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	Maria De Lourdes Santiago
		Maria De Lourdes Santiago is a young Puerto Rican woman who is a member of the PIP (Puerto Rican Independist Party).
		She is expected by many to become the first woman in that party to run for Governor, possibly challenging Sila Maria Calderon (who was the first woman Governor of Puerto Rico in history herself) for the 2004 elections.
		Santiago is a writer of a column that is published on the El Nuevo Dia newspaper, and she was recently arrested in Vieques for illegally trespassing military facilities to protest the military's bomb testings in that city.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ma/Maria_De_Lourdes_Santiago.html (107 words)

	PUERTO RICO HERALD: Calderon Speaks At Princeton On U.S. Relations, History; Governor Wants To Revise Commonwealth
		Though Calderon acknowledged there are still issues that need to be ironed out between the United States and Puerto Rico, she repeatedly emphasized commonwealth status is the best solution for Puerto Ricans.
		New Jersey - Gov. Sila Calderon said Thursday that the relationship between the Puerto Rico and U.S. governments should be revised as the island commemorates the 50th anniversary of its commonwealth status.
		In the ceremony held at the university’s student center, Calderon said she is convinced that the best way to promote island development and social justice is by developing the Commonwealth.
	www.puertorico-herald.org /issues/2002/vol6n16/CalderonPrinceton-en.html (665 words)

	Sila María Calderón - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sila María Calderón Serra (born September 23, 1942) was the seventh Democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico from 2001 to 2005.
		Sila María grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico and attended high school at the Sacred Heart Academy in Santurce.
		Governor Calderon speaks with the King of Spain HM Juan Carlos I.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sila_Mar%C3%ADa_Calder%C3%B3n (884 words)

	Sila Maria Calderon: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Sila Maria Calderon
		Sila Maria Calderon (born September 23, 1942) made history in 2001 by becoming the first woman ever to become Governor[?] of Puerto Rico after winning the 2000 elections.
		Calderon was also mayor of the city of San Juan from 1996 to 2000.
		During her campaign for Governor, Calderon was accused of abusive treatment by one of her former house workers.
	www.encyclopedian.com /si/Sila-Maria-Calderon.html (266 words)

	Sila María Calderón (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sila María Calderón Serra (born September 23, 1942) is the seventh and current democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico.
		Sila María grew up in San Juan and attended high school at the Sacred Heart Academy in Santurce.
		Calderon became the first woman Chief of Staff in Puerto Rico in 1985.
	factsite.co.uk /en/wikipedia/s/si/sila_maria_calderon.html (662 words)

	PUERTO RICO HERALD: Puerto Rico: Country Outlook
		The governor, Sila Maria Calderon of the pro-commonwealth PPD, who is seeking re-election in November 2004, will focus on strengthening her economic record.
		The governor, Sila Maria Calderon of the pro-commonwealth Partido Popular Democratico (PPD), who is seeking re-election, will focus on strengthening her record on the economy.
		Mrs Calderon has also announced that she favours a cut in personal taxation in 2003, although the specifics of that proposal are still to be worked out.
	www.puertorico-herald.org /issues/2003/vol7n15/PRCountryOutlook-en.html (396 words)

	Governor of Puerto Rico to Address The City Club of Cleveland Thursday, June 10
		Sila Maria Calderon graduated with honors in 1964 from Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York, with a bachelor of arts degree in government.
		In November of 2000, Calderon was elected governor of Puerto Rico after a campaign based on fiscal responsibility, economic development, special attention to underprivileged citizens, and clean government.
		Calderon made job creation the priority of her administration, and today more of Puerto Rico's citizens have a job than when she took office in 2001.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/06-09-2004/0002190566&EDATE= (505 words)

	Puerto Rico and the American Dream (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sila María was not also the first woman mayor of San Juan.
		Sila María not only did she win the governor's race but this was interesting -- a little trivia that I dug up.
		So Sila is really the first true post Muñoz leader of the Popular Democratic Party and to be in charge of the governor's race.
	www.prdream.com /patria/centro/11_21/B_sila.html (426 words)

	Sila Maria Calderon Biography
		Sila María Calderón Serra (born September 23, 1942) is the first woman to become Governor of Puerto Rico.
		Sila María grew up in San Juan and attended high school at the Sacred Heart Academy in Santurce.
		Calderon became the first woman Chief of Staff in Puerto Rico in 1985.
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Calderon_Sila_Maria.html (575 words)

	ipedia.com: Popular Democratic Party of Puerto Rico Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The PPD is currently the party in power in Puerto Rico, with Sila María Calderón as governor (the first woman to be Puerto Rican governor in history), having won the 2000 elections.
		In 2000, Sila Maria Calderon regained the governor's seat for the PPD, beating PNP candidate Carlos Ignacio Pesquera, and Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP) candidate Ruben Berrios.
		Calderon has announced that she will not be running for governor in 2004.
	www.ipedia.com /popular_democratic_party_of_puerto_rico.html (706 words)

	Piterski voditeli eto sila (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Dahil SILA ang tumatabas sa ganda nito't buhay.
		SILA ang nagbubura sa saya at tingkad ng dati nitong kulay.
		SILA na pasilip-silip lang sa mundo kong maraming siwang na muli kong susulsulan at isasara pagka't ang mundo ko'y AKIN LAMANG.
	www.ljtop.com /piterski_voditeli_eto_sila_196899855r.html (355 words)

	Office of Media Relations
		Calderon made an initial gift of $100,000 and pledged to help identify $400,000 in matching grants for the Sila Calderon Endowed Fund.
		Calderon said her dual interests in ethical public policy and social justice prompted her gift to Rutgers in Camden, where about one-third of the population is of Puerto Rican ancestry, according to the 2000 U.S. Census.
		“Sila is a symbol of leadership and honor for the island.
	urwebsrv.rutgers.edu /medrel/viewArticle.html?ArticleID=4532 (554 words)

	Puerto Rico: Battle Over Island Drug Czar Exposes Fault Lines on Drug Policy
		Sila Maria Calderon made a revamped drug policy part of her legislative fast-track agenda and, according to local press accounts, argued that prevention and treatment -- not being tough on criminals or drug users -- should be the focus of the island's approach to drug problems.
		Calderon had someone in mind from the beginning, according to the Commission for the Study of Crime and Addictions (CECA), part of a nascent Puerto Rican drug reform coalition that also includes health professionals in academia and the service sector, the Puerto Rican Bar Association's Human Rights Commission, and the Puerto Rican Psychological Association.
		Calderon's choice, Col. Jorge Collazo, a School of the Americas-trained "super-policeman," as CECA put it a chronology of recent events obtained by DRCNet, was an early indication that Calderon's reform rhetoric exceeded her policy plans.
	stopthedrugwar.org /chronicle/176/puertorico.shtml (1485 words)

	Governor of Puerto Rico Calls for Stronger Democracy to Achieve Economic Development
		During the event, held in the San Gerónimo Room of San Juan's Hotel Caribe Hilton, the Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Sila María Calderón Serra spoke, along with ECLAC Executive Secretary, José Luis Machinea, and the Ambassador of Brazil in Chile, Gelson Fonseca.
		Sila María Calderón Serra underlined the importance of improving the basic living conditions of specific communities (the neediest sectors of the population), as well as keeping public finance healthy, fighting public sector corruption and rebuilding citizens' confidence in their institutions and their governments.
		The Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Sila María Calderón Serra.
	www.eclac.cl /cgi-bin/getProd.asp?xml=/prensa/noticias/comunicados/5/15205/P15205.xml&xsl=/prensa/tpl-i/p6f.xsl&base=/prensa/tpl-i/top-bottom.xsl (687 words)

	Calderon, Sila Maria -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Sila María Calderón of the Popular Democratic Party was sworn in as governor of Puerto Rico on January 2.
		Maria Tallchief was born on Jan. 24, 1925, in Fairfax, Okla. The daughter of an Osage Indian, she spent part of her childhood on a reservation.
		British novelist Maria Edgeworth wrote novels of manners (stories in which the conventional manners of society are satirized) that colorfully depict life in Ireland.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9384018 (775 words)

	Instituto de la Ciencia y Tecnologia en America Latina (ICTAL) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sila's Legacy: the foundation of a new economy
		With the change in leadership after the last election (Nov. 2), we may ask, "What will Governor Sila Maria Calderon's legacy be in the future (PPD, 2000-2004)?" Certainly, she distinguishes herself for having been the first woman in the history of the governorship of Puerto Rico.
		Although much remains to be done, we may observe that Calderon took those important first steps towards a new economy.
	www.ictal.org /print.php?sid=594 (475 words)

	The Tico Times Online Daily Page
		WARM welcome: Sila María Calderón, Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, receives a bouquet of flowers from school children during the first day of her visit to Costa Rica yesterday.
		During the first day of a two-day visit to Costa Rica yesterday, Sila María Calderón, governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, met with President Abel Pacheco and inaugurated a Trade Promotion Office aimed at fostering trade between Central America and Puerto Rico.
		Elementary and high-school students should bring their materials, paper, pencils, paints, etc., to paint about the topic of “23 Years of Good Relationship between the Governments of Costa Rica and China” 8:30 a.m.-noon, Sat., April 24, in front of the Art Museum, La Sabana Park.
	www.ticotimes.net /dailyarchive/2004_04/Week3/04_23_04.htm (1181 words)

	Rutgers Focus - Former Puerto Rico governor pledges $500,000 to Camden public administration program
		A former governor of Puerto Rico, Sila Maria Calderon, has pledged to raise $500,000 to support the graduate program in public administration and the Center for Strategic Urban Community Leadership at Rutgers-Camden.
		Calderon made an initial gift of $100,000 and pledged to help identify $400,000 in matching grants for the Sila Calderon Endowed Fund.
		“Sila is a symbol of leadership and honor for the island.
	ur.rutgers.edu /focus/article/Former+Puerto+Rico+...+program/1596 (312 words)

	Puerto Rico: Battle Over Island Drug Czar Exposes Fault Lines on Drug Policy
		Sila Maria Calderon made a revamped drug policy part of her legislative fast-track agenda and, according to local press accounts, argued that prevention and treatment -- not being tough on criminals or drug users -- should be the focus of the island's approach to drug problems.
		Calderon had someone in mind from the beginning, according to the Commission for the Study of Crime and Addictions (CECA), part of a nascent Puerto Rican drug reform coalition that also includes health professionals in academia and the service sector, the Puerto Rican Bar Association's Human Rights Commission, and the Puerto Rican Psychological Association.
		Calderon's choice, Col. Jorge Collazo, a School of the Americas-trained "super-policeman," as CECA put it a chronology of recent events obtained by DRCNet, was an early indication that Calderon's reform rhetoric exceeded her policy plans.
	www.stopthedrugwar.org /chronicle/176/puertorico.shtml (1485 words)

	NAHJ: Press Release February 08, 2001
		WASHINGTON -- Puerto Rico Governor Sila Maria Calderon will be the keynote speaker at the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) 12th Annual Scholarship Banquet on February 22.
		Calderon, the former mayor of San Juan, was elected to her new post last November.
		"It is exciting to have Governor Calderon, a newsmaker, as our keynote speaker," said NAHJ President Cecilia Alvear.
	www.nahj.org /release/2001/pr020801.html (334 words)

	sila -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Sanskrit Sila, in Buddhism, morality, or right conduct; sila comprises three stages along the Eightfold Path (q.v.
		Evil actions are considered to be the product of defiling passions (see asrava), but their causes are rooted out only by the exercise of wisdom (prajna).
		The Daju languages are classified in the Eastern Sudanic group of the Nilo-Saharan language family.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9067740 (414 words)

	More Women Rulers - Women in World History Curriculum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Maria Theresa of Hapsburg, Empress of Austria (1724 - 1780)
		"Empress Maria Theresia was the first woman on a throne in middle Europe, ruled over a empire inhabited by different peoples (Hungary, Austrians, Germans, etc.) Frederic II of Prussia was her principal enemy and she proved to be his equal.
		Her portrait on coins, the Maria Theresia Taler was worldfamous and spread all over the world.
	www.womeninworldhistory.com /rulers-more.html (7112 words)

	Sila María Calderón Serra
		Sila María Calderón Serra nació en San Juan, el 23 de septiembre de 1942.
		De todos los logros y reconocimientos que ha recibido Sila M. Calderón en una vida dedicada al servicio público y a su Pueblo, el más importante es su familia.
		Desde hace 21 años, Sila M. Calderón está casada con Adolfo Krans, empresario de seguros y padre de cinco hijos: Kenneth, Kendall, Gretchen, Katina y Karuscha.
	www.angelfire.com /ny/conexion/calderon_sila_maria.html (905 words)

	CAAB - Vieques, Puerto Rico/ US imperial Navy sends scolding to colonial governor - 31/10/02 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Upon obtaining copy of the letter sent recently by Secretary of the Navy, Gordon England to the Governor of Puerto Rico, Sila María Calderón, the Viequenses understand that there is absolutely no official guarantee the Navy will leave the island.
		Spokespersons for the CRDV warned about not falling into the trap of the Navy and the politicians who would have us lower the guard and make it easier to continue military activity here.
		In Vieques, we are preparing to confront the next bombing exercises, scheduled for January or February and announced in England´s letter to Sila.
	cndyorks.gn.apc.org /caab/articles/vieques185.htm (414 words)

	Hotel Calderon Barcelona (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Pedro Calderón de la Barca 24: H Breymann, ''Calderon* -Studien'' (Munchen and Berlin, 1905), i.
		Teil, co 31: FWV Schmidt, ''Die Schauspiele Calderon* 's'' (Elberfeld, 1857) 32: E Guenthner, ''Calderon* und seine Werke'' (Freiburg i.
		Foreign relations of Costa Rica 7: erican integration process under former President Calderon.
	www.lottery-news.net /dust10704-hotel_calderon_barcelona.html (751 words)

	This year's NYC Puerto Rican Day Parade will be dedicated to governor Sila Calderon
		This year's NYC Puerto Rican Day Parade will be dedicated to governor Sila María Calderón.
		"Sila María Calderón made history for becoming the first women to be elected by majority votes as Governor of Puerto Rico and her triumph has served as inspiration for the feminist movement at a global level," she said.
		The parade is also dedicated to Ramón Vélez, president and founder of the parade and to the Municipal of Vega Alta.
	www.hispanicsurf.com /NYC_parade_2001_dedicated_to_calderon-0301.htm (270 words)

	CAAB - Vieques, Puerto Rico/ US imperial Navy sends scolding to colonial governor - 31/10/02 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Upon obtaining copy of the letter sent recently by Secretary of the Navy, Gordon England to the Governor of Puerto Rico, Sila María Calderón, the Viequenses understand that there is absolutely no official guarantee the Navy will leave the island.
		Spokespersons for the CRDV warned about not falling into the trap of the Navy and the politicians who would have us lower the guard and make it easier to continue military activity here.
		In Vieques, we are preparing to confront the next bombing exercises, scheduled for January or February and announced in England´s letter to Sila.
	www.cndyorks.gn.apc.org /caab/articles/vieques185.htm (414 words)

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