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

March 25, 2008

Puerto Rico Moves Up Primary – (switches from caucus to primary)

March 20, 2008

A Puerto Rican Poets Fight With Alzheimers – Jack Agüeros

March 18, 2008

Bilingual teachers wanted – Boston schools recruiting in Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico Painter Rafael Tufino Dies at 85

March 11, 2008

Puerto Rico statehood champion quitting politics – Sen. Pedro Rossello

March 6, 2008

Puerto Rican Teachers Suspend Strike

February 28, 2008

Tough lessons from mean streets in Puerto Rico program

February 27, 2008

In Puerto Rico, teachers march before Education Department as island petitions for order ending strike

February 26, 2008

Puerto Rico teachers strike sparks clashes, arrests – At least 7 people are arrested in Puerto Rico as colleagues face off with one another.

February 25, 2008

Obama pledges self-determination to Puerto Rico – with independence as an option

Puerto Rico’s Political Melodrama Plays On, With Its Governor in the Lead Role

Puerto Rico looming large in DNC

February 21, 2008

Teachers strike begins in Puerto Rico with clashes between police and demonstrators

February 18, 2008

Puerto Rico’s Second City Steps Out – Ponce

Baseball falters in Puerto Rico – Interest in the sport is steadily declining in the birthplace of Clemente and many others who became major league stars.

February 11, 2008

”There’s so much anti-immigrant and anti-Hispanic sentiment out there, and this just feeds into it even more,” said Millie Herrera, president of the state Democratic Hispanic Caucus. “We are giving her a week and then we will escalate. We’re not going to drop this.” – about U.S. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite Puerto Rican ‘foreigner’ comment

Daily Kos: Did You Know Puerto Rico Could Determine Our Presidential Nominee?

February 7, 2008

Trial Ordered In Puerto Rican Pet Massacre, Animal Cruelty Charges Filed In Case Where 80 Pets Were Thrown Off Of A 50 Ft. Bridge

February 4, 2008

Puerto Rico Home of Deadly Syndrome – world’s highest incidence of a fatal type of albinism

FBI Witch Hunt Stokes Puerto Rican Independence Movement – As an anti-terror task force targets three young Puerto Ricans in New York, people take to the streets.

January 30, 2008

U.S. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite calls Puerto Ricans ‘foreign,’ shouldn’t get rebate

Did You Know? Puerto Ricans were granted American citizenship in 1917.

Did You Know? The starting salary for a teacher in Puerto Rico is $19,200 — lower than any U.S. state and about a third less than the average on the mainland.

Teachers Threaten Strike in Puerto Rico

Author details contributions of Puerto Ricans – Tony Santiago

January 29, 2008

Puerto Rican Independence Movement under Attack in New York and San Juan

January 16, 2008

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

January 14, 2008

HIV in Puerto Rico from a Puerto Rican perspective

December 11, 2007

Puerto Rico to improve treatment of animals after international condemnation, tourism loss

December 4, 2007

No pepper spray found in Puerto Rico pageant case

The Fantastic Four are going to Puerto Rico to battle the legendary Chupacabras

Miami Tadpoles Heading To New Home In Puerto Rico

November 20, 2007

Drug plant closings leave Puerto Rico feeling sick

November 15, 2007

Activists “Die-In” to Save Lives in Puerto Rico

November 14, 2007

Pet Massacres Carried Out in Puerto Rico

November 13, 2007

Tapping Hispanic market, Puerto Rican universities branch out in Central Florida

October 23, 2007

A senator’s Puerto Rican friendship draws scrutiny

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)

Did You Know? In 1936, 6.5 percent of Puerto Rican women had been sterilized. By 1953, 20 percent of women had the operation. By 1980, one-third of the women on the island had been sterilized.

September 30, 2007

Visitors to Puerto Rico scoop up castoff dogs

Army recruiters faced with protesters in Puerto Rico

Did You Know? Pentagon statistics show 37 service members from the island (Puerto Rico) have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Anti-war groups say the figure exceeds 80, including Puerto Ricans based on the U.S. mainland.

September 15, 2007

Puerto Rican independence activist gets island citizenship ID – Juan Mari Bras

September 12, 2007

More than 50 years of Puerto Rican fine art is surveyed in “Puerto Rican Art: Image of a Culture” on view through Oct. 28 at the Orlando Museum of Art.

August 21, 2007

Puerto Rico Winter League folds – Financial hardship dooms 69-year-old organization

August 9, 2007

Film vindicates forgotten World War II Boricua fighters

July 30, 2007

Puerto Rico party seeks UN aid on status