Latinas + Puerto Rico Hispanic y Latino News & Info (Noticias)

August 27, 2009

Crawford & Company Names Jeannette Barrios Manager in Puerto Rico

August 7, 2009

For Puerto Ricans, Sotomayor’s Success Stirs Pride

June 29, 2009

Labor Secretary Solis to Attend year’s top Hispanic Convention | LULAC

June 18, 2009

Podcast – Caridad Fernandez is a true Latina Beauty. Professional model, and founder, president and CEO of Unica – Centro de Refinamiento, the largest modeling agency in Puerto Rico

May 30, 2009

Puerto Rico Sun Radio chats with boricua actress Jazmin Caratini

May 27, 2009

Supreme Court nominee Sonya Sotomayor wrote as a Yale Law School student that Puerto Rico should maintain its seabed rights if it pursues U.S. statehood.

December 10, 2008

Ivy Queen Gives Away FREE Breast Exams In Puerto Rico

December 5, 2008

Lucía González and Lulu Delacre, author and illustrator of The Storyteller’s Candle / La velita de los cuentos, celebrate the remarkable efforts of New York City’s first Latina librarian, Pura Belpré, in her native Puerto Rico.

December 3, 2008

Tradition Counts More Than Beauty at a Pageant in Puerto Rico

November 20, 2008

La puertorriqueña Amelia de Jesús, es un ejemplo de que no hay que ser rico para ayudar: con su modesto sueldo como trabajadora postal compra comida a niños y jóvenes drogadictos en Puerto Rico.

October 27, 2008

Mayra Matos, la nueva Miss Puerto Rico Universe

August 14, 2008

Illinois siblings swim for Puerto Rico – Kristina and Doug Lennox-Silva – Being Olympians together a helpful boost for both

February 28, 2008

Tough lessons from mean streets in Puerto Rico program

January 16, 2008

Soccer’s Rodriguez Earns Playing Time With Puerto Rican National Team – Houston sophomore joined team for Olympic qualifying run

January 9, 2008

Arrests imminent in Puerto Rican beauty pageant pepper plot

December 6, 2007

Puerto Rico Police Probe Pageant Dispute

December 4, 2007

Aixa Diaz Revisits Her Puerto Rican Hometown – Orlando

No pepper spray found in Puerto Rico pageant case

October 9, 2007

QUOTE: “They built 160 sterilization clinics,” Rosie Perez said. “The women would work a full day and then get sterilized and be back at work the next day. They told the women they were doing their patriotic duty; they didn’t tell them the procedure could not be reversed.” – (this did happen in Puerto Rico, I recently learned)

October 1, 2007

La Operación documents sterilization – a film about the systematic sterilization of Puerto Rican women by their government, often without their knowledge – Operation Bootstrap 30s to the 80s (I had no idea)