti-LGBT discrimination and violence remain rampant throughout the island.
Yulín and others who spoke during the march referenced Jorge Steven López Mercado; a gay teenager whose decapitated, dismembered and partially burned body was found dumped along a remote roadside near Cayey in 2009. One march participant even pretended he was dead on the sidewalk in front of the Puerto Rican Capitol as others outlined his body with masking tape and placed evidence markers above rocks with anti-gay slurs written onto them.
A group from the Puerto Rican city of Ponce takes part in a march for LGBT rights in San Juan on May 17. (Washington Blade photo by Michael K. Lavers)
“I, as the mother of a gay individual, say I am proud to be here,” one member of the Butterflies Trans Association said as she spoke to the crowd from the steps of the Puerto Rican Capitol. “We are fighting as a movement to tell (lawmakers) that we are in search of a place where [LGBT Puerto Ricans] can be successful, a place where we can take care of our people.”
Eduardo, who traveled to San Juan from Ponce with a group of 150 people, agreed as he spoke to the Blade near Plaza de Colón.
“We are here because we want equality,” he said. “We want the same equality that everybody else has.”
San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz unfurled Pride flag at City Hall
5/18/2013 - Headlines: Puerto Rico LGBT Community celebrates the historic Senate vote | UN TRIUNFO DE LA DIGNIDAD HUMANA - via Opinión - El Nuevo Día on 5/18/13
Puerto Rico LGBT Community celebrates the historic Senate vote:
via Opinión - El Nuevo Día on 5/18/13
UN TRIUNFO DE LA DIGNIDAD HUMANA
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“The same rights for each and every citizen of Puerto Rico, that's what we are asking and that's what we hope to achieve, the country's justice and peace that we want to achieve,” Ricky recently said in a statement. “Puerto ...
“This Assembly must recognize the rights of minorities, even if this recognition is unpopular,” Pedro Julio Serrano of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force said during the Puerto Rico Senate Judiciary, Security and Veterans Committee hearing on ...
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“The same rights for each and every citizen of Puerto Rico, that's what we are asking and that's what we hope to achieve, the country's justice and peace that we want to achieve,” Ricky recently said in a statement. “Puerto ...
via puerto rico - Búsqueda de blogs by Just Jared on 5/12/13
“The same rights for each and every citizen of Puerto Rico, that's what we are asking and that's what we hope to achieve, the country's justice and peace that we want to achieve,” Ricky recently said in a statement. “Puerto ...
via puerto rico - Búsqueda de blogs by Just Jared on 5/12/13
“The same rights for each and every citizen of Puerto Rico, that's what we are asking and that's what we hope to achieve, the country's justice and peace that we want to achieve,” Ricky recently said in a statement. “Puerto ...
Killing in Russia adds to concerns over treatment of gays - Reuters
Killing in Russia adds to concerns over treatment of gays
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Jugando Pelota Dura: Medida estatus para Puerto Rico presentada por Pierluis - Published on May 17, 2013 - Video
Published on May 17, 2013
Rony Jarabo, analista PPD y Jorge Dávila, director ejecutivo del PNP, junto a Milly Méndez, Alex Delgado y Ferdinand Pérez, analizan medida de estatus presentada por Pedro Pierluisi en el Congreso de Estados Unidos. Dentro de este contexto hablan sobre la disidencia dentro del PNP ya que entienden que no es un acta de admisión.
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Puerto Rico's New Governor: We're 'Back on Track' | Governor opens PR Investment Conference
Puerto Rico's New Governor: We're 'Back on Track'
Wall Street Journal (India) (blog)
A further downgrade into junk status would reverberate throughout the $3.7 trillion muni-bond market because Puerto Rico's bonds are widely held: interest on the bonds have the unique status of being exempt from federal, state and local income taxes.
Puerto Rico's Sales Tax Changes Get Moody's Approval - Tax-News.comTax-news.com
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Governor opens PR Investment Conference. Read: http://ow.ly/l8vS1 #caribbeanbusiness
Wall Street Journal (India) (blog)
A further downgrade into junk status would reverberate throughout the $3.7 trillion muni-bond market because Puerto Rico's bonds are widely held: interest on the bonds have the unique status of being exempt from federal, state and local income taxes.
Puerto Rico's Sales Tax Changes Get Moody's Approval - Tax-News.comTax-news.com
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Governor opens PR Investment Conference. Read: http://ow.ly/l8vS1 #caribbeanbusiness
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APRUEBAN LEY 238 NO DISCRIMINACION A LA COMUNIDAD GAY - Video
Published on May 16, 2013
LUCAS 17-26-Como fue en los días de Noé, así también será en los días del Hijo del Hombre. 27-Comían, bebían, se casaban y se daban en casamiento, hasta el día en que entró Noé en el arca, y vino el diluvio y los destruyó a todos. 28-Asimismo como sucedió en los días de Lot; comían, bebían, compraban, vendían, plantaban, edificaban; 29-mas el día en que Lot salió de Sodoma, llovió del cielo fuego y azufre, y los destruyó a todos. 30-Así será el día en que el Hijo del Hombre se manifieste.
Latin American Program in the News: Obama da un vuelco comercial a su relación con América Latina
Latin American Program in the News: Obama da un vuelco comercial a su relación con América Latina
CNN
CNN
Las estadísticas demuestran que América Latina es un continente en crecimiento. La Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (Cepal) pronosticó una subida del Producto Interior Bruto del 3.5% en la región. México crecerá ese mismo porcentaje, impulsado por la economía estadounidense. De acuerdo con los analistas, EU podría participar en este crecimiento, con los nuevos pactos comerciales que surgen en la región, como la Alianza del Pacífico, que incluye a Chile, Perú, Colombia y México, y que pone su mirada en Asia, otro punto de crecimiento mundial.
“Debajo de todo, está el convencimiento de que el incremento en las exportaciones y la profundización de las relaciones con la región serán la clave para el crecimiento económico de Estados Unidos y su competitividad a largo plazo”, dijo Cindy Arnson, directora para América Latina del Woodrow Wilson Center, una organización con sede en Washington. “Es cierto que el senador John Kerry, actual secretario de Estado, se equivocó al referirse a la región como el patio trasero estadounidense. Pero esa mirada significa la intención de mantener relaciones más cercanas y productivas con la región, algo cuya necesidad es obvia para Estados Unidos”.
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Jorge Videla, Argentina's Ex-Military Leader, Dies in Jail - GV | Videla's death leaves unanswered questions over Argentina's 'disappeared' - 5/18/2013
Videla's death leaves unanswered questions over Argentina's 'disappeared' - 5/18/2013
Argentine dictator Videla dies in prison at age 87 - Caribbean Business
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buenos aires, argentina former dictator jorge rafael videla, who took power over argentina in a 1976 coup and led a military junta that killed...
Argentine dictator Videla dies in prison at age 87 - Caribbean Business
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buenos aires, argentina former dictator jorge rafael videla, who took power over argentina in a 1976 coup and led a military junta that killed...
Military torture center, today turned into the Memory Museum – City of Rosario. Picture by: Laura Schneider
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