Polls show Obama maintains a strong lead among Hispanic voters, but both campaigns are still gunning for vital swing state Barack Obama needs to increase his appeal among Puerto Ricans living in the central zone of Florida if he is to win the crucial battleground state in the race to return him to the White House, in-house polls are indicating. The Obama for America re-election campaign is focusing...
White House rivals visit Florida to speak on Spanish-language TV in effort to address key concerns of diverse Latino electorate As if his week needed to become any more challenging, Mitt Romney will appear in Miami on Wednesday to face some tough questions from a key group of voters crucial to his hopes of winning the White House Florida's Hispanics. The Republican presidential candidate, already in...
Metro International is expanding its push into Latin America by launching a version of its free daily in Puerto Rico's capital, San Juan. Preview copies will be available today. Metro is already the largest title across Latin America, with nearly 3m readers in Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Guatemala and Colombia. ...
Cruz: 'I have always been and always will be a proud gay man' Featherweight boxer says he wants to be true to himself Orlando Cruz from San Juan, Puerto Rico and ranked the No4 featherweight by the World Boxing Organisation (WBO) has openly admitted his is "a proud, gay man". He added: "I've been fighting for more than 24 years and as I continue my ascendant career I want to be true...
Police say thief drove away refrigerated van from distribution centre in Hatillo A thief in Puerto Rico has got away with the makings of an enormous frittata. Police in the North American territory say they are looking for someone who stole more than $22,000 worth of chicken eggs. They did not specify exactly how many eggs were in the missing shipment. Officers said on Friday that a refrigerated truck...
immediately turned around' The US Coast Guard was searching on Sunday for a Canadian passenger who jumped off a Royal Caribbean Cruises ship as it motored off a remote Puerto Rican island toward the US territory's mainland. In a statement, the Coast Guard identified the missing man as Tien Phuoc Nguyen, a 26-year-old Canadian citizen who was on the final night of a seven-night Caribbean cruise with...
s cavernous warehouse, evidence of the historic rush of people abandoning Puerto Rico. The economy has been in recession for nearly eight years, crimping tax revenue and pushing the jobless rate to nearly 15%. Meanwhile, the government is burdened by staggering debt, spawning comparisons to bankrupt Detroit and forcing lawmakers to severely slash pensions, cut government jobs and raise taxes in a furious...
s most famous salsa band to rewrite one of their most famous songs has been awarded top prize at a biennial awards ceremony. JWT Puerto Rico created a campaign for Banco Popular in Puerto Rico, taking a song celebrating laziness, No Hago Más Ná , by El Gran Combo, and converting it into a celebration of hard work. The campaign helped the bank, the largest on the island, to advertise its need for workers,...
ve had, you've always been there for [me]. "I'm a little bit nervous, but that aside, I want to tell you and share with your friends and my friends that if you want to marry me? "I want to share my life with you and want to be with you always, and support you 100%, and you support me 100%. I like you a lot, I love you and I look forward to your answer." Cruz didn't have to wait long. Manuel accepted...
Puerto Rico has an HIV/Aids infection rate nearly four times the US national average – and over half of these come from injection drug use Alexander Hotz ...
s just after noon in the hills of Cayey, and life in this sleepy Puerto Rican mountain town continues at a predictable pace. Old men lounge in a local park swapping stories amid the sweltering heat. Stores and diners bustle with customers, and the local church, Nuestra Señora de la Asunción, rings its bells on the hour. Nearby, hidden behind a thicket of lush trees and tall grass, Cecilio Camacho expertly...
Hundreds of mourners gathered to pay their respects to the late Puerto Rican boxer Hector Camacho on Tuesday ...
s close acquaintance with drugs and drink, not to mention 100 amateur fights, 88 more as a professional and countless skirmishes on the streets of New York, where he grew up, Camacho had kept his attractiveness to the opposite sex, and knew it. The stories had already gone down in boxing folklore by the time he fought a faded Sugar Ray Leonard in Atlantic City in 1997. Camacho claimed to have been...
El voto pro-estadidad del plebicsito no dará frutos, pero sí expresa el disgusto de los puertorriqueños al sentirse ciudadanos americanos de segunda clase • Versión en ingles El pasado martes 6 de Noviembre, en una tumultuosa elección, Puerto Rico eligió a un nuevo gobernador. Tambien votó a favor de la opción para la estadidad en el cuarto plebiscito, que se ha estado celebrando en la isla desde...
anger at being second-class Americans In a tumultuous election on Tuesday 6 November, Puerto Rico elected a new governor and voted in favor of statehood in the fourth status plebiscite to be held on the island since 1967. While it is the first time that the statehood option has won, it is far from clear, for several reasons, that this will affect Puerto Rico's status in the near future. In many ways,...
s referendum Puerto Ricans have supported US statehood in a vote that jubilant members of the pro-statehood party say is the strongest sign yet that the Caribbean island territory is on the road to losing its second-class status. But Tuesday's vote comes with a caveat: the island remains bitterly divided over its relationship to the US and many question the validity of this week's referendum. Nearly...
voice for the voiceless' Veronica Romero was belting it out for Mitt Romney. Her band, Punto y Coma, flipped between Cuban and Puerto Rican numbers for a crowd of Republican supporters in Kissimmee, a central Florida town next to Disneyworld where a surge in Hispanic residents since the last presidential election is shaking up old assumptions about the Latino vote in an important swing state. The Cuban...
m not alone in scorning the media overkill on hurricane Sandy. My colleague Michael White has rightly noted the over-the-top coverage and scores of commenters to our live blog have been underwhelmed by the attention paid to a storm simply because it struck the United States. That last point is the most telling of all. Hundreds of people die from hurricanes in other countries every year without the...
s gay. Time for sporting bodies to lessen the drama Since the carefully and successfully choreographed outing of Welsh rugby ace Gareth Thomas there has been a slow but steady drip-feed of sportsmen following his lead. Not all of them will be given the plaudit of a Hollywood biopic pitch, but each has added a layer to the snowball of sporting inclusivity. A Swedish footballer, an English cricketer...
always been and always will be a proud gay man' Openly gay men remain an unsurprising rarity in the insular, clannish and occasionally juvenile world of professional sport. The few who have chosen to come out have tended to do so at or near the end of their career, like rugby's Gareth Thomas and the former NBA star John Amaechi . Consider then the courage of Orlando Cruz to announce himself a "proud...