Blogante News + Puerto Rico Hispanic y Latino News & Info (Noticias)
November 19, 2009
Murder charges were filed Wednesday in the slaying of a gay teenager, Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado, whose decapitated, partially burned body was found last week, while U.S. authorities said they were still considering whether to make it a hate crime case. – Puerto Rico
November 12, 2009
Literanista: The LOST TAINO TRIBE Documentary
November 11, 2009
Puerto Rico’s National Strike: “Peaceful Insurrection” Against the Wall Street Bankers
November 9, 2009
Facing Economic Crisis, Citizen Organizations in the United States, Puerto Rico, and Mexico Fight Back Against Structural Adjustment
A Colony by Any Other Name is Still a Colony – Puerto Rico
November 2, 2009
FBI: No sabotage in Puerto Rico tank explosion
October 30, 2009
LULAC Hails the Inclusion of Puerto Rico in the House Healthcare Bill
October 14, 2009
A needle exchange program in Puerto Rico is testing a vending machine that provides drug users with clean syringes after-hours to fight the spread of HIV and hepatitis C.
October 12, 2009
PUERTO RICO IN CRISIS … A message from Hiram Rivera Marcano
September 30, 2009
Hundreds of U.S. and local agents swept into a town in southern Puerto Rico on Tuesday to break up violent drug rings accused of operating out of several public housing projects.
September 24, 2009
The reform of the Puerto Rican legislature currently underway seeks to reduce by almost half the number of lawmakers, one of the chief objectives of the administration of Gov. Luis Fortuño.
Efrain’s Corner: El Grito de Lares, Puerto Rico
September 15, 2009
Several employees of American Airlines were among a group of at least 20 people arrested Tuesday on suspicion of aiding a smuggling ring that shipped drugs from Puerto Rico’s main airport to the U.S. mainland.
August 21, 2009
Government of Puerto Rico and Together Rx Access Join Forces to Improve Prescription Access for Uninsured Residents
August 13, 2009
A jury in U.S. federal court has convicted four Puerto Rican police officers in the beating death of a man in their custody.
August 10, 2009
Authorities charged an FBI agent with negligent homicide on Friday in the alleged “friendly fire” shooting death of a Puerto Rican policeman during a gunbattle with kidnappers last year.
August 4, 2009
2009 Kids Count Data Book Finds that Child Well-Being in Puerto Rico is at Greater Risk than in the Mainland U.S.
August 3, 2009
Michigan State University has received a $1.5 million federal grant to work with the University of Puerto Rico-Cayey to increase the number of Hispanic doctoral students in neuroscience
July 15, 2009
Sotomayor is mum on Puerto Rico statehood vs. independence
July 14, 2009
Puerto Rico reports 1st swine flu death
July 13, 2009
Creative Protest to Say No to Privatization of Puerto Rico’s Beaches
New Pew Hispanic Fact Sheet: Puerto Ricans in the United States, 2007 – Some 4.1 million Puerto Ricans resided in the US in 2007
June 29, 2009
Labor Secretary Solis to Attend year’s top Hispanic Convention | LULAC
National Puerto Rican Coalition Frames Its Upcoming Public Policy Agenda
June 25, 2009
Puerto Rico Governor Presses for Referendum on Political Status
June 23, 2009
Stand-Up Comedian Marga Gomez to Perform “Long Island Iced Latina” During NAHJ Opening Plenary
June 22, 2009
The Miss Puerto Rico Petite competition stripped the reigning queen of her crown Friday, accusing the young woman of “intolerable conduct” that included threatening and assaulting pageant staff.
June 19, 2009
NAHJ Convention to Discuss Walking the Tightrope: Challenges Faced by the Media in Venezuela
June 5, 2009
El dúo Calle 13 y la ex Miss Universo Denise Quiñones marcharon el viernes en Puerto Rico como parte de una protesta por los miles de empleados públicos despedidos por la administración del gobernador Luis Fortuño.
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.
May 14, 2009
NAHJ to Induct Geraldo Rivera, Ysabel Duron and Juan Gonzales Into Hall of Fame – Award-Winner Pioneers to Be Inducted During NAHJ Multimedia Convention in Puerto Rico
May 7, 2009
Teacher’s Day in Puerto Rico is no longer a paid holiday for teachers. The Department of Education says some 43,000 teachers will work all commemorative days for the next two years, including the day that honors their profession.
April 11, 2009
EPA may add Puerto Rico plant to Superfund list – Papelera Puertorriquena Inc. plant in the mountainous town of Utuado may have polluted soil and a river with industrial chemicals including ethyl acetate and isopropanol.
March 19, 2009
Puerto Rico’s west coast: Beaches, byways, coquis
March 17, 2009
Attorneys fighting corruption charges against former Puerto Rico Gov. Anibal Acevedo Vila surprised a judge Tuesday by announcing they would not present any witnesses in his defense.
March 16, 2009
Proyecto para incentivar historia oral en Puerto Rico
March 11, 2009
El mundo en la cocina de Puerto Rico
February 1, 2009
En una visita relámpago a la isla, el presidente mexicano Felipe Calderón se reunió con el gobernador de Puerto Rico, Luis Fortuño, y miembros de su gabinete para discutir posibles alianzas económicas y la ampliación de rutas aéreas entre ambos países.
January 28, 2009
El Senado de Puerto Rico ordenó el miércoles investigar al aspirante a dirigir la Oficina del Comisionado de Seguros, Ramón Cruz, por haber sido multado por la dependencia que quedaría bajo su cargo cuando trabajaba para una aseguradora privada.
Puerto Rico is joining a growing list of U.S. places refusing to take in any detainees from the Guantánamo Bay prison camps.
January 26, 2009
Affordable Caribbean: Puerto Rico
January 23, 2009
Puertorriqueños se despiden de ‘Cheguí’ Torres
January 21, 2009
Former light-heavyweight world champion, Olympic silver medalist and author Jose Torres died Monday of a heart attack at his home in Puerto Rico at the age of 72, his wife, Ramonita, said.
December 28, 2008
Unos 500 policías velarán por la seguridad en los actos de toma de posesión del nuevo gobernador de Puerto Rico, Luis Fortuño, del próximo viernes, 2 de enero.
December 23, 2008
Cazan monos en Puerto Rico para evitar infecciones
December 15, 2008
The possible admission of Puerto Rico as a new state of the United States and other options in relation to the Commonwealth’s status will not be discussed until the island’s financial situation has been straightened out, said the territory’s Secretary of State designate, Senate President Kenneth McClintock.
December 12, 2008
Comunicado de Prensa: Convención Nacional y Exposición LULAC en San Juán, Puerto Rico.
Las autoridades puertorriqueñas intensificaron el miércoles la búsqueda de un felino salvaje que anda suelto desde hace días en el barrio más grande de la capital y que ha devorado varios animales domésticos a su paso.
Testing gap in Puerto Rico stirs translation feud
El puertorriqueño Juan Meléndez, que pasó diecisiete años, ocho meses y un día en una prisión esperando a ser ejecutado por un crimen que no cometió, relató hoy a Efe cómo se vive en el corredor de la muerte.
December 3, 2008
Tradition Counts More Than Beauty at a Pageant in Puerto Rico
December 2, 2008
Aumenta campaña por presos políticos en Puerto Rico
November 25, 2008
Old U.S. Navy base now a Puerto Rico airport – Jose Aponte de la Torre Airport
November 19, 2008
Puerto Rico in political brawl about gays
Puerto Rico: triunfo de Fortuño no es mandato de anexión
November 18, 2008
Las autoridades estadounidenses buscaban el lunes a unos 40 inmigrantes dominicanos que se cree desaparecieron en las aguas entre República Dominicana y Puerto Rico mientras viajaban de manera ilegal hacia suelo puertorriqueño.
FBI agent named Puerto Rico’s next police chief -José Figueroa Sancha
November 12, 2008
Fortuno Taps McClintock for Secretary of State of Puerto Rico
November 3, 2008
Los puertorriqueños acuden a las urnas el martes en momentos en que se cuestiona la integridad moral de los dos principales candidatos a la gobernación, el autonomista Aníbal Acevedo Vilá y el anexionista Luis Fortuño.
October 27, 2008
Mayra Matos, la nueva Miss Puerto Rico Universe
October 15, 2008
Fox Sports Español Previews National League Championship Series and World Series Available on Dish Network in Puerto Rico
October 2, 2008
Corrupción salpica debate de candidatos a gobernador en Puerto Rico
September 25, 2008
Puerto Rico Domestic Violence Shelter Receives Part of a $3 Million Grant to Help Combat Domestic Violence
September 21, 2008
Census Bureau to Hold Online News Briefing on Embargoed 2007 Puerto Rico Community Survey Data
Smithsonian Latin Center Pays Tribute to Puerto Rican Culture
September 12, 2008
Puerto Rico Film Screening-Benefit For FMPR Puerto Rican Teachers
August 17, 2008
Taking the kids to Puerto Rico Accidental tourists find an island filled with natural attractions
August 14, 2008
Puerto Rican party says Spanish-only ballots unfair
Un partido político de Puerto Rico buscará que el tribunal federal ordene que sean traducidas al inglés las papeletas para las elecciones de gobernador, legislativas y municipales de noviembre
Puerto Rican McJoe Arrooyo lost in the first round of Olympic boxing
August 9, 2008
Primera victoria boricua – El villalbeño Carlos Negrón vence al iraní Mendi Ghorbani en su debut en el boxeo olímpico.
July 30, 2008
Authorities say a former official with a Cuban-American group that was once the foremost voice representing the exile cause in Washington was shot dead in a Puerto Rican suburb. – Emiliano Infante Segrera
July 28, 2008
Puerto Rico’s environmental activists gain power A growing environmental movement is stopping more and more development projects that critics say threaten natural resources.
July 14, 2008
Animal activists criticize Puerto Rico government’s plans for long-awaited shelter
Smithsonian Takes Us to Puerto Rico
July 10, 2008
Six San Juan Municipal Police Department Officers Indicted for Federal Civil Rights Violations in the Death of a Puerto Rico Man
June 24, 2008
Federal Grand Juries Subpoenas as a Means of Intimidating the Rican Freedom Movement » VivirLatino
June 12, 2008
US probes how horses injured on boat to Puerto Rico
June 4, 2008
Have a Puerto Rican question? Ask El Boricuazo – Jesús Omar Rivera
Lajas town readies for New York spotlight
May 28, 2008
SEIU Urged: End Attacks Against Puerto Rico Teachers
May 20, 2008
Q&A: Puerto Rico politician wants to see island become 51st state – Kenneth D. McClintock, president of the Senate of Puerto Rico
May 8, 2008
Puerto Rico begins to send out federal economic incentive payments
May 1, 2008
Fourth Annual ACLU Congress On Civil Liberties In Puerto Rico Begins Today
April 29, 2008
Puerto Rico approves Acevedo candidacy
April 16, 2008
No bail for Puerto Rican nationalist accused in robbery
March 31, 2008
Puerto Rico party creates fund to ease court costs for indicted Gov.
March 27, 2008
Puerto Rico governor (and demorcratic superdelegate) Anibal Acevedo Vila indicted on federal criminal charges – On Deadline – USATODAY.com
March 24, 2008
Puerto Rico to resume winter baseball season after a year-long shutdown
March 20, 2008
Puerto Rico braces for 30-foot waves
March 6, 2008
Puerto Ricans: ‘Foreign in a domestic sense’ – commentary on Congresswoman Ginny Brown-Waite remarks
February 28, 2008
Strike Deals Blow to Puerto Rico Schools
February 18, 2008
Thousands of Puerto Rican teachers stage protest over wages, working conditions
February 13, 2008
Puerto Rican May Be Extradited to Connecticut
January 24, 2008
Puerto Rico gov. allows referendum against gay marriage
December 11, 2007
Sick of monkeys running amok, Puerto Rico sends some to Florida
Purdue Announces Partnership with Puerto Rican University
November 13, 2007
Puerto Rico gives Cotto a hero’s welcome after defending WBA welterweight title
Puerto Rico governor meets with political allies as US corruption probe nears end
Boro Beat: Futuro calls some to Puerto Rico while others party here – New York
November 11, 2007
Govener Spitzer’s Courtesy Call in Puerto Rico
November 4, 2007
Large Ancient Settlement Unearthed in Puerto Rico
