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	Wikipedia: Puerto Rico
		The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is an archipelago in the eastern Caribbean of autonomous politics, in free association with the United States.
		Puerto Rico is part of the Greater Antilles, located to the east of the Dominican Republic and to the west of the Lesser Antilles.
		The government is composed of 3 branches: the Executive branch headed by the Governor, the Legislative branch consisting of a bicameral Legislative Assembly (a Senate and a House of Representatives) and the Judicial branch.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/p/pu/puerto_rico.html (1005 words)

	PRFAA - About Puerto Rico
		Puerto Rico's relationship with the U.S. Federal Government, as defined by the Constitution of 1952, is in many respects, similar to that of any other state.
		The executive branch, whose mission is to oversee and implement legislative mandates, is represented and headed by the Island's governor, currently the Honorable Aníbal Acevedo-Vilá.
		The House of Representatives is composed of 51 representatives - one per electoral district and 11 elected proportionally.
	www.prfaa.com /eng/PRGovernment.asp (424 words)

	Wikinfo \| Puerto Rico (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory of the United States in the Caribbean Sea.
		Puerto Rico was invaded by the United States in the Spanish-American War on July 25, 1898 with a landing at Guánica Bay.
		Puerto Rico has an elected Resident Commissioner, who sits in Congress as a delegate of the people of Puerto Rico; the delegate may speak in the House of Representatives and serve in committees but may not vote.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Puerto_Rico (2329 words)

	Puerto Rico Government (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Puerto Rico is a self-governing commonwealth in association with the United States.
		The major differences between Puerto Rico and the 50 states are its local taxation system and exemption from Internal Revenue Code, its lack of voting representation in either house of the U.S. Congress, the ineligibility of Puerto Ricans to vote in presidential elections, and its lack of assignation of some revenues reserved for the states.
		Puerto Rico is considered one of the highest records of voter participation in election processes in the world.
	welcome.topuertorico.org /government.shtml (1341 words)

	World Almanac for Kids
		Puerto Rico is one of the larger islands of the West Indies, and the commonwealth also includes several small islands, such as Culebra, Mona, and Vieques.
		Puerto Rico’s highest tribunal, the supreme court, is composed of a chief justice and six associate justices, who serve until the age of 70.
		Puerto Rico is represented by a nonvoting resident delegate in the U.S. Congress.
	www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/states/puertorico.html (3436 words)

	Puerto Rico Moves Toward U.S. Voting
		SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) - Two days after a federal court ruled Puerto Rico residents were illegally denied the right to vote in U.S. presidential elections, the U.S. territory's Senate approved a bill Thursday aimed at bringing the island into the November presidential election.
		Puerto Rico's House of Representatives was expected to approve the proposal Tuesday, and Gov. Pedro Rossello was expected to quickly sign it into law.
		Puerto Rico was colonized by Spain in the 1500s and was ceded to the United States in 1898, after the Spanish-American War.
	www.englishfirst.org /puerto/puertopresvotereuters83100.htm (635 words)

	Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Puerto Rico (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Puerto Rico adopted its own constitution in 1952 which adopted the name "commonwealth" for the body politic and which is used by many as the name of Puerto Rico's current relationship with the United States.
		Under the 1952 constitution, Puerto Rico is a Commonwealth and is permitted a degree of autonomy similar to that of a state of the Union.
		Puerto Ricans living on the island are not counted among the Hispanics residing in the U.S.; in fact, they are not included in the U.S. population count at all, although all Puerto Ricans are statutory U.S. citizens.
	www.blinkbits.com /blinks/puerto_rico (5513 words)

	Constitution of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico shall be republican in form and its legislative, judicial and executive branches as established by this Constitution shall be equally subordinate to the sovereignty of the people of Puerto Rico.
		No Senator or Representative may, during the term for which he was elected or chosen, be appointed to any civil office in the Government of Puerto Rico, its municipalities or instrumentalities, which shall have been created or the salary of which shall have been increased during said term.
		The House of Representatives shall have exclusive power to initiate impeachment proceedings and, with the concurrence of two-thirds of the total number of members of which it is composed, to bring an indictment.
	welcome.topuertorico.org /constitu.html (6369 words)

	House of Representatives of Puerto Rico - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The House of Representatives of Puerto Rico (Cámara de Representantes de Puerto Rico) is the lower house of the Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico, larger than the Senate.
		In order to elect the members of the House, Puerto Rico is divided into forty representative districts.
		Article VIII of the Constitution of Puerto Rico divides Puerto Rico into eight senatorial districts, each one of them composed of five of the aforementioned representative districts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/House_of_Representatives_of_Puerto_Rico (240 words)

	Politics of Puerto Rico - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Puerto Rico has a territorial judiciary including a Supreme Court, Appellate Court, and a Court of First Instance composed of two sections: a Superior Court and a Municipal Court (justices for all these courts appointed by the Governor with the consent of the Senate).
		The House of Delegates was elected directly by the voters (male, propertied)and the equivalent to the Senate was the Cabinet appointed by the Governor and by the President of the United States.
		The major differences between Puerto Rico and the states are greater financial autonomy (it levies its own taxes and is exempt from the Internal Revenue Code), its lack of voting representation in either house of the Congress and the ineligibility of Puerto Rican residents to vote in presidential elections.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Puerto_Rico (4227 words)

	PUERTO RICO HERALD: Political Cronies Crowd House Payroll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Budget experts for the incoming Calderón administration, not to mention the House Finance Committee, had earlier this year raised the alarm that the commonwealth budget was in terrible shape.
		The worried chairman of the House Finance Committee declared the government of Puerto Rico to be "almost bankrupt."
		So grim the picture appeared to be that when it came time to balance the budget for the start of the new fiscal year on July 1, most every agency in government had to take an unheard-of 5 percent cut -- except for the Legislature, and a few other favored agencies.
	www.puertorico-herald.org /issues/2001/vol5n29/PRR529-en.shtml (712 words)

	Nearly Broke, Puerto Rico on Verge of Shutdown \| Asian American Daily \| GoldSea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Puerto Ricans jammed gas stations and supermarkets amid rumors that truck drivers would go on strike to force the government to resolve the crisis.
		Puerto Rico's Department of Natural and Environmental Resources said it will stop issuing construction permits: a halt in building hotels, parking and other projects would be a blow to the tourist-based economy.
		The Puerto Rico Tourism Company said it plans to provide alternative routes for tourists during protest marches planned for Thursday and Monday, including in the colonial section of San Juan, one of Puerto Rico's top tourist destinations.
	goldsea.com /Asiagate/604/27puerto.html (780 words)

	Puerto Rico: Planning a Trip : When to Go : Calendar of Events \| Frommers.com
		When Casals died in Puerto Rico in 1973 at the age of 97, the Casals Festival was 16 years old and attracting the same class of performers who appeared at the Pablo Casals Festival in France, founded by Casals after World War II.
		When he moved to Puerto Rico in 1957 with his wife, Marta Casals Istomin (former artistic director of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts), he founded not only this festival but also the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra to foster musical development on the island.
		Commemoration of the emancipation of Puerto Rico's slaves in 1873, held at various venues.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/puertorico/0094030003.html (1329 words)

	Puerto Rico’s Sodomy Law Just “Tip of the Iceberg”
		She is an ordained minister of the predominantly gay Metropolitan Community Church of Puerto Rico, and was lead plaintiff in a legal challenge to the sodomy law brought by the ACLU.
		At the time, Puerto Rico’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender groups were all engaged in different issues; from that point on, repeal of the sodomy law became central.
		I was there as a representative of the National Ecumenical Movement of Puerto Rico, not as part of a lgbt group.
	www.sodomylaws.org /usa/puerto_rico/prnews024.htm (1475 words)

	Inter American Press Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The San Juan Star, represented by staff journalists Martin Gerard Delfin and Douglas Zher, has challenged a federal court order sealing the transcripts and sound recordings in the case of Edison Misla Aldarondo, a former speaker of Puerto Rico's House of Representatives.
		In November the House of Representatives approved a bill to give the press access once again to the record of divorce and family cases without a court order, but the bill has not passed the Senate.
		Puerto Rico's governor, Sila María Calderón, divorced businessman Adolfo Kranz after 23 years of marriage, and information leaked to the press even though the court sealed the documents under this law.
	www.sipiapa.org /pulications/mid_infpuertorico2002.cfm (545 words)

	Puerto Rico House of Representatives Congratulates Armed Forces on Their Birthday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Following partisan debate, the [Puerto Rico] House of Representatives approved a measure yesterday to congratulate the Armed Forces of the United States on their 231st anniversary.
		In a cynical tone, PPD House leader Héctor Ferrer said that the resolution may be handed to the guard posted at the entrance to Fort Buchanan [in Guaynabo].
		To imply that Puerto Rico and its inhabitants are the sole problem is to allege that they are genetically inferior and inherently inclined to being welfare cases.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1644358/posts (2784 words)

	Puerto Rico Statehood Society
		If the people of Puerto Rico elect to remain a territory, the task force recommends periodic referendums, in order to keep Congress informed of any changes in the people's wishes.
		However, there is a tough issue that many politicians in the past have succeeded in avoiding, and that pertains to the colonial status of Puerto Rico.
		Puerto Rico Statehood Society is a registered Student Organization at The George Washington University, EEO/AA.
	studentorgs.gwu.edu /prss/OurActivities (761 words)

	Puerto Rico's Methodist Leaders Confer with the GBGM on Critical Mission Issues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Ministering in a mission context that is polarized by political and economic divisions, the Methodist Church of Puerto Rico seeks to be a pastoral agent of reconciliation while providing spiritual and moral leadership.
		Bishop Vera reported that all of Puerto Rico's religious bodies, along with its labor and civic groups, were united in seeking a just and peaceful solution for Vieques and its people.
		A majority of Puerto Ricans throughout the commonwealth have demanded that the island be freed from military exercises and practice bombings so that the people of Vieques can live in peace.
	gbgm-umc.org /latinam-caribbean/puerto-rico/vieques/gbgm111500fgbm.html (861 words)

	PUERTO RICO HERALD: Misla Aldarondo Charged With Rape
		SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) - The former speaker of Puerto Rico's House of Representatives was charged with rape on Thursday for an alleged assault on a 17-year-old girl who visited his home last month.
		In a hearing that lasted most of the day, a judge found probable cause to arrest Edison Misla Aldarondo, a prominent member of the local Republican Party, on charges of rape, corrupting a minor and supplying drugs and alcohol to a minor.
		Misla, 59, resigned his House seat in January after being indicted in October by U.S. authorities in an influence-peddling scheme surrounding the sale of a government hospital while he was House speaker.
	www.armchairsubversive.com /Edison_Misla_Aldarondo.htm (351 words)

	Hispanic Americans in Congress -- Piñero (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Jesús Piñero was born in Carolina, Puerto Rico on April 16, 1897.
		The same year he was elected to the Puerto Rico House of Representatives and began a four-year term.
		In 1944 he was elected Resident Commissioner to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he served on the Committees on Agriculture, Insular and Interior Affairs, Labor, Military Affairs, Naval Affairs, and Territories.
	www.loc.gov /rr/hispanic/congress/pinero.html (317 words)

	Geography - Merriam-Webster's Atlas
		In the late 19th century, as pro-independence sentiment grew in the Caribbean islands under Spanish dominion, many activists in Cuba and Puerto Rico were exiled to the United States or elsewhere.
		The attachment of Puerto Ricans to the design, however, guaranteed its official recognition on July 25, 1952, when Puerto Rico officially became a commonwealth associated with the United States.
		The star is described as representing the commonwealth, and the white stripes stand for human rights and the freedom of the individual.
	www.merriam-webster.com /cgi-bin/nytmaps.pl?puerto_rico (320 words)

	Services & Links in Puerto Rico (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Land Administration of Puerto Rico - (An Enterprise Fund of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico) Financial statements, auditors reports, etc...
		U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico - serves as the federal trial court for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
		Puerto Rico - Sociedad y cultura antes de la invasión de las tropas estadounidenses: 1898 presented by ASPIRA.
	www.puertoricoinfo.com /ssrvindx.htm (3414 words)

	FERC: Judge Carmen A. Cintron
		In addition, she worked in the Puerto Rico House of Representatives as Legal Advisor to the Judiciary Committee on Civil Law.
		She also worked in the Clerk's office in the U.S. Federal District Court for Puerto Rico implementing the Speedy Trial Act for both the Puerto Rico and Saint Thomas Federal District Courts.
		Judge Cintron is a member of the bars of the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, and is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for Puerto Rico, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, the U.S. Ct. of Appeals for D.C. and the U.S. Supreme Court.
	www.ferc.gov /about/offices/oalj/dj/cintron.asp (345 words)

	Puerto Rican representatives present resolutions to Spanier
		The two resolutions from the Puerto Rico House of Representatives, in addition to one from the Senate, commended Spanier for the University's commitment to Puerto Rican students.
		Spanier received the award in his office in front of four students and three Puerto Rican officials, including Colon, the special assistant of the minority leader of the House of Representatives.
		Jorge de Castro Font, a member of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives, said he felt it was important for Puerto Ricans to work toward common goals, such as education.
	www.collegian.psu.edu /archive/1997/11/11-24-97tdc/11-24-97d01-011.asp (416 words)

	Services & Links in Puerto Rico (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Puerto Rico's Manufacturers Association - a private, voluntary, non-profit organization with the purpose of uniting all Puerto Rico's manufacturers, to further their mutual interests as they relate to the public and private sectors of Puerto Rico.
		Music of Puerto Rico Foundation - "The Music of Puerto Rico Foundation was incorporated in New Jersey, USA as a non-profit corporation for the purpose of serving as an educational resource on the music of Puerto Rico".
		Puerto Rico: 500 Years of Oppression - By Piri Thomas and Suzanne Dod Thomas / Berkeley, California.
	www.puertoricoinfo.com /servindx.htm (2107 words)

	Music of Puerto Rico (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This was due in part to his Puerto Rican roots but mostly to the influence of his uncle, Israel “Timbalero” Stuart, himself a professional musician and bandleader.
		But Stuart was especially influenced by Domingo Quiñones after hearing him during a live performance in Puerto Rico.
		He was chosen to play the part of Judas in the musical play Jesus Christ Superstrar along with Olga Tañón, Domingo Quiñones and Tito Auger, at the Performing Arts Center of Puerto Rico in 1998.
	www.musicofpuertorico.com /index.php/artists/michael_stuart (619 words)

	US District Court - Puerto Rico District
		While the information may be valuable, the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico does not control or guarantee the accuracy, timeliness, or completeness of this outside information.
		U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Puerto Rico
		Puerto Rico House of Representatives - Camara de Representantes de Puerto Rico
	www.prd.uscourts.gov /usdcpr/links.htm (206 words)

	Statement on Don Luis Ferre
		Don Luis Ferre was a distinguished statesman and a great American, who dedicated himself to his family and the economic and cultural growth of Puerto Rico.
		As a member of Puerto Rico's House of Representatives, President of the Senate, and Governor, he was an effective advocate for the political empowerment of the people of Puerto Rico.
		Laura joins me in sending our condolences to the Ferre family and to the people of Puerto Rico.
	www.whitehouse.gov /news/releases/2003/10/20031022.html (126 words)

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