Thursday, June 13, 2013

“El Chuchin” podría ir a la cárcel – Vocero de Puerto Rico

“El Chuchin” podría ir a la cárcel – Vocero de Puerto Rico

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“El Chuchin” podría ir a la cárcel

El caso está relacionado con la facturación y cobro de dietas legislativas en días que no estaba laborando
 
El exsenador muestra la cicatriz de la cirugía de corazón abierto a la que fue sometido recientemente. EL VOCERO / Willín Rodríguez
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El exsenador novoprogresista Antonio (El Chuchin) Soto Díaz se expone a cumplir cárcel, de resultar convicto de los cargos de apropiación ilegal agravada y falsedad ideológica, luego de que la jueza Ladi Buono determinó causa para su arresto, ayer, en el Centro Judicial de San Juan.
El exlegislador por Guayama tuvo que pagar $1,300 de fianza, a razón de $50 por cada uno de los 26 cargos.
El caso está relacionado con la reclamación y cobro de dietas legislativas en días que no estaba laborando por encontrarse de viaje fuera de la jurisdicción de Puerto Rico, según las acusaciones.
El Fiscal Especial Independiente (FEI), Emilio E. Arill, fue quien presentó dichos cargos contra el exlegislador. La vista preliminar fue pautada para el 26 de junio.
Preocupado por su salud
Mientras esperaba para completar el trámite de su fianza, Soto aseguró que es inocente y expresó que más allá de las acusaciones, le preocupa su salud, ya que fue sometido a una cirugía de corazón abierto recientemente. El legislador, quien vestía una guayabera blanca, mostró la cicatriz que tiene en el pecho.
Por su parte, su abogada Griselle Hernández también dio fe de su inocencia, pero no descartó negociar con el Departamento de Justicia. Criticó la radicación de cargos y el momento en que se hizo, ya que el referido al Panel del Fiscal Especial Independiente (FEI) estuvo en la oficina del exsecretario de Justicia, Guillermo Somoza, más de dos años, hasta el 12 de diciembre, días antes de culminar su mandato.
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NOAA $1 million grant aids purchase of critical coastal habitat in Puerto Rico

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Acquisition expands protected land in Reserva Natural Corredor Ecologico del Noreste

June 13, 2013
Puerto Rico.
NOAA's Coastal and Estuarine Land Conservation Program helped acquire more than 87 acres of critical coastal habitat in Puerto Rico, that will serve to protect a wetlands, mangroves and beaches that are are also nesting grounds for endangered sea turtles.
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A NOAA grant of $1 million has helped the territory of Puerto Rico complete the acquisition of Dos Mares, an 87-acre parcel that includes wetlands, forested wetlands, and a coastal mangrove forest.
Puerto Rico’s Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (DNER) provided $2 million in matching funds for the acquisition. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service contributed $500,000 to the purchase. and the Trust for Public Land also contributed other costs related to the purchase.  
The grant comes from a fiscal year 2010 grant competition held by NOAA’s Coastal and Estuarine Land Conservation Program (CELCP).
The acquisition of the Dos Mares parcel completes the overall San Miguel Phase III CELCP project, which included the previous purchase of a 117-acre parcel. Both properties are located within Puerto Rico’s Reserva Natural Corredor Ecológico del Noreste (Northeast Ecological Corridor Reserve), an ecologically diverse mosaic of coastal habitats including coral reefs, inter-tidal areas, wetlands, forests, mangroves, and beaches. The reserve is home to more than 800 species of flora and fauna and its pristine beaches are a popular nesting area for endangered leatherback and hawksbill turtles. Currently about 65 percent of the reserve’s 3,000 acres are in public ownership.
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Map of NOAA's Coastal and Estuarine Land Conservation Program project area along the coast of Puerto Rico.
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“The Northeast Ecological Corridor is an area of high priority and importance for us. The acquisition of these lands guarantees the long-term protection of this ecologically magnificent area,” said Irma Pagán, sub-secretary of Puerto Rico DNER. “This reserve is unique because the driving force for protecting it and maintaining its natural integrity has been the community and their grass roots commitment and efforts. Partnerships with agencies like NOAA and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have been vital in moving forward with these efforts.”
“This NOAA conservation grant program is one of America’s best investments because it leverages funds from federal, state and private partners to acquire and protect acres of critical coastal habitat that help coastal communities and ecosystems become more resilient to climate change and human impacts,” said Margaret Davidson, acting director of NOAA’s Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management. “We are pleased to have contributed to the protection of this critical habitat in Puerto Rico.”
The long-term protection of the Dos Mares and San Miguel properties also complements the efforts ofNOAA’s Coral Reef Conservation Program to manage and protect coral reefs within the reserve. The program is currently supporting the development of a watershed plan for Rio Fajardo and an integrated marine management plan with other partners, including DNER.
NOAA’s CELCP, established by Congress in 2002 to advance the objectives of the Coastal Zone Management Act, has protected nearly 100,000 acres of critical coastal and estuarine lands in partnership with federal, state, territorial and local government agencies and private organizations.
NOAA’s mission is to understand and predict changes in the Earth's environment, from the depths of the ocean to the surface of the sun, and to conserve and manage our coastal and marine resources. Join us on FacebookTwitter and our other social media channels.
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Throw It Out And It Powers Your Home: Puerto Rico Turns To Garbage For Renewable Energy

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Puerto Ricans will soon be turning their trash into renewable energy. On Tuesday, the Environmental Protection Agency 
announced 
its final approval of an air permit for a 77 megawatt EfW plant, owned by Energy Answers International, a first for the U.S. island territory.
The $650 million facility, which will be built in three years in the town of Arecibo, will create thousands of direct and indirect induced jobs, and turn more than 2,100 tons of garbage a day into renewable electricity for more than 76,000 homes on the island. Creating domestic renewable energy is a major necessity since Puerto Rico’s electricity is overwhelmingly derived from imported petroleum, natural gas, and coal.
Six public hearing sessions were held since May 2012, and over 3,000 public comments had beenreviewed by the EPA. And while the comment period is open for this issued permit, Energy Answers has gone through a long and rigorous review process and there should be no objections that delay the project from moving forward.
Here are five reasons why energy from waste is a great opportunity for Puerto Rico and the rest of the United States:
Energy from waste reduces greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change
According to the EPA, for every ton of garbage processed at an EfW facility, approximately one ton of emitted carbon-dioxide equivalent in the atmosphere is prevented. This is because the trash burned at an EfW facility doesn’t generate methane, as it would at a landfill; the metals that would have been sent to the landfill are recycled instead of thrown out; and the electricity generated offsets the greenhouse gases that would otherwise have been generated from coal and natural gas plants.
Furthermore, EPA scientists concluded that sending waste to EfW facilities is the better than sending to garbage landfills with optimum conditions for capturing methane and turning it into electricity because these landfills will generate two to six times more greenhouse gases than EfW plants.
Energy from waste increases recycling rates
Communities can have both EfW and recycling strategies that are compatible. In fact, communities using EfW technology have an aggregate recycling rate above the national average. A 2009 studyexamined EfW facilities in the U.S. and found that communities using EfW have a 33 percent recycling rate. Puerto Rico currently has an 11 percent recycling rate. It is important to note then that the EfW facility in Arecibo will be the island’s largest recycling plant.
Energy from waste produces renewable energy
Puerto Rico is heavily dependent on imported fossil fuels for electricity. According to the EIA, 68 percent of the island’s electricity comes from petroleum, 16 percent from natural gas, and 15 percent from coal, and the remaining one percent of electricity comes from hydropower. While onshore and offshore wind, solar, and tidal energy must be developed on the island, EfW should also be a vital source of electricity to free Puerto Ricans from imported dirty energy.
Unlike other types of renewable energy sources, EfW is considered a base load power that operates 24 hours a day, 365 days per year. This means that EfW can pair nicely with wind and solar energy and provide electricity to the grid when the sun isn’t shining or the wind isn’t blowing.

Energy from waste can save local governments money
Hauling trash to landfills is expensive for many cities and territories. New York City, for example, paid more than $300 million last year just to transport trash to out-of-state landfills. In these cases, EfW facilities could be immediately beneficial by saving governments money while generating jobs and local revenue from an EfW facility. On a long-term economic basis, EfW facilities cost less than disposing of waste in landfills due to returns from the electricity sold and even the sale of recovered metals.
Jeremy K. O’Brien, director of applied research for the solid-waste-management advocacy organization Solid Waste Association of North America, writes that, “Over the life of the [EfW] facility, which is now confidently projected to be in the range of 40 to 50 years, a community can expect to pay significantly less for MSW disposal at a [EfW] facility than at a regional MSW landfill.”

Energy from waste is an important solution to solving landfilling issues
Of Puerto Rico’s 32 landfills, government officials have said that only about five meet local and federal standards. This means that by 2014 the Puerto Rico Environmental Quality Board could close the majority of the island’s landfills causing Puerto Rico to run out of space to dispose of its trash by 2018.
Additionally, methane emissions in landfills are a problem since methane is more efficient at trapping radiation than carbon dioxide emissions. Consequently, landfills are the third-largest contributor of anthropogenic methane emissions in the U.S., accounting for 16 percent of total methane emissions as a result of human activities in 2011 and preceded only by the natural gas and agricultural sectors, respectively.
Energy from waste is a key solution for fossil fuel-dependent regions like Puerto Rico to reduce their reliance on dirty energy, cut emissions from landfills and save money — all while taking out the trash.

Matt Kasper is the Special Assistant for Energy policy at the Center for American Progress.
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Waste-to-energy project in Puerto Rico secures key federal permit

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico –  The U.S. government approved a key permit Tuesday that helps pave the way for construction of a waste-to-energy plant in Puerto Rico that local environmentalists have long opposed.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency awarded New York-based Energy Answers International an air permit to operate a 77-megawatt facility in the northern coastal town of Arecibo. It would be the U.S. territory's largest recycling plant if approved.
Other permits are still pending for a facility that would generate enough power to serve more than 76,000 homes in five municipalities a day.
"We are very, very pleased," project director Mark Green said in a phone interview. "It is probably the most demanding of all the permits that the project needs to secure."
If approved, the $650 million facility would be built in three years, generate some 3,800 jobs and have a capacity to process more than 2,100 tons (1,900 metric tons) of garbage a day.
It's the first time a waste-to-energy facility in Puerto Rico has received such a permit, said Jose Font, the EPA director for the Caribbean. He said the agency reviewed 3,000 public comments before issuing its decision.
Members of an Arecibo-based coalition that oppose the project plan to appeal the EPA's decision, saying they are worried about contamination. The coalition has held weekly protests in front of the mayor's office for more than two years in a push to block the project.
"We feel this project is a serious threat to the health of people in Arecibo and the island," said Angel Gonzalez, a coalition member and president of the public and environmental health committee of Puerto Rico's Association of Surgeons.
The coalition recently celebrated a decision by Puerto Rico's Justice Department to annul the government's contract with Energy Answers International for legal reasons. Green, however, said that company lawyers are fighting the decision and expect to succeed.
Environmental consultant Alexis Molinares said the facility would use waste produced at home, receiving everything collected by municipal and private garbage trucks that is not recyclable. The energy created would then be sold to the state-owned power company, he said.
The EPA's announcement comes as Puerto Rico prepares to close several landfills as it runs out of space for garbage, with the island producing an estimated 10,000 tons (9,000 metric tons) of garbage a day. Puerto Rico has some 30 landfills, but government officials have said that only about five meet local and federal standards.
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Nicaragua approving massive canal project

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MANAGUA, Nicaragua — A $40 billion plan to plow a massive rival to the Panama Canal across the middle of Nicaragua is headed for approval by the country's leftist-controlled National Assembly. It caps a lightning-fast approval process that has provoked deep skepticism among shipping experts and intense concern among environmentalists.
The assembly dominated by President Daniel Ortega's Sandinista Front is expected to vote Thursday to grant a 50-year concession for the canal to a Hong Kong-based company whose only previous experience appears to be in telecommunications.
Ortega's backers say the Chinese project will transform one of the region's poorest countries by turning a centuries-old dream of a Nicaraguan trans-ocean canal into reality, bringing tens of thousands of jobs to the country.

Feds announce recovery of missing Nazi diary

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WILMINGTON, Del. — Federal authorities say they have recovered hundreds of pages from the wartime diary of Alfred Rosenberg, a Nazi party official and key adviser to Adolf Hitler.
Officials from the Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department planned to join representatives of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Thursday to discuss the recovery of some 400 handwritten pages from the diary.
Rosenberg was convicted of war crimes at the Nuremberg trials after World War II and was executed in 1946.
Officials said the diary was among several documents kept by Robert M.W. Kempner, a government lawyer during the Nuremberg trials. Kempner died in 1993, and museum officials later took possession of some of his document collection. But the Rosenberg diary remained missing until recently.
Acting upon information they received last November about the diary, authorities recently seized the missing pages after locating them in upstate New York.
“The roughly 400 pages of loose-leaf paper cover the years 1936 through 1944, when Rosenberg was responsible for looting valuables in lands occupied by the Nazis and planning Nazi rule of conquered Soviet territories,” museum officials said in a Web posting Thursday. “Its discovery will undoubtedly give scholars new insight into the politics of Nazi leaders and fulfills a museum commitment to uncover evidence from perpetrators of the Holocaust.”
Authorities said the information that led to the recovery of the diary came from an art security specialist who was working for the Holocaust museum.
Officials said the diary was transferred to the Department of Homeland Security office in Wilmington. The museum’s director of applied research scholars, Jurgen Matthaus, confirmed it was the Rosenberg diary.
Rosenberg, a Nazi ideologue and propagandist, was the author of “The Myth of the Twentieth Century,” a 1930 book espousing the superiority of Aryan culture.
He later led the Nazi Party’s foreign affairs department and rose through the party hierarchy to become Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories in 1941.
“As Reich Minister, Rosenberg played a significant role in the mass murder of the Jewish people in the Occupied Eastern Territories, as well as the deportation of civilians to forced labor camps to support the German war effort,” authorities said Thursday.

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Forbes - Giovanni Rodriguez: It felt, on the surface, like Silicon Valley. But we were in San Juan, 2013. It’s a place that’s like no other. - Puerto Rico to Create a New Place for Itself in the Global Creative Economy

» The Third Plaza: Puerto Rico Creates a New Place for Itself in the Americas - Forbes
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The Third Plaza: Puerto Rico Creates a New Place for Itself in the Americas Forbes In 1918 – 20 years after Puerto Rico became an incorporated territory of the United States – four siblings banded together in San Juan to acquire 527 acres ..

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The Third Plaza: Puerto Rico Creates a New Place for Itself in the Global ... Forbes The bill — introduced by Senators Ramón Luis Nieves and José Nadal-Power — seeks to direct the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company (PRIDCO) to crea..



"The Third Plaza": Puerto Rico to Create a New Place for Itself in the Global Creative Economy

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@giorodriguez : The Puerto Rican Senate files a bill to support the “creative industries.” What will this mean in the long term?
San Juan at the turn of the 20th Century
In 1918 – 20 years after Puerto Rico became an incorporated territory of the United States – four siblings banded together in San Juan to acquire 527 acres of land from Count of Santurce, whose title and authority (what then remained of it) came from the Spanish Crown.  The Fonalledas slowly began converting the fields from sugar cane to a dairy business. They were wildly successful.  But as they grew, so did the city of San Juan, and by the 1950s – near the beginning of a huge effort by the US government to invest in the Puerto Rican economy — the family got another idea:  to build the largest mall in Latin America on their property.  Plaza Las Americas – known to locals simply as “Plaza” — opened in September 1968.  I was there shortly after, on vacation with my uncle Israel, who could never resist taking part in big moments in popular culture. The 1960’s were loaded with such moments.  Four years earlier, he had taken me to the World’s Fair.
Today, the story of the Fonalledas is both quaint and inspiring.  Both literally and metaphorically, it is a story of the evolution of Puerto Rico from a colonial economy that looked inward to a consumereconomy that looks outward, though some might argue fairly that the colonial in part remains.  But I thought about the Fonalledas – and their creation, Plaza – and this week when I heard about a bill introduced in the Puerto Senate to support the “creative industries.”  The bill — introduced by Senators Ramón Luis Nieves and José Nadal-Power — seeks to direct the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company (PRIDCO) to create a plan for promoting and developing these industries – design, the arts, media, and creative services – in Puerto Rico.  It’s part of a grander vision for the future of Puerto Rico that’s shared by an emerging ecosystem of leaders in government (including the senators who introduced the bill, the creative community (including innovation consultant Dana Montenegro and entrepreneur Ricardo Burgos, who gave a talk in January that inspired the bill), and the tech community (Burgos again, Ramphis Castro, Marcos Polanco, many others).  The vision:  the emergence of Puerto Rico as a creative hub in the Americas.   It struck me:  if the Count of Santurce’s property defined Puerto Rico’s place in the world in the 19th century colonial economy, and Plazaredefined Puerto Rico’s place in the 20th century consumer economy, this new Puerto Rican hub — which again centers on San Juan — might define Puerto Rico’s place in the 21st century, at a time when the creative economy throughout the world appears to be driving the creation of jobs, wealth, and other opportunities.
Some say the vision is grand. Others – predictably – say it’s grandiose. Me =  I agree the idea is ambitious, but entirely possible for at least three reasons.
The Way of the World
For, and most obvious, the creative economy is a global phenomenon, and it’s smart for Puerto Rico to be looking at ways to engage the world that surrounds it.  As I have written before, in a world that’s increasingly networked, no man is an island, and no island is an island.  This sentiment predated the current era; the Fonalledas vision for a plaza of the “Americas” – not just Puerto Rico – was an outward-facing look.  But in the current era, a focus on creative industries will help Puerto Rico to better leverage its most important national resource:  its youth.  Each fall, Puerto Rico sends thousands of talented students to American colleges.  Many never return because there’s little work.  By focusing on entrepreneurship, job creation, and urban infrastructure (a bright spot in San Juan isEl Tren Urbano, a rail system that’s helping to promote urban life and work), Puerto Rico will pave a road for many to come back.  Just as important, it will help create the conditions for many to stay.  For one of the tenets of the creative economy movement is that these industries create wealth and work for so many people because of their ability to generate intellectual property.   And it’s a wide range of professions that are touched.  According to Burgos, design includes graphical, industrial design, fashion, and interiors.  Arts include music, visual arts, performing arts, and publications.  Media includes app development, video games, online media, digital content, and multimedia.  Services include creative education, architecture, and social media. The point = you can find many of these entrepreneurial opportunities and jobs today in Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, and Austin – places where many young Puerto Ricans are migrating today. The vision for San Juan is to become one of those cities, or the next of those cities — the next creative hub.
An emerging ecosystem
As I observed in a longer post several weeks, what makes this such an interesting time in the history of Puerto Rico is that the different players that need to work together are becoming better known to one another.  And they are in fact learning to work together.  News of the bill this week – the result of collaboration between citizens and government – follows two recent events:  a summit for leaders on the island and the Puerto Rican diaspora (I am co-founder of <a href="http://Parranda.org" rel="nofollow">Parranda.org</a>, the sponsoring organization for that event) and the Puerto Rican Tech Summit.    Both events drew deep participation from leaders in government, business, and the non-profit sector.  And both events created commitments for working on collaborative projects.   It will take more than a village to address Puerto Rico’s many problems not to mention its ambitions.  But the villagers are now getting to know one other much better, and they are rolling up their sleeves and getting to work.
The permission to think big
And it’s the “getting to work” that is so infectious, and converting new believers to the Puerto Rican cause.  Because if there’s one obstacle that has stood in the way of progress for Puerto Ricans is the permission to think big.  Part of this is the humility of our people (not true of all Puerto Ricans, but true of so many).  Part of it has to do with our colonial past; it’s not easy to think big when your historical/institutional memory gets you down.  But part of it is our relative lack of experience in just trying to get things started.   In my article about the Puerto Rico Tech Summit, I lauded the virtues of hacker culture; it teaches us to work iteratively, experimentally, without shame of failure.  And in the final analysis, that’s what will give us true permission to think big … the confidence gained by trying.

Roberto González Nieves - News Review - 12/06/13 11:19: Puerto Rico: el Vaticano exonera al arzobispo de San Juan - Great News for San Juan National Catholic Reporter

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Great News for San Juan National Catholic Reporter (blog) Vatican Insider has the story -- alas, not in English -- about the complete exoneration of Archbishop Roberto Gonzalez Nieves of San Juan , Puerto Rico . This is very good news for ..
» Great News for San Juan - National Catholic Reporter (blog)
12/06/13 11:19 from roberto gonzález nieves - Google News
Great News for San Juan National Catholic Reporter (blog) Vatican Insider has the story -- alas, not in English -- about the complete exoneration of Archbishop Roberto Gonzalez Nieves of San Juan, Puerto Rico. This is very good news for th..
» Puerto Rico: el Vaticano exonera al arzobispo de San Juan - InfoCatólica
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Puerto Rico: el Vaticano exonera al arzobispo de San Juan InfoCatólica Así las cosas, el 2 de junio Roberto González Nieves emitió un decreto con el cual instruyó el establecimiento de la “Capilla del Santísimo Cristo de toda la nación pue..

Legislature approved a measure to extend benefits to health plan partners, including same-sex couples

On Wednesday the House of Representatives passed the amendment to the 1178 Draft Insurance Code of Puerto Rico to include all types of cohabiting couples, including same-sex couples...

 ...the project is expected to pass without problems in the Senate and will become a law with the governor's signature...


Celebran más proyectos que benefician comunidad gay

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 JUAN – El portavoz de la organización Heterosexuales Por la Igualdad, José Rodríguez Irizarry celebró el jueves la aprobación en la Legislatura de una medida para extender beneficios de plan médico a parejas de hecho, incluyendo parejas del mismo sexo. “En menos de un mes, con este son tres los proyectos de Ley que se aprueban a favor de los derechos civiles tanto de la Comunidad LGBTT como del resto de la ciudadanía puertorriqueña. En muchos casos, el acceso a la salud significa vivir, así que entendemos que con este paso, poco a poco nos vamos acercando al Puerto Rico inclusivo y justo que deseamos”, declaró Rodríguez Irizarry en declaraciones escritas.
“El acceso a la salud es una de las luchas de derechos civiles más arduas de nuestros tiempos. Que se haya aprobado este proyecto sin enmiendas nos encamina a ser una sociedad más justa”, dijo
Las expresiones surgen luego que el miércoles se aprobó en la Cámara de Representantes el Proyecto 1178 que enmienda el Código de Seguros de Puerto Rico para que se incluya a todo tipo de parejas cohabitantes, incluyendo a las del mismo sexo, en las cubiertas privadas de planes médicos.
Según Rodríguez Irizarry, el proyecto pasó incluso después de gritos de indignación de la minoría del PNP tras derrotarse su enmienda para que sólo se incluyera a parejas heterosexuales.
“Ya son demasiadas las ocasiones en que irracionalmente y sin fundamentos pertinentes, los legisladores del Partido Nuevo Progresista, y algunos del Partido Popular, intentan trabar que toda la ciudadanía puertorriqueña goce igualdad en derechos por razón de su orientación sexual o identidad de género. La Casa de las Leyes no es lugar para predicar creencias religiosas ni buscar oportunismo político, es el lugar para proteger a través del ordenamiento a toda la población de acuerdo a la realidad social”, dijo Rodríguez Irizarry.
El portavoz de la organización dijo se espera que el Proyecto pase sin problemas su visita al Senado, y se convierta en ley con la firma del gobernador, Alejandro García Padilla...