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| | Governor of Puerto Rico - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico presents the oath: | | | On July 25, 1952, the Constitution of Puerto Rico was approved by the United States' Congress. | | | The Governor also has the power to appoint Justices to the Supreme Court and all the lower courts of the island. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_Puerto_Rico
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| | Puerto Rico - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Puerto Rico is not ranked because it is a commonwealth of 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. | | | A non-voting Resident Commissioner is elected by the residents of Puerto Rico to the U.S. Congress acting as a delegate of the people of Puerto Rico. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rico
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| | History of Puerto Rico |
| | Blanton Winship was appointed Governor of Puerto Rico, Elisha Francis Riggs Chief of Police, and Robert A. Cooper Judge of the Tribunal of the United States in Puerto Rico. | | | Porto Rico (258 U.S. 308) the U.S. Supreme Court declared that Puerto Rico was a territory rather than a part of the Union. | | | The party campaings for Puerto Rico to become one of the States in the United States. |
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http://welcome.topuertorico.org/history5.shtml
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| | PUERTO RICO HERALD: Should the Governor of Puerto Rico Endorse Mainland Political Candidates? |
| | The Governor represents the interests of 3.8 million American citizens of Hispanic origin in Puerto Rico who, although they cannot vote in mainland elections, can be seen as part of a growing Hispanic political force in the United States, now being assiduously wooed by candidates of both mainland political parties. | | | They either emigrated from Puerto Rico or are offspring of one or both parents who left the island to take up residency in the fifty states. | | | The past four Republican Presidents have openly favored statehood for Puerto Rico and George W. Bush seems to be leaning in that direction also. |
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http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/2002/vol6n22/Poll0622-en.shtml
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| | PUERTO RICO HERALD: The Governor’s Hypocrisy |
| | Carlos Romero Barceló is a two-term former governor of Puerto Rico (1977-84), a two-term former resident commissioner (1993-2000), and a two-term former mayor of San Juan (1969-78). | | | It seems many people in Puerto Rico believed the governor when, right after the elections and before he was declared winner against all reason and electoral tradition, he proclaimed that he wanted to share the government with the Senate and the House. | | | One glaring example is the candidate for secretary of Justice, Sánchez Ramos, who has shown his partisan political fangs, his hypocrisy, his political partisanship, and tendency to persecute all statehooders; yet Acevedo refuses to withdraw the appointment. |
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http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues2/2005/vol09n12/CBGovHypoc.shtml
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| | History of Puerto Rico |
| | On July 25, the New Constitution is approved by voters in a referendum in March, and Puerto Rico is proclaimed as Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, although remained a territory of the United States. | | | President Bush appointed Antonia Novello, a navita of Puerto Rico, to be Surgeon General of the United States. | | | On November 7, Rafael Hernández Colón is elected governor, with 50.7% of thw vote, becoming the youngest elected governor, at age 36. |
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http://welcome.topuertorico.org/history6.shtml
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| | Puerto Rico's Woman Governor Takes on U.S. Navy - 22/4/01 |
| | Puerto Ricans have fought in every major war this century but they cannot vote for president and they have one non-voting representative in Congress. | | | Puerto Ricans will also have a chance to vote on a referendum on whether the Navy should leave the island in three years or be permitted to stay indefinitely. | | | Sila Calderon's uncompromising stance on Vieques--and Puerto Rico's complex relationship with the United States--helped catapult her pro-commonwealth Popular Democratic Party to victory last November over the pro-statehood New Progressive Party of two-term Gov. Pedro Rossello. |
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http://cndyorks.gn.apc.org/caab/articles/vieques29.htm
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| | Puerto Rico |
| | Puerto Rico's governor is elected directly for a four-year term. | | | Puerto Rico remained economically undeveloped until 1830, when sugarcane, coffee, and tobacco plantations were gradually developed. | | | From 1940 to 1968, Puerto Rican politics was dominated by a party advocating voluntary association with the U.S. Since then, the New Progressive Party, a party favoring U.S. statehood, has won five of the last eight gubernatorial elections. |
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http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0113949.html
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| | U.S. Newswire : Release : Bhatia Supports Efforts of Governor of Puerto Rico to Advance Status Initiative; PRFAA will ... |
| | PRFAA serves as the mainland offices of the Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, advancing the Commonwealth's initiatives before the U.S. Congress and federal agencies, promoting economic and public policies important to the growth and empowerment of Puerto Rico. | | | While the Governor favors the Constitutional Assembly on Status, he strongly believes it should be the people of Puerto Rico who should make the final decision. | | | Governor Acevedo-Vila's proposed legislation advocates for a referendum on July 10, 2005 where voters in Puerto Rico will have the option of determining one of two procedural mechanisms that will advance the status issue. |
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http://releases.usnewswire.com/printing.asp?id=43054
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| | List of Puerto Ricans Encyclopedia Article @ LocalColorArt.com |
| | Judge José A. Cabranes,educator, first Puerto Rican to serve as a U.S. Circuit Court judge in the federal court in the continental United States. | | | Kenneth McClintock, President of the Puerto Rico Senate | | | Nilita Vientos Gaston, educator, defended the use of Spanish in the courts of Puerto Rico |
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http://www.localcolorart.com/encyclopedia/List_of_Puerto_Ricans
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| | CNN.com - Luis Ferre, prominent Puerto Rican figure, dies - Oct. 21, 2003 |
| | 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. | | | He remained chairman of the island's branch of the Republican Party and served as Puerto Rico's Senate president from 1977-80. | | | 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. |
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http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/americas/10/21/obit.ferre.ap
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| | Puerto Rico - Atlapedia Online |
| | In 1952 Puerto Rico was granted a new constitution and became a Commonwealth in association with the USA. | | | In 1976 Carlos Romero Barcelo was elected Governor and was reelected in 1980. | | | MODERN HISTORY - WWII TO 1991: In 1947 the US Congress amended the Jones Act to permit Puerto Ricans to elect their own Governor and in 1949 Luis Munoz Marin was inaugurated as the first elected Governor of Puerto Rico. |
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http://www.atlapedia.com/online/countries/puertori.htm
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| | Puerto Rico Governor Not to Seek Reelection |
| | The first woman to become Governor of Puerto Rico emphasized that, when her 4-year term ends in December 2004, she will have served 8 consecutive years in an elected position, 4 as Governor and 4 as Mayor of San Juan. | | | This is the first time in Puerto Rico's history that an elected governor does not seek reelection. | | | In order to dismiss doubts as to her efficacy as Governor during the remainder of her term, Calderón was emphatic in [pledging to] work with the greatest drive. |
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/918282/posts
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| | Island Sweepstakes: San Juan Mayor First Woman Governor of Puerto Rico (11/20/00) |
| | At stake are the races for Mayors of the Island's 78 municipalities, the Commonwealth legislature, and, in addition to Governor, the seat of Puerto Rico's non-voting delegate in the United States Congress. | | | Calderon is replaced by Puerto Rican Senator Jorge Santini Padilla as the new Mayor of San Juan for a four-year term. | | | Romero, also a former Governor of Puerto Rico, has served for eight years in Congress. |
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http://usmayors.org/uscm/us_mayor_newspaper/documents/11_20_00/san_juan.htm
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| | glbtq >> discussion >> View topic - Puerto Rico governor is dumb about gay marriage... |
| | Puerto Rico governor is dumb about gay marriage... | | | One day the Puerto Rican gay community receives good news from the highly intelligent Academic Senate of the University of Puerto Rico and the next day Puerto Rico's dumb-dumb governor kicks the gay voters in the teeth with his decision to do the opposite of UPR. | | | The primary reason for the Governor of Puerto Rico's stance on gay marriage is that he is dumb! |
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http://www.glbtq.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?t=448
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| | Hurricane of 1932, from the Annual Report of the Governor of Puerto Rico, 1933 |
| | Pursuant to law, I have the honor to submit herewith the report of the Governor of Puerto Rico for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1933. | | | Ira K. Wells, Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, with whom were appointed Mr. | | | The other members of the Executive Committee were: Colonel George L. Byroade, 65th Infantry, and Chief Justice Emilio del Toro of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico. |
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http://newdeal.feri.org/pr/pr12.htm
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| | PUERTO RICO HERALD: Who Will be the Next Governor of Puerto Rico? |
| | Her mantel fell on José Alfredo Hernández Mayoral, son of the former three-term Governor Rafael Hernández Colón. | | | Carlos Pesquera is still adamant that he will challenge former Governor Pedro Rosselló; in a November, 2003, primary election for the New Progressive Party (NPP) candidacy, although he is given virtually no chance of winning. | | | He had left San Juan in 2001, his party defeated and a corruption investigation of his administration in full swing, to take a teaching post at a Washington, D.C., medical school, telling friends and supporters that he was done with the madness of island politics. |
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http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/2003/vol7n23/Poll0723-en.shtml
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| | Faleomavaega (AS00) - Washington, D.C.—Governor of Puerto Rico Supports Faleomavega’s Efforts to Extend 936 Tax ... |
| | Congressman Faleomavaega announced today that the Honorable Anibal Acevedo-Vila, Governor of Puerto Rico, has sent letters to the Chairman and Ranking Members of the Senate Finance and House Ways and Means Committees, as well as to Senator Orrin Hatch and Congressman Jim McCrery, supporting the extension of 936 tax credits for American Samoa. | | | “Prior to being elected Governor, the Honorable Acevedo-Vila was a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives and we served together on the Resources Committee. | | | Today, Governor Acevedo-Vila stands with the people of American Samoa once more and, again, I thank him for his friendship and endorsement,” Faleomavaega concluded. |
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http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/as00_faleomavaega/prsupport936.html
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| | Anibal Acevedo Vila officially declared new governor of Puerto Rico North County Times - North San Diego and Southwest ... |
| | SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- The Puerto Rico elections commission on Tuesday certified that Anibel Acevedo Vila won the governor race, a victory for a politician who supports the island's status as U.S. territory. | | | The announcement brought to a close a two-month recount and a court challenge from chief rival Pedro Rossello, a supporter of statehood who served as Puerto Rico's governor from 1993 until 2001. | | | Anibal Acevedo Vila officially declared new governor of Puerto Rico North County Times - North San Diego and Southwest Riverside County News - NCTimes.com - Californian.com |
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http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/12/29/election2004/20_33_5312_28_04.txt
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| | Puerto Rico |
| | Judicial branch: Supreme Court, justices appointed by the governor with the consent of the Senate; Superior Courts, justices appointed by the governor with the consent of the Senate; Municipal Courts, justices appointed by the governor with the consent of the Senate | | | cabinet: NA elections: governor of Puerto Rico elected by popular vote for a four-year term; election last held 5 November 1996 (next to be held 7 November 2000) | | | Legislative branch: bicameral Legislative Assembly consists of the Senate (28 seats; members are directly elected by popular vote to serve four-year terms) and the House of Representatives (54 seats; members are directly elected by popular vote to serve four-year terms) |
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http://www.cultureconnect.com/facts/rq.htm
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| | Hispanic Business - Governor of Puerto Rico to Address The City Club of Cleveland Thursday, June 10 |
| | In 1985, Governor Hernandez appointed Calderon the first woman chief of staff for the commonwealth and two years later as Puerto Rico's secretary of state. | | | She later attended the Graduate School of Public Administration of the University of Puerto Rico and received several honorary doctorate degrees. | | | CLEVELAND, June 9 /PRNewswire/ -- The Honorable Sila Maria Calderon, Governor of Puerto Rico will address the City Club of Cleveland at a special Forum Thursday, June 10, 2004 at 12:30pm. |
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http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/news/newsbyid.asp?id=16560
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| | BBC News AMERICAS Puerto Rico governor approves presidential vote |
| | Puerto Rico is a commonwealth territory of the United States -- a special status under which islanders are US citizens but do not vote for president unless they are resident in the United States, and have only a non-voting representative in Congress. | | | The governor of Puerto Rico, Pedro Rossello, has signed a controversial law allowing islanders to vote in the United States presidential elections for the first time. | | | The measure -- which was approved by the Puerto Rican parliament on Saturday -- follows a ruling by a US federal judge that Puerto Ricans have the right to take part in the presidential ballot. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/919412.stm
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| | Workers World Dec. 30, 1999: Puerto Rico governor admits spying |
| | The Puerto Rican Superior Court had ruled that after June of that year the remaining unclaimed files were to be stored in the Confidential Archives, inaccessible to the public for a period of 10 years, until 2003. | | | Why is the current governor of Puerto Rico apologizing now? | | | Although the Gag Law was derogated in 1957, the practice of surveillance of independentistas continued, as shown by the "Carpetas." |
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http://www.workers.org/ww/1999/vieques1230.php
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| | Puerto Rico |
| | Puerto Rico is a non-incorporated territory of the United States, so it has no Armed Forces of her own. | | | Puerto Rico - Coat of Arms and Seal | | | Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico |
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| | Forty-Forth Annual Report of the Governor of Puerto Rico, 1944 (Excerpts) |
| | On September 23, 1943, the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico decided that. | | | Appeal from this decision was taken on December 22, 1943, to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, where it was pending on June 30, 1944. | | | Excerpts from the Forty-Forth Annual Report of the Governor of Puerto Rico (1944). |
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http://newdeal.feri.org/pr/pr11.htm
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| | Harvard Gazette: Harvard Foundation honors governor of Puerto Rico |
| | A native of San Juan, Calderón was elected governor of Puerto Rico in 2000 after a very successful political initiative in which she used the slogan "We want change." She is the first woman to be elected governor of the commonwealth, after serving as secretary of state and later as mayor of San Juan. | | | Harvard Gazette: Harvard Foundation honors governor of Puerto Rico | | | For her leadership in government and humanitarian causes, the Harvard Foundation will honor Gov. Sila Calderón of Puerto Rico at a reception this Friday (Oct. 17). |
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http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2003/10.16/06-calderon.html
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| | History of Puerto Rico I |
| | After Puerto Rico’s sovereignty was given to the USA, José De Diego became a member of the House of Delegates and later a member of the House of Representatives, also he presided both legislative bodies. | | | He was known for his brilliant public speeches. | | | , José De Diego occupied the position of Sub-secretary of Justice and Sub-secretary to the Governor. |
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http://www.solboricua.com/history.htm
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| | Daly Thoughts » Corzine endorsed by Puerto Rico governor |
| | The governor of Puerto Rico endorsed U.S. Sen. Jon Corzine Monday in his bid to become New Jersey governor, a move Democrats said shows they won’t take the state’s Hispanic vote for granted. | | | Puerto Rico Governor Anibal Acevedo Vila announced his backing for Corzine, who faces Republican Doug Forrester in November, during a visit to a preschool in Camden… | | | Daly Thoughts » Corzine endorsed by Puerto Rico governor |
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http://dalythoughts.com/?p=3994
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| | APP.COM v4.0 - Puerto Rico governor endorses Corzine Asbury Park Press Online |
| | CAMDEN: Puerto Rico Governor Anibal Acevedo Vila endorsed U.S. Sen. Jon Corzine Monday in his bid to become New Jersey governor, a move Democrats said shows they won't take the state's Hispanic vote for granted. | | | APP.COM v4.0 - Puerto Rico governor endorses Corzine | | | Acevedo Vila came to Camden from Philadelphia, where he was attending the annual meeting of the National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic civil-rights organization. |
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http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050719/NEWS03/507190320/1007
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| | Former governor of Puerto Rico was MIT alumnus - MIT News Office |
| | A member of the assembly that wrote Puerto Rico's constitution in 1952, he founded the New Progressive Party in 1967 and served as governor from 1969 to 1973. | | | Former governor of Puerto Rico was MIT alumnus | | | Former governor of Puerto Rico was MIT alumnus - MIT News Office |
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http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2003/ferre.html
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| | PUERTO RICO |
| | Regulations must be a promulgation pursuant to the provisions of Public Law No. 170 of August 12, 1988, as amended, known as the "Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Uniform Administrative Procedure Act." | | | HB 595 was signed July 23, 1998 by the Governor of Puerto Rico and is immediately effective. | | | This is the result of a breed between bulldogs and terriers. |
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http://www.rott-n-chatter.com/rottweilers/laws/puertorico.html
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| | Interior Secretary, Puerto Rico Governor Appoint New Leadership to Board of Trustees of The Conservation Trust of ... |
| | Interior Secretary, Puerto Rico Governor Appoint New Leadership to Board of Trustees of The Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico | | | Trustees are selected for three-year terms by mutual agreement of the governor of Puerto Rico and the secretary of the Interior. | | | WASHINGTON, D.C. - Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton and Governor of Puerto Rico Anibal Acevedo Vila have jointly appointed two new members and reappointed another member to the board of trustees of The Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico. |
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http://www.doi.gov/news/05_News_Releases/050518a
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| | Puerto Rico |
| | Sila M. Calderon First women governor of Puerto Rico | | | It was designed in the 1890's by the Puerto Rican Section of the Cuban Revolutionary Party in solidarity with their cause. | | | Five equal horizontal bands of red (top and bottom) alternating with white; a blue isosceles triangle based on the hoist side bears a large white five-pointed star in the center; the design of the Puerto Rican flag was not based on the United States flag, but rather on the Cuban flag. |
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| | Governor of Puerto Rico denies harassing press |
| | SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Puerto Rico's governor rejected charges that he is trying to muzzle the island's feisty news media Monday, calling the claims "an insult to the entire people" of the Caribbean island. | | | On Sunday, Puerto Rican delegates to the IAPA conference said there was evidence Rossello has denied reporters access to public documents. | | | Forged at an IAPA-organized conference in Mexico City in 1994, the declaration establishes guidelines for protecting freedom of expression and of the press. |
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http://chron.com/content/chronicle/world/98/03/17/iapa-press-freedom.2-0.html
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| | Experience Puerto Rico |
| | Ducati de Puerto Rico offers a great variety of more... | | | Explore the wonders of the universe at the world’s largest radio more... | | | This 18 hole championship golf course, located at the new Embassy Suites more... |
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http://www.experience-puertorico.com/pr.html?secc=tours
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| | 1/30/98 Puerto Rico Governor's Letter |
| | Sometime this weekend, that vessel is expected to transit the Mona Passage that separates the islands of Puerto Rico and Hispaniola. | | | The freighter Pacific Swan -- which departed France on January 21, 1998, bound for Japan -- has entered Caribbean waters en route to the Panama Canal. | | | Reportedly aboard the Pacific Swan are at least 60 tons of nuclear waste material. |
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