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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.
		Under this constitution, Puerto Rico is a commonwealth freely associated with the United States and is permitted a high degree of autonomy.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/p/pu/puerto_rico.html (1005 words)

	Senate of Puerto Rico - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Senate of Puerto Rico is the upper house of the Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico, smaller than the House of Representatives.
		The Senate, its members and staff are housed in the eastern half of the Capitol Building, the Rafael Martinez-Nadal Senate Annex Building, the Luis Muñoz-Marin Office Building, the Antonio R. Barcelo Building, the Luis A. Ferre Building and the Ramon Mellado-Parsons Office Building.
		Article III of the Constitution of Puerto Rico states that no person can be a member of the Senate unless he or she:
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Senate_of_Puerto_Rico (455 words)

	Puerto Rico - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Puerto Rico, the smallest of the Greater Antilles, includes the main island of Puerto Rico and a number of smaller islands and keys, including Mona, Vieques, and Culebra.
		The government of Puerto Rico is based on the Republican system 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.
		Under the 1952 constitution, Puerto Rico is a Commonwealth (use some benefits of the U.S.) and is permitted a degree of autonomy similar to that of a state of the Union.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Puerto_Rico (5926 words)

	Puerto Rico
		Puerto Rico is unusual in that it is the first Overseas Commonwealth Territory of the United States, and although Spanish is the island's first language, English is widely spoken and Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens.
		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 Congress of the United States.
	www.caribbeantown.com /puerto_rico.htm (4101 words)

	Puerto Rico Government
		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)

	PUERTO RICO HERALD: California Legislators Present Self-Determination Resolution to Puerto Rico Senate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		While on the island, California Senator Majority Leader Richard Polanco and his Senate colleague, Martha Escutia, presented a resolution to the Puerto Rico Senate, recently passed by the 20 member Latino Caucus of the California Senate.
		I mean, 200,000 Puerto Ricans have fought for this great country of ours, and yet they are not able to vote for the most important office on earth, the presidency of the United States.
		And until the issue of self-determination in Puerto Rico is resolved, by the will of the people, true democracy in the purest form is not fully available to the Puerto Ricans here.
	www.puertorico-herald.org /issues/vol3n42/RomanSDResPRSenate-en.shtml (1310 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 Senate is composed of 27 senators - two per electoral district and 11 elected at large based on the proportion of the population.
		Puerto Rico has three main political parties: the New Progressive Party, the Popular Democratic Party and the Puerto Rican Independence Party.
	www.prfaa.com /eng/PRGovernment.asp (424 words)

	United States Representative Luis Fortuño - Puerto Rico - Senator Santorum And Congressman Fortuño Introduce The ...
		Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) is an original co-sponsor of the legislation.
		Currently, Puerto Rico is the only jurisdiction in the United States - including the other U.S. territories - that does not receive equal treatment in the Medicare Prospective Payment System (PPS) reimbursement formula despite the fact that Puerto Ricans pay the same Medicare payroll taxes and deductibles as their fellow citizens in the 50 states.
		Puerto Rico hospitals are also required to comply with the same Medicare standards of participation as hospitals on the mainland.
	www.house.gov /apps/list/press/pr00_fortuno/Santorum.html (461 words)

	Puerto Rico WOW - Caribbean Business Archive Detail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		As I left the Senate chamber that day, I felt the generational cycle of change has once again been completed in Puerto Rico and we now are entering a new historical period.
		I was born while Puerto Rico was under the leadership of the generation that came to power in the 1940s: Luis Muñoz Marín, Miguel A. García Méndez, Luis A. Ferré, and Gilberto Concepción de Gracia of the Independence Party.
		The torch has been passed to a new generation of Puerto Ricans, born under the Commonwealth, who knew not the hardships of extreme poverty, are more educated, have suffered the years of unending status disputes, and have the desire to make their contribution to Puerto Rico.
	www.puertoricowow.com /html/Archives/ArcDetail2.asp?archID=15087 (904 words)

	Share and Discover Puerto Rico Bio, Pictures, News at BlinkBits. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		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 had a per capita GDP estimate of $17,700 for 2004, which demonstrates a growth over the $14,412 level measured in the 2002 Current Population Survey by the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund.
	www.blinkbits.com /blinks/puerto_rico (5509 words)

	Governing the Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		No one shall be a member of the Senate unless he/she reads and writes either of the two languages, Spanish or English; is a citizen of the United States of America and of Puerto Rico, and has resided on the Island for at least two years prior to the date of the election.
		The main responsibility of the Senators is to introduce legislation of their own creation to attend to the various aspects of Puerto Rican life, and analyze and decide on legislation submitted by the Governor to the Legislative Assembly.
		Another essential function of the Senators is their active participation in the public and/or private hearings that are held by the senatorial committees, in which the suggestions addressed for the presentation and passing of legislation are proposed and analyzed.
	www.puertoro.com /governing_the_island.htm (448 words)

	Puerto Rico
		The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is located in the Caribbean Sea, about 1,000 mi east-southeast of Miami, Fla. A possession of the United States, it consists of the island of Puerto Rico plus the adjacent islets of Vieques, Culebra, and Mona.
		Puerto Rican extremists dramatized their desire for independence with an attempt to assassinate President Truman on Nov. 1, 1950, and on March 1, 1954, they wounded five congressmen in an attack on the U.S. Capitol.
		Puerto Rico: Bibliography - Bibliography See F. Cordasco and E. Bucchioni, comp., The Puerto Rican Experience (1973); L. Housing Units in the United States, Regions, and States, and for Puerto Rico, 2000 - Area Total Percent vacant Occupied Percent owner- occuppied United States 115,904,641 9.0%...
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0113949.html (923 words)

	14 Years Later, Puerto Rico Rests Its Case - Murder in Puerto Rico
		Rights Division's whitewashing of the Puerto Rican police and their superiors who were involved in the murders.
		SAMUEL DASH (The writer is special counsel to the president of the Senate of Puerto Rico, and adviser to its investigating staff).
		Puerto Rican Senate and apologized to the people of Puerto Rico.
	home.coqui.net /ciales15/m17.html (945 words)

	Wikinfo \| Puerto Rico (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory of the United States in the Caribbean Sea.
		During that period, the colonial regime appointed the first Puerto Rican governor, Jesús T. Piñero, until 1948 when the people elected Luis Muñoz Marín as the first elected governor.
		Images, some of which are used under the doctrine of Fair use or used with permission, may not be available.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Puerto_Rico (2328 words)

	Music of Puerto Rico - Artists: Yolandita Monge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		She is one of the most popular voices in Puerto Rico with one of the longest strings of hits.
		From her entrance onto the Puerto Rican music scene, Yolandita has maintained a position of one of the most successfulful artists in Puerto Rico.
		Yolandita was born on 16 September, 1955 in Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico but lived the first seven years of her life in New York City.
	www.musicofpuertorico.com /en/yolandita_monge.html (855 words)

	Comisión por la Verdad y la Justicia
		A string of unsolved political crimes committed in Puerto Rico during the 70's and the 80's‹among them the murders of Carlos Muñiz Varela and Santiago "Chagui" Mari Pesquera‹are under investigation by the Juridical Commission of the Senate of Puerto Rico.
		Among the names of possible murderers and their accomplices mentioned by the members of the Commission for Truth and Justice at the hearing was that of a well-known ultrarightist Cuban businessman in Puerto Rico widely thought to be the main suspect in the murder of Muñiz Varela.
		The Justice Department and the Senate, which by then was in the hands of the pro-statehood party, ignored the new evidence for 10 years, perhaps hoping that it would go away.
	www.verdadyjusticia.org /prensa/internet/will_justice_be_done.htm (1430 words)

	Puerto Rico & Vieques - Senate Committee Votes To Cut Roosevelt Roads Funds By 50% (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Its report noted that the base is being downsized because of the closure of the Atlantic Fleet’s longtime weapons training range on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques and the relocation of Vieques-based training functions to the States [and adjacent waters].
		The Senate action was an unsurprising setback for the goal of Puerto Rico Governor Sila Calderon ("commonwealth"/no national party) to have operations at Roosevelt Roads maintained at the Vieques range training level despite the end of the training -- which she sought.
		Her refusal to recognize the agreement as well as her intentional violations of it caused senior military officials to feel that Puerto Rico is not a reliable location for military facilities investments.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/919217/posts (1399 words)

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		Her opinion regarding this process to resolve Puerto Rico's political status deserves respect and should be treasured, particularly as one who was born in the 19th century, before the United States flag was raised in Puerto Rico.
		This is a status that has served the people of Puerto Rico well, that has allowed the sons and daughters of this island to work toward a common ideal of progress and well-being and to avoid the clashes between otherwise unaccommodating visions.
		These are the words of compact between the people of Puerto Rico and the Congress, a compact the Congress proposed to rid the United States of the shame of colonialism before the international community, recognizing that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
	commdocs.house.gov /committees/resources/hii43194.000/hii43194_0.htm (16093 words)

	Puerto Rico senate votes to kill sodomy law \| News \| Advocate.com
		Puerto Rico senate votes to kill sodomy law
		The Puerto Rico senate voted Monday to approve a new penal code that would void the long-standing sodomy law, known as Article 103, and criminalize acts of sodomy only if they are nonconsensual, as outlined under Article 142.
		Monday's vote and the expected U. Supreme Court ruling in the Texas sodomy case are likely to increase pressure on the Puerto Rico house of representatives to adopt similar language in its version of the penal code, which should be approved in the fall.
	www.advocate.com /news_detail.asp?id=10051 (190 words)

	Hispanic Business - Puerto Rico Senate Minority Leader Blasts U.S. Census Bureau
		SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, June 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Kenneth McClintock, Puerto Rico's Senate Minority Leader is appalled that the United States Census Bureau omitted 3.8 million U.S. citizens from its recently announced findings that Hispanics are the largest minority group.
		Senator Kenneth McClintock is a member of the Pro statehood New Progressive Party and has served in the Puerto Rico Senate since 1993.
		Senator McClintock served as Chairman of the Council of State Governments 1999.
	www.hispanicbusiness.com /news/newsbyid.asp?id=11199 (336 words)

	CNN.com - Luis Ferre, prominent Puerto Rican figure, dies - Oct. 21, 2003
		Luis A. Ferre, a philanthropist and former governor of Puerto Rico who became the patriarch of the territory's U.S. statehood movement, died Tuesday.
		Ferre was a member of the assembly that produced Puerto Rico's 1952 constitution, he founded the pro-statehood New Progressive Party in 1967 and was governor from 1969 through 1972.
		It was during his university days, Ferre said, that he developed a passion for the "American way of democracy" and eventual statehood for Puerto Rico, which was seized as war booty from Spain in 1898.
	edition.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/americas/10/21/obit.ferre.ap (523 words)

	Music of Puerto Rico - Artists: El Gran Combo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The internationally reknown salsa band was born in the aftermath of the breakup of the Combo de Rafael Cortijo in 1962.
		In the aftermath of that horrific event, the distribution of the album in Puerto Rico was postponed.
		On their 20th anniversary, the group received several local and international awards, including the "El Congo de Oro" in Colombia, an honarary resolution from the Senate of Puerto Rico and another from the town of Dorado, and the Paoli Prize (Puerto Rico).
	www.musicofpuertorico.com /en/el_gran_combo.html (1221 words)

	NEW INQUIRY IN PUERTO RICO SHOOTINGS
		(SAN JUAN, P.R) The Senate of Puerto Rico will investigate whether Federal officials helped cover up the circumstances of the killing of two young radicals by the police six years ago, it was announced today.
		Puerto Rico Senate uncovered evidence that the two surrendered to the police after a brief exchange of gunfire and were later slain,
		Rinzel said today that in view of that case it would be inappropriate for him to comment on the Senate inquiry announced today.
	home.coqui.net /ciales15/m9.html (639 words)

	Peace Conference in Puerto Rico 2002
		From August 12 to 14, 2002, it was celebrated in Puerto Rico a Conference entitled "PEACE IN PEACE" ("PAZ EN LA PAZ") patronized by the "Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress" ("Fundación Arias para la Paz y el Progreso Humano") and the Senate of Puerto Rico.
		This event gathered thinkers of diverse parts of the world with the same objective, to link the love and good will streams that exist in the world and are the hope of change that, as humanity, we are waiting for.
		I recently attended a conference on peace and human progress hosted by Nobel Peace Laureate Oscar Arias and the Senate of Puerto Rico.
	www.luisprada.com /Protected/Peace_Conference_in_Puerto_Rico_2002.htm (1502 words)

	Kennedy Center: 2004 AmericArtes Festival
		September 7 through 26 as part of the Kennedy Center Prelude Festival, AmericArtes: Espíritu de Puerto Rico celebrates the vibrant spirit of la Isla del Encanto, the enchanted island, with premier Puerto Rican music, dance, theater, literature, and visual arts.
		A heartfelt tribute to Puerto Ricoâs ancient Taíno culture, the story is a journey through magical colors through the eyes of a child who wants to share the beauty of his island.
		AmericArtes: Espíritu de Puerto Rico is presented with the generous support of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, through funding from the Puerto Rico Tourism Company and Rums of Puerto Rico.
	www.kennedy-center.org /programs/festivals/americartes/home.html (1127 words)

	A Virtual Travel to Puerto Rico - Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico - Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
		Art and artifacts of Puerto Rico's history and culture, the Vidal Collection at the National Museum of American History.
		Café Rico was the leading coffee company during the first part of the century.
		Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age
	www.nationsonline.org /oneworld/puerto_rico.htm (868 words)

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