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Topic: List of Puerto Rican newspapers


  
  Cyndi's List - Territories & Possessions (U.S.)
This list is intended to provide students from Central America and those interested in discussing issues concerning these countries, including Panama, with a discussion list conducive to the interchange of ideas.
Puerto Rico historical and genealogical data from the records of the Spanish Governors in Puerto Rico.
Listing of addresses and phone numbers for all the county recorders.
www.cyndislist.com /territor.htm   (1357 words)

  
  Puerto Rican Americans
Puerto Rican communities in urban areas are plagued by problems such as crime, drug-use, poor educational opportunity, unemployment, and the breakdown of the traditionally strong Puerto Rican family structure.
Puerto Rican cuisine is tasty and nutritious and consists mainly of seafood and tropical island vegetables, fruits, and meats.
Hauberg, Clifford A. Puerto Rico and the Puerto Ricans.
www.everyculture.com /multi/Pa-Sp/Puerto-Rican-Americans.html   (8137 words)

  
 PUERTO RICO HERALD: Nearly 3,500 Puerto Ricans In Action In Afghanistan, Iraq   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Although the exact number of Puerto Rican soldiers wounded in combat has not been disclosed, the number of dead increased significantly in November.
Puerto Rico, which is a U.S. commonwealth but whose residents do not vote in U.S. national elections, has only one 340-bed hospital to take care of ailing veterans.
Neither the facilities nor the number of beds are considered adequate, and Puerto Rico's resident commissioner in Washington, Anibal Acevedo Vila, said a congressional allocation was being sought to improve the facilities at the Veterans' Hospital.
www.puertorico-herald.org /issues/2003/vol7n51/Nearly3500.shtml   (431 words)

  
 List of Puerto Rican companies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of companies from Puerto Rico.
See the lists of companies for lists of companies from other countries.
This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Puerto_Rican_companies   (103 words)

  
 Puerto Rican Prisoners of War
The history of Puerto Rico demonstrates that for almost two centuries, distinct sectors of Puerto Rican society have been at war against the invaders who held political, military and economic power.
Puerto Rico was invaded and occupied by military forces in 1898.
The list of actions is extensive, ranging from the conspiracy at San German in 1809 to the uprising of Ciales, San German and Sabana Grande in 1898.
www.prisonactivist.org /pps+pows/pr-pows.html   (2086 words)

  
 Puerto Rico - Global Career Connections
Puerto Rico, is a freely associated commonwealth of the United States, composed of one large, densely populated island and several small islands in the West Indies.
Puerto Rico was a Spanish colony for almost four centuries until it was ceded to the United States following the Spanish-American War (1898).
Since 1952 Puerto Ricans have debated whether the island should remain a commonwealth, attempt to become the 51st state of the United States, or become an independent nation.
www.du.edu /internationaljobs/puertorico.htm   (806 words)

  
 Directory of Resources for Research on Puerto Rico
Elections in Puerto Rico The final results of all general elections held in the Island from 1920 to the present, of the 1967, 1993, and 1998 Status Plebiscites, of the 1951, 1952, 1991 and 1994 referendums, and of the 1951 special election, as well as other reference materials relative to the Puerto Rican electoral process.
National Puerto Rican Forum The mission of this organization is to enhance the socio-economic conditions of the Latino population through programs, research, advocacy and direct services in education and economic development.
Puerto Rican Coalition NPRC's mission is to systematically strengthen and enhance the social, political, and economic well-being of Puerto Ricans throughout the United States and in Puerto Rico.
home.coqui.net /ciales15/?epr   (8413 words)

  
 La Comay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
La Comay is a famous puppet doll featured in Puerto Rican television that is managed by Antulio Santarrosa Bonilla, also known as Kobbo Santarrosa, a puppeteer, magician, ventriloquist and promoter born in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.
In 2005, the show was ranked number one by a poll that analizes Puerto Rican viewer's preferred shows.
Many political critics expressed that "La Comay" had a lot to do with the outcome of the 2004 Puerto Rican elections: Santarrosa kept doing on air campaign for the PPD, the critics say, which may have helped the population vote for Anibal Acevedo Vilá instead of Pedro Rosselló or Ruben Berrios.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/La_Comay   (654 words)

  
 PUERTO RICO REPORT: Playing The Republic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
They embarrassed Gov. Calderón when newspapers published stories on their existence the morning she first met with visiting Uruguayan President Jorge Luis Batlle, who took a two-day trip here this week in an attempt to boost trade between Puerto Rico and the South American nation.
Puerto Rico made no such request to Washington, Powell wrote, adding "given the predominantly political nature of the summit and the fact that the United States is not a participant, it is unlikely that Puerto Rican participation would be approved."
That’s not a good track record for Calderón, who pledged to expand Puerto Rico’s role in the region at her January 2001 inauguration, attended by prominent heads of state from across the Caribbean and Latin America.
www.puertorico-herald.org /issues/2003/vol7n38/PRR0738-en.shtml   (785 words)

  
 New York City - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, which includes Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Metropolitan Opera, the New York City Opera, the New York Philharmonic and the New York City Ballet, is the largest performing arts center in the United States.
The city is home to two of the three national daily newspapers in the United States: The New York Times (circulation 1.1 million), and the The Wall Street Journal (circulation 2.1 million).
The city also has a large ethnic press with newspapers in over twenty languages; El Diario La Prensa (circulation 265,000) is New York's largest Spanish-language daily and the oldest in the nation.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_York_City   (6238 words)

  
 Island and Continental Puerto Rican Literature: Cross-Cultural and Intertextual Considerations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
While it is not uncommon for authors born or raised in the United States to spend a portion of their lives in Puerto Rico, prominent Island-based authors have written major works describing life in the United States for Puerto Ricans of various social classes, mirroring the stages of population flux.
United States Puerto Rican literature, whether produced primarily in English or primarily in Spanish, is an integral part of the multicultural reality of the United States, and we cannot segregate it without distorting its cross-cultural idiosyncracy and thus subverting its very nature.
Island Puerto Rican literature is as much a part of Latin American literature today as it was during the four centuries of Spanish rule; it shares stylistic trends, thematic concerns, and periodization schemes of twentieth-century Spanish American literature, from modernism to magic and wondrous realism to the present.
www.mla.org /ade/bulletin/N091/091052.htm   (2299 words)

  
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Many Puerto Ricans resented the fact that their children were required to speak English and protested against this infringement upon their cultural heritage by establishing private schools where the children were taught in Spanish, and the survival of the mother tongue was assured.
Puerto Ricans who were basically Catholic came to New York without Priests, but the church did nothing to find or train clergy that could minister to them.
The movement encompassed all Puerto Ricans and led to the development of creative solutions to the problems of cultural inconsistencies and pressures for conformity from the dominant American society.
www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1990/1/90.01.05.x.html   (5786 words)

  
 NYPL, The Spanish-American War Research Guide
A select bibliography identifies a variety of sources related to this period in Puerto Rican history, and the appendix includes the text of some important documents.
Puerto Rico y la crisis de la Guerra Hispanoamericana (1895-1898).
Includes a list of relevant periodicals published in Puerto Rico and the rest of the Americas.
www.nypl.org /research/chss/grd/resguides/spanamerwar/PuertoRico.html   (1050 words)

  
 Workers World Sept. 23, 1999: U.S. politicians debate how to cope with resurgent Puerto Rico
It was the sentiment of millions of Puerto Ricans who felt that the United States had gone overboard on the long sentences the political prisoners received.
Puerto Ricans view the United States as not respecting the territorial integrity of their island.
Thousands of Puerto Ricans have shown combativeness in defending their sovereignty--whether marching in support of striking telephone workers in the People's Strike of 1998, in the many marches and demonstrations to free the political prisoners, in trying to kick the U.S. Navy out of Vieques, or in protesting the U.S. military presence on the island.
www.workers.org /ww/1999/puerto0923.php   (952 words)

  
 Puerto Rican Naval Campaign, Part 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The strategic role of Puerto Rico was appreciated by the American military as an advantageous position for the United States that must be taken from the Spanish as a future forward base to the envisioned Panama Canal.
Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan wrote that Puerto Rico, "would be invaluable to the mother country [Spain] as an intermediate naval station and as a base of supplies and reinforcements for both her fleet and army,.
There was generous trade between the Spanish islands of Puerto Rico and Cuba and the United States, and by the late nineteenth century, much of the expansion of the sugar agriculture on Cuba and Puerto Rico was due to the investment of American capital.
www.spanamwar.com /puertonaval1.htm   (2758 words)

  
 Music of Puerto Rico - Essays   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Toward the end of the sixties and seventies, the nueva canción emerged in Puerto Rico as an evolution of protest music in the universities.
Juan Antonio Corretjer was born on 3 March 1908 in the town of Ciales, Puerto Rico.
He went to live in Puerto Rico when he was four years old and he lived and studied there until he earned his Bachelor's degree from the University of Puerto Rico.
www.musicofpuertorico.com /en/essays_nueva_cancion.html   (849 words)

  
 Puerto Rican Land Campaign, Part 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The New York Times was one of the first newspapers to report on Miles' movement out from Guánica beachhead and the reaction of native Puerto Rican to the American invasion, with the following piece of July 27th.
From all contemporary accounts the Puerto Rican population were in the main not unwilling to accept the American troops, but Miles knew it was psychologically and strategically prudent to not give them any excuse to initiate local resistance to his forces.
Hermann believed the existing laws of Puerto Rico were morally superior and more severe than what most of the American forces were used to, therefore, there was little danger of a conflict between the military order of Miles and the common law of the island.
www.spanamwar.com /puertoland2.htm   (3094 words)

  
 Puerto Rican newspapers for information on local issues, politics, events, celebrations, people and business.
The newspaper is considered one of the major dailies in the U.S. territory, with a circulation of 132,000.
The Institute of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture, which broke ground Monday, will be the only museum in the U.S. mainland dedicated exclusively to the Caribbean island's heritage, its officials said.
The governor of Puerto Rico was in Chicago to celebrate the opening of the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration's new Midwest region office and to show his support for Puerto Ricans in Illinois.
puertoricanpower.net /news/index.htm   (6149 words)

  
 ASNE - Newspaper editors protest Puerto Rican governor’s advertising boycott of San Juan newspaper (April 21, 1997)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
RESTON, Va. — The American Society of Newspaper Editors has asked Puerto Rican Gov. Pedro Rossello to rescind his action that ordered state agencies to cancel their advertising in the San Juan daily El Nuevo Dia because the governor didn’t like news stories published by the daily.
In an ideal world, ASNE believes the newspapers of Puerto Rico would be better off without a significant segment of their advertising coming from the government, but this is certainly not the way we believe this situation should be resolved.
The American Society of Newspaper Editors, with 870 members, is an organization of the main editors of daily newspapers in the United States and Canada.
www.asne.org /kiosk/news/puerto.htm   (289 words)

  
 LancasterOnline.com: Puerto Rico Ends Partial Gov't Shutdown   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Puerto Rico's governor signed legislation on Saturday ending a partial government shutdown that closed the territory's public schools and idled half the government work force.
The end to the budget impasse came several hours after Puerto Rico's Senate authorized an emergency loan to fund the government's operations and payroll until the end of the fiscal year on June 30.
Several Puerto Rican economists said the partial government shutdown has not produced savings for the treasury because the government will have to pay overtime to police officers that worked security details during daily protests and other expenses.
ap.lancasteronline.com /4/puerto_rico_shutdown   (461 words)

  
 AEJMC Archives -- August 1994, week 4 (#41)
Dennis was referring mainly to tabloid newspapers, yet tabloid television must be considered as having an impact as well, especially after the 1992 presidential election.
As an example, Willis recalls the national fervor over the Dallas episode in which J.R. Ewing was shot; the incident was treated by media almost as a real-life situation, revealing the culprit as if she had been found after a massive FBI manhunt.
Rivera, who is of half Puerto Rican and half Jewish descent, explained why he prefers to be thought of as a role model for Hispanics rather than Jews: "The Jewish people, for their tiny numbers, have done so superbly.
list.msu.edu /cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9408D&L=aejmc&P=R44474   (4649 words)

  
 Az Newspapers : Newspapers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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 Cyndi's List - Hispanic, Central & South America, & the West Indies
List of the Conquistadors that served the King under Cortes.
The list is dedicated to the search for information on the origins of families, registers in Brazil and abroad, histories of immigrants, meanings of surnames, etc.
A mailing list for the discussion and sharing of information regarding emigrants from the United Kingdom to South America during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
www.cyndislist.com /hispanic.htm   (2643 words)

  
 Lists Online
When selecting business lists, the key variables are industry and employee size.
Comprehensive coverage of top executives makes this list the best resource for matching your product or service to the right decision maker at America's most prestigious companies.
This database of weekly and daily newspaper, selectable by circulation size includes names of all types of editors in the newspaper industry.
www.btb.com /listsonline.htm   (1136 words)

  
 Person of the Week: Rosario Ferré
Now one of Puerto Rico's best-known authors, she began writing professionally at the age of 14, publishing articles in Puerto Rico's El Nuevo Día newspaper.
"To be Puerto Rican is to be a hybrid," she wrote in the New York Times in 1998.
She holds a doctorate from the University of Maryland, and in the early 1970s, she was editor and publisher of Zona de Carga y Descarga (Loading and Unloading Zone), a journal of Puerto Rican literature.
www.wellesley.edu /Anniversary/ferre.html   (752 words)

  
 Socialist Action newspaper
Such communities’ increasing self-awareness made turnout particularly strong in cities where they’ve faced attacks from local politicians’ putting forward their own bills to restrict immigrant rights—including such vicious attacks as denying immunizations for kids, prenatal care for women, and even all health-care services.
The unionists involved are also leaders in the city’s Dominican and Puerto Rican communities.
This includes veterans of Chicano, Puerto Rican, and other liberation struggles, many of whom have gone on to play leading roles in heavily-immigrant unions.
www.socialistaction.org /pollack8.htm   (4257 words)

  
 Plena Libre keep Puerto Rican tradition - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Gary Nuñez says his band's work at reinvigorating interest in a Puerto Rican form of music has been difficult, but still has been a "long and joyful ride."
Nuñez, founder and leader of the band, Plena Libre, says he was -- and still is -- fighting against the influence of the "international powers" that steer musical direction in his country.
He will be continuing his quest to elevate Puerto Rican music at the Byham Theater, Downtown, Sunday where the band will play its rock and jazz-influenced form of the plena, a traditional Puerto Rican song form, he set out to boost.
pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/entertainment/music/s_440451.html   (477 words)

  
 Puerto Rican ancestry by city - ePodunk
The above map shows U.S. cities with the highest percentages of people of Puerto Rican ancestry.
Although Puerto Rico is part of the U.S., the census lists Puerto Rican as an ancestry for those living in the 50 states.
The map and the following list show communities in which 1,000 or more people listed an ancestry group, and in which at least 6 percent of those people said they were Puerto Rican.
www.epodunk.com /ancestry/Puerto-Rican.html   (277 words)

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