For non-Puerto Ricans (and many Puerto Ricans, too), it was a confusing mix of signals.
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Police said Mr Henley stayed in the resorts of Puerto de Santiago and Puerto de la Cruz.
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And it appears Puerto Ricans living stateside are as divided on this question as those in Puerto Rico.
The government of Puerto Rico estimates that the cancer rate among Vieques's citizens is 27% higher than the Puerto Rican average.
There are now more Puerto Ricans living stateside than in Puerto Rico.
About 100 police officers in Puerto Rico are currently under investigation by the Puerto Rico Department of Justice for aiding in drug trafficking.
Alongside very poor Puerto Ricans in areas such as the South Bronx, there are growing middle-class Puerto Rican neighborhoods in the New York suburbs.
In the end, Sol Food is a great California eatery that serves Puerto Rican food, not just a great Puerto Rican eatery in California.
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Fast forward to today: The 800, 000 Puerto Ricans in New York City represent about 20 percent of the more than 4 million Puerto Ricans living stateside.
The fastest-growing Puerto Rican settlements in the States are in Florida and the South, not in the Northeast and Midwest where Puerto Ricans traditionally migrated.
San Juan, Puerto Rico's biggest city, "is the sexy younger sister of New York, " says Sotirios Kotoulas, a Canadian-born New York architect and professor at the University of Puerto Rico.
Cotto is a legend in his native Puerto Rico and Schaefer thinks Cotto will be the leading boxing promoter for Puerto Rican fighters, who will want to align themselves with Cotto.
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"We have been asking the federal government to help us patrol ... the Puerto Rican coasts, which we are unable to cover entirely by ourselves, " Puerto Rico Gov. Luis Fortuno said Wednesday.
This strange and not untroubled history has pushed Puerto Ricans to forge, as Jorge Duany, author of "The Puerto Rican Nation on the Move, " argues, a cultural identity instead of a nationalist one.
Tropical Storm Irene dissipated and moved into Canada, but in its path as a hurricane we started out in the Virgin Isles and Puerto Rico, which most of the damages were in Puerto Rico.
More than 800, 000 Puerto Ricans live there today, and if Florida had been quicker to count its votes, Puerto Ricans in that state would have been portrayed as the kingmakers of the 2012 election.
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But as the daughter of a Puerto Rico-born father, she also knows the real thing when it comes to Puerto Rican cooking (she also spent a few years on the island learning the craft).
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Native to Central and South America, iguanas arrived in Puerto Rico in the 1970s as part of the pet trade, says Rafael Joglar, a biology professor at the University of Puerto Rico who has studied the animals.
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On the following Monday, Fortuno proposed a large tax cut for Puerto Rican families and domestic businesses, for which he has been widely praised by U.S. conservatives, many of whom consider him a supply-sider and maybe even a Puerto Rican Ronald Reagan.
The fluid nature of the state's electorate is driven in large part by an influx of Puerto Ricans -- who are eligible vote the moment they arrive because of Puerto Rico's status as a U.S. territory -- along with growing Dominican, Colombian, Mexican and Venezuelan populations.
Because every day, Boricuas help write the American story. (Applause.) Puerto Rican artists contribute to our culture -- and by the way, I don't know if you noticed, but Marc Anthony decided to show up here today. (Applause.) Puerto Rican entrepreneurs create American jobs.
In contrast, if a bill now before Congress in Washington is passed, Puerto Ricans will vote next year whether to decide their island should become the 51st state and so end a half-in half-out relationship that has been evolving ever since Puerto Rico was removed from Spanish rule in 1898.
And so the issue for us is if the plebiscite, if the referendum that takes place in Puerto Rico indicates that there's a strong preference from a majority of the Puerto Rican people, I think that will influence how Congress approaches any actions that might be taken to address status issues.
For anyone following events in Puerto Rico, this was the year, of course, that Puerto Rico formally voted to reject its status quo identity as a commonwealth of the US while simultaneously voting in as governor a leader of the PPD, the party most closely identified with defending the status quo.
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But pinning mofongo to a specific place in Puerto Rico is challenging, if not outright impossible.
This glamorous clientele sips bubbly champagne cocktails and highballs like the 1950s Puerto Rican classic, Campari Cooler.
Ducking in to El Jibarito on Calle Sol, Puerto Rican flags hung proudly from the walls.
For an upscale night out, head to Puerto Madero alongside the eastern Rio de le Plata riverbank.
The ship departed the wind-blasted town of Puerto Natales at first light, with passengers boarding the night before.
Mr. Berger: As far as I know, Puerto Rico is still part of the United States.
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