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Videoteca del Sur 17th Anniversary Celebration

November 1, 2009Corrientesauthor, Bay of Pigs, Che Guevara, Cuba, Fidel Castro, Saul Landau, United Statesescalona

Videoteca del Sur
1989 – 2006
17th ANNIVERSARY

presents

FIDEL
Dir.: Saul Landau CUBA – USA 96’

This documentary is a personal profile of Fidel Castro and a view of the developments since the revolution teen years before. There are a lot of images of Fidel: listening to complaints, arguing, laughing and philosophizing. As he is traveling the countryside in a jeep with the film crew, he is trying to explain the Cuban revolutionary experience. There is beautiful footage of the Bay of Pigs invasion, and of Fidel and Che Guevara in the mountains. Classical made in 1969 by outstanding author and filmmaker Saul Landau.

Documental que traza un retrato personal de Fidel Castro dando una mirada al desarrollo de los diez primeros años de la revolución cubana de 1959. Incluye abundante imágenes de Fidel: escuchando las peticiones de su pueblo, discutiendo, riendo y filosofando. Mientras viaja en un jeep a través del país Fidel trata de explicar la experiencia revolucionaria cubana al equipo de filmación que lo acompaña.
Clásico realizado en 1969 por el destacado documentalista estadounidense Saul Landau.

Tuesday, September 5 7:30pm

Millennium Film Workshop
66 East 4th Street
between Bowery & 2nd Ave., downtown Manhattan
Trains F to 2nd Ave. or #6 to Blecker St.
info: (212) 673-0090

next program / próximo programa:
September 12

Un Dia en El Barrio/A day in El Barrio

November 1, 2009Corrientesauthor, Camaradas del Barrio Bar, Camaradas NO Cover Camaradas del Barrio Bar, Carolina Gonzalez, East Harlem Board of Tourism, Joseph Vasquez, Julia de Burgos, Maite Junco, Modesto Flores Garden of Hope Community Lexington Avenue, New York, Nueva York, poet, Seth Kugel, www.eastharlemtourism.org, www.nuevayorkguide.comescalona

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 • 2:00 PM – 12:00 AM

Kick-off Hispanic Heritage Month in El Barrio with these events:

2PM: Meet the Author: Carolina Gonzalez and Seth Kugel talk about their new book on Latin New York called Nueva York. Maite Junco moderates.

MediaNoche
161 East 106th Street (between Lexington and Third Avenues)
212.828.0401
www.prdream.com

2:30 PM: Poetas con Café – season finale,
featuring a tribute to the Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos
Modesto Flores Garden of Hope Community
Lexington Avenue, between 104th and 105th Streets

3 PM: Destination: El Barrio Walking Tour
Meet at Southeast corner of Fifth Avenue and 104^th Street
East Harlem Board of Tourism
164 East 116^th Street
ehtourism@aol.com
www.eastharlemtourism.org

5 PM: Community reception and “meet and greet” the authors
Camaradas del Barrio Bar & Restaurant
2241 First Avenue at 115th Street
212-348-2703

7 PM: Film screening, “Hangin’ with the Homeboys”
Directed by Joseph Vasquez
In English, Color, 35mm, 89 minutes, 1991
The Nuyorican film classic that launched John Leguizamo’s career and put da Bronx back on the map!

MediaNoche
161 East 106th Street (between Lexington and Third Avenues)
212 828 0401
www.prdream.com

10 PM: Live music at Camaradas NO Cover
Camaradas del Barrio Bar & Restaurant
2241 First Avenue at 115th Street
212-348-2703

Hosted by the East Harlem Board of Tourism. For more information, call212.876.1242
or visit www.eastharlemtourism.org or www.nuevayorkguide.com

The State of Puerto Rican Politics in New York City

November 1, 2009CorrientesAlicia Cardona, Angelo Falc, Anthropology, Arlene Davila, Associate Professor, author, Chair, City College, Co-editor, David Diaz Distinguished Lecturer, East Coast Latino Voting Rights Act Reauthorization Manual, Gotham, Houston Street, Ideas and Action, Island University-Brooklyn, Joseph Wiscovitch President, Latinos Inc., Long Island University, Melissa Mark Viverito, Mickey Melendez, National Institute for Latino Policy, Neoliberal City, New York, New York University, NYU, NYU Wagner The Puck Building, President and Co-Founder, Prince, Professor, Professor of Political Science, Ram, senior correspondent, WNBC-TVescalona

The National Institute for Latino Policy
invites you to a roundtable

Discussion based on José Ramón Sánchez’ new book
Boricua Power: A Political History of Puerto Ricans in the United States

Tuesday, May 15, 6:15pm

NYU Wagner
The Puck Building, 2nd Floor Conference Room
295 Lafayette Street (and Houston Street)
New York, NY 10012-9604

(B,D,F,V to Broadway-Lafayette, N,R,W to Prince Street, 6 to Bleecker Street)

Roundtable Participants

Alicia Cardona
Author: Rambling on Random Thoughts and New York Puerto Rican Women Achievers

Arlene Davila:
Professor, Anthropology, Social and Cultural Analysis (American Studies)
New York University, author: Barrio Dreams: Puerto Ricans, Latinos and the Neoliberal City; Latinos, Inc.: The Marketing and Making of a People; and Sponsored Identities: Cultural Politics in Puerto Rico

David Diaz
Distinguished Lecturer in Media & Politics, City College (CUNY);
formerly senior correspondent and anchor on WCBS and WNBC-TV

José A. García
Senior Research and Policy Associate, Demos: A Network for Ideas
and Action; and author, East Coast Latino Voting Rights Act Reauthorization Manual

Mickey Melendez
Author, We Took the Streets: Fighting for Latino Rights with the Young Lords

Councilmember Melissa Mark Viverito
Democrat representing District 8

Joseph Wiscovitch
President, Wiscovitch Associates

Respondent

José Ramón Sánchez
Associate Professor of Political Science and Chair of Urban Studies,
Long Island University-Brooklyn Campus

Moderator

Angelo Falcón
President and Co-Founder, National Institute for Latino Policy; and author, Atlas of Stateside Puerto Ricans,
and co-editor, Boricuas in Gotham: Puerto Ricans in the Making of Modern New York City

Co-sponsored by the

Women of Color Policy Network
at NYUWagner
RSVP with
Wynnie Lamour 212-334-5722 or wlamour@nlcatp.org

QUEER LATINO TESTIMONIO

November 1, 2009CorrientesArnaldo Cruz-Malav, Associate Artistic Director, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of Anthropology, author, C, Director of Pregones Theater, Gay Men, Graduate School, Hard Tails Author, Illinois, Jorge Merced, Juan Rivera, Juanito Xtravaganza, KEITH HARING, LATINO TESTIMONIO Barnes & Noble Bookstore, Martin F. Manalansan IV, Mayra Santos-Febres, meditation, New York, New York City, Pop artist, Professor, Professor of Anthropology, Professor of Comparative Literature, Professor of Hispanic Literatures, Queer Latino Testimonio, R, Robert F. Reid-Pharr, University of Illinois, University of Puerto Ricoescalona

Barnes & Noble Bookstore (Upper Westside)
2289 Broadway at 82nd Street
New York City

Join Us!

Thursday, Oct. 25 at 7:00 p.m.

QUEER LATINO TESTIMONIO, KEITH HARING, AND JUANITO XTRAVAGANZA

Hard Tails

Author Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé will be joined in a reading from his new book by Jorge
Merced, Associate Artistic Director of Pregones Theater, and will sign copies.

In the tradition of the Latin American testimonio, Queer Latino Testimonio is the story of Juan Rivera, a.k.a. Juanito Xtravaganza, a Latino runaway youth who ends up homeless in the streets of New York in the late 70s and becomes partner of the internationally famous 1980s Pop artist Keith Haring during some of the most frenetically productive years of his brief life, as told to the author and retold by him. A hybrid text–part testimonio, part linguistic and cultural analysis, and part art criticism–this is also a history of New York Latino neighborhoods during this
period of devastating disinvestment and gentrification, as well as a personal, heart-felt meditation on the art of listening and the ethical limits of representing queer Latino lives.

Praise for Queer Latino Testimonio, Keith Haring, and Juanito Xtravaganza

“A story of the abject, an urban cultural history, and a literary meditation, Queer Latino Testimonio is a glorious assemblage of voices, images, rhythms, and sensualities of the turbulent last two decades of twentieth century New York City. A stirring portrait of the upheavals, deaths, and hopeful futures of bodies under siege. A marvelous piece of scholarship!”–Martin F. Manalansan IV, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and author of Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora

“Narrated with sensitivity and style, Queer Latino Testimonio reminds us that the greatest of our cultural icons are never simply isolated geniuses, but instead reflections of the messy, funky, difficult, exasperating and exciting realities of everyday life. In a word, the book you hold in your hands is legendary!”–Robert F. Reid-Pharr, Professor of English, CUNY Graduate School, and author of Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual

“A thrilling biography of a character that is both real and imagined, and a fresh vision of what Cultural Studies can become.”–Mayra Santos-Febres, Professor of Hispanic Literatures, University of Puerto Rico, and author of Sirena Selena

“An alluring, uncompromising tale of tails in the waning years of the age of x-travagance, and the dawn of the age of AIDS.”–Rubén Ríos-Avila, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Puerto Rico, and author of La Raza Cómica.

Event is free and open to the public, but subject to change. Please call ahead to confirm. 212-721-5282

A One of a Kind Event – LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE

November 1, 2009CorrientesAssociate Dean, author, Broad, CEO, Co-Founder, Goldman Sachs & Co., Hispanic Professionals Networking Group, Impact Group, Jenny Alonzo, Kaplan University, Leslie Sanchez, Los Republicanos Robert Abreu, Lt. General, Managing Director, Marty Secada, Miami, Mio, New York, New York City, Princeton University, quality peer network, Ricard S. Sanchez, Robert Martinez, Robert Rodriguez, United States Army, USD, Wall Advisors, Yale Club of New Yorkescalona

What: Organizations are grooming their Hispanic executives for leadership at the most senior levels. In many cases however, middle management executives are often left on their own to develop their careers and leadership skills. Leadership extends beyond the corporate world and the decisions they make in the future will have an impact on the Latino community as a whole. Enlightened Latino Leaders will transform the Hispanic community, but the education of those leaders is the key to their progress and development.

This one day conference will showcase the leadership styles, methods, and practices of Latino leaders active in today’s business environment. The key note speakers will cover practical “how-to” advice along with innovative approaches to leadership development. These senior level professionals will cover areas such as foundational skills, navigating through critical business functions, strategy formulation and implementation and personal leadership.

This dynamic gathering of Latino leaders will demonstrate how success is achieved through preparation, determination, mentorship and a quality peer network. The event will be attended by approximately 250 middle management and senior-level Latino professionals, with a focus on the Tri-State region. The 2008 HPNG Latino Leadership Conference in New York City is sponsored in part by, Kaplan University and Martinez Law Group P.C.

Who: Confirmed speakers for the event include:
Robert Rodriguez, Associate Dean of Kaplan University,
Leslie Sanchez, CEO, Impact Group, author Los Republicanos
Robert Abreu, Global Leadership & Diversity, Goldman Sachs & Co.
Marty Secada, Managing Director, Broad & Wall Advisors
Robert Martinez, Diversity & Inclusions, Princeton University
Jenny Alonzo, Co-Founder, Mio.TV
Lt. General Ricard S. Sanchez, United States Army (Ret.)

Where: Yale Club of New York, 50 Vanderbilt Ave
When: Tuesday July 1, 2008
How: Early Bird Special Tickets $225 Register at Event Website

About HPNG: The Hispanic Professionals Networking Group provides opportunities for Hispanic professionals to grow their networks and develop their careers. HPNG hosts networking events and offers professional and personal development workshops in New York and Miami.

PRdream mourns the passing of Edgardo Vega Yunqué

November 1, 2009Corrientesauthor, Cidra, Corner Store, director of the Clemente Soto Velez, East 102nd Street, Edgardo Vega, Edgardo Vega Yunqu, feisty writer, great writer, Impenetrable Loisaida Jungle, Lutheran Hospital, New York, New York City, Puerto Rico, Rebecca Horowitz, SINGER, Suzanne Vega, The Daily News, Tom Colchie, United States, writerescalona

Edgardo Vega Yunqué
1936-2008

He was born May 20, 1936, a date to be commemorated because he was truly a great writer and contributed to a transnational, transcultural body of literature that is so much a part of what New York City really is all about.

(excerpted from The Daily News) The author of 17 novels, who was born in Cidra, Puerto Rico, and lived alone in Brooklyn, died at Lutheran Hospital on Aug. 25, said his agent Tom Colchie. Ed Vega Yunqué was “a great American writer as well as a great Puerto Rican writer,” he added. Vega Yunqué’s novels, such as ‘Blood Fugues’ and ‘Lamentable Journey of Omaha Bigelow Into the Impenetrable Loisaida Jungle,’ are modern classics.” His first novel ‘The Comeback’ was published in 1985.

Ed Vega Yunqué moved to New York from Puerto Rico in the mid 1940s. He was the stepfather of singer Suzanne Vega. The feisty writer was the director of the Clemente Soto Velez from 1993 to 2000.

His last novel was a comic false memoir about a Jewish woman who meets a Puerto Rican Romeo and falls in love. It had been tentatively titled “Rebecca Horowitz, Puerto Rican Sex Freak” but publication was cancelled by the publisher recently, said Colchie, who’d been trying to find another publisher.

FUNERAL SERVICES for Edgardo Vega Yunqué, 1936-2008

Monday, Sept 15, 2008
6:00pm-8:00pm
Soka Gakkai International-USA
7 East 15th Street
New York, NY 10003
212-727-7715

A TRIBUTE TO EDGARDO VEGA YUNQUE

Saturday, November 15, 3PM – 7PM
PRdream/MediaNoche
1355 Park Avenue, Corner Store
at East 102nd Street in Manhattan

A non-stop, ongoing reading of Ed Vega’s “The Lamentable Journey of Omaha Bigelow into the Impenetrable Loisaida Jungle” — Magical Realism comes to Loisaida (and now El Barrio)! Bring your copy!

We are looking for readers who would like to sign up to seriously work on reading for ten to fifteen minutes. Please contact Judy at escalona@prdream.com.

ED VEGA YUNQUÉ, PRDREAM’S TRIBUTE TO THE AUTHOR

November 1, 2009CorrientesAdam Clayton Powell IV, author, Corner Store, East 102nd Street, LOISAIDA JUNGLE, Manhattan Borough, Manhattan Borough President, Melissa Mark Viverito, New York, NYC Councilwoman, President, Reading, Scott Stringer, Senator, www.medianoche.usescalona

“THE LAMENTABLE JOURNEY OF OMAHA BIGELOW INTO THE IMPENETRABLE LOISAIDA JUNGLE”
BY
ED VEGA YUNQUÉ

A TRIBUTE TO THE AUTHOR
NON-STOP READING OF THE NOVEL

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 3PM – 7PM

MediaNoche
1355 Park Avenue, Corner Store
(at East 102nd Street)
New York, NY 10029
www.medianoche.us
212.828.0401

BRING YOUR COPY! IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN READING, CONTACT US
AT info@prdream.com OR CALL US.

MediaNoche is a project of PRdream.com. Its programs are made possible with the support of NYSCA, DCA, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, NYC Councilwoman Melissa Mark-Viverito, NYS Senator José M. Serrano, NYS Assemblyman Adam Clayton Powell IV, and others like you!

View the webcast at blogtv.com at 3PM on Saturday, November 15!
GO TO:
MediaNoche– Broadcast your self LIVE

Reggaeton – a book party

November 1, 2009CorrientesAlexandra T. Vazquez, author, Columbia, Columbia University, Deborah Pacini Hern, Featured Speaker, Floor West Bldg., Frances Negrï¿½n Muntaner, Hunter College, Juan Flores, Lexington Avenue, Miguel Luciano, NYU, Princeton University, Raquel Z. Rivera, visual artist, Wayne Marshallescalona

Meet the Author: Book Party

Reggaeton
An Anthology by Raquel Z. Rivera, Wayne Marshall and Deborah Pacini Hernández

Featured Speaker: Juan Flores, NYU
Presenters: Miguel Luciano, Visual Artist, Alexandra T. Vazquez, Princeton University and Frances Negrón Muntaner, Columbia University.
Music by DJ Mellow G.

Thursday, May 7, 6:30 pm

Faculty Dining Room 8th Floor West Bldg.
Hunter College
68th & Lexington Avenue

http://www.centropr.org/events.html?event=44

Puerto Rico status should be clearly decided

November 1, 2009The Forumauthor, Caribbean, Congress, Ed Morales, Governor, Luis Fortuno, Madison, massive gas explosion, McClatchy, MCT News Service, MTV, MTV awards, Progressive Media Project, Puerto Rico, San Juan, The Progressive, Tribune, U.S. House of Representatives, unemployed worker, United Nations, United States, USD, Wisconsin, writer, www.progressive.orgescalona

MCT News Service
October 29, 2009
Puerto Ricans need to be allowed to vote on changing their political status. The status quo is untenable.

With little fanfare, a bill is circulating in the U.S. House of Representatives that proposes an election that may ultimately decide the fate of Puerto Rico. The bill is needed now more than ever, for the island is gripped in a fiscal and political crisis that can no longer be ignored.

Puerto Rico has been an incorporated territory of the United States since 1898, and its residents were granted U.S. citizenship in 1917. Although the United Nations and much of the world have recognized it as a colony, Puerto Rico’s status as a “free associated state” has resulted in a stagnant economy and mounting political unrest.

It’s been a rough month for Puerto Rico.

First, in an attempt to rectify a financial crisis, the island’s governor, Luis Fortuno, announced the layoff of 17,000 government employees, which was met with massive, angry protest. A few days later, an unemployed worker threw an egg at Fortuno during a news conference, and one of the island’s biggest rap stars insulted the governor on an MTV awards show.

Then, the island’s largest labor unions led a general strike that paralyzed the capital city of San Juan.

Two weeks ago, drug violence took the lives of eight people in a shopping mall. Puerto Rico is suffering under a wave of drug crimes, as efforts to crack down on the illicit trade along the southern border of the United States have had the effect of rerouting it through the Caribbean.

This week, the island is recovering from a massive gas explosion that has cost $6.4 million to put out and may result in long-lasting environmental damage.

The chaos in Puerto Rico is largely a function of its peculiar status.

Since becoming a territory of the United States, Puerto Ricans have wrestled with three political options: “commonwealth” (status quo), statehood, and independence. But this struggle seems to have no endgame, and the people of this island nation are the losers.

By remaining a commonwealth, Puerto Rico has failed to acquire sufficient political power and has become subservient to U.S. economic interests.

Puerto Rico needs to move to a place where its economy can develop autonomously and not just as a subsidiary of U.S. and multinational corporations. It needs to set clear priorities on how to do this, and to finally decide among three options: statehood, a more autonomous version of commonwealth, or independence.

Since by law, Congress ultimately has the last word on the fate of the island, it should pass a plebiscite bill sooner than later. The time for serious discussion about viable alternatives is now. Puerto Rico’s current political system no longer allows for true self-determination, which is the right of every American citizen.

ABOUT THE WRITER

Ed Morales is a writer for Progressive Media Project, a source of liberal commentary on domestic and international issues; it is affiliated with The Progressive magazine. Readers may write to the author at: Progressive Media Project, 409 East Main Street, Madison, Wis. 53703; e-mail: pmproj@progressive.org; Web site: www.progressive.org. For information on PMP’s funding, please visit http://www.progressive.org/pmpabout.html#anchorsupport.

This article was prepared for The Progressive Media Project and is available to MCT subscribers. McClatchy-Tribune did not subsidize the writing of this column; the opinions are those of the writer and do not necessarily represent the views of McClatchy-Tribune or its editors.

Puerto Rico: Public News Channel Dismantled

October 14, 2009The Forumais, Andrea Thank, author, El Mundo, Gloria Soltero, Governor, Israel, journalism professor, journalist, Luis Daniel Beltr, Luis F. Coss, Luis Fortu, pain, President, Public Broadcasting, Puerto Rico, radio journalist, Ralph J Sierra Jr, San Juan, Sierra Jr Totally, United States, Vida Es Como Unaescalona

Friday, August 21st, 2009 @ 17:13 UTC
by Firuzeh Shokooh Valle

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Português: Porto Rico: Canal Público de Notícias é Desmantelado
简体中文: 波多黎各：公共新闻频道遭裁撤
繁體中文: 波多黎各：公共新聞頻道遭裁撤
Español: Puerto Rico: Desmantelan canal público de noticias
বাংলা: পুয়ের্টো রিকো: সরকারী সংবাদ চ্যানেল বন্ধ করে দেয়া হয়েছে
Français: Porto Rico: Démantèlement d’une chaîne publique d’informations
The newsroom of Puerto Rico’s only public channel, TUTV, was practically dismantled recently, allegedly due to budget cuts. The president of the Corporation of Puerto Rico of Public Broadcasting, Israel “Ray” Cruz – who was appointed by the government elected last November – fired about 50 employees, many of them journalists. The newscast, founded 15 years ago, will still be on the air for the next two months, at which point the lay-offs will be final. A group of reporters, camerapeople, producers and editors were not fired, but the future of the program is still uncertain. The government of Puerto Rico has already initiated a financial plan that includes laying-off approximately 30,000 government employees.

The very same day the public channel employees were notified they had been laid off, anchor woman Gloria Soltero gave a biting message to her audience during the newscast. The blogosphere in Puerto Rico has been loaded with comments on Soltero’s words, but first, here are some excerpts of Soltero’s message:

A aquellos que dieron lo mejor de sí para nuestro taller informativo, para que eso acabara, los felicitamos, lo lograron. Entre ellos está nuestro presidente Israel ‘Ray’ Cruz, que siguió al pie de la letra lo dictado por nuestro gobernador Luis Fortuño, quien le deja saber al pueblo de esta forma que no le importa lo que acontezca con la cultura de nuestro país, y mucho menos con lo que pase en nuestro país con sus empleados públicos.

Acuérdense, pueblo de Puerto Rico y a usted, señor gobernador, que como diría nuestro querido y respetado Aníbal González Irizarry, “un pueblo sin prensa es un pueblo esclavo”. Sr. Fortuño: si su deseo es un pueblo esclavo, usted lo ha logrado.

To those who gave the best of themselves for our newscast, in order for it to end, we congratulate you. You accomplished it. Some of those people are our President Israel ‘ Ray’ Cruz, who followed step-by-step the orders given by our Governor Luis Fortuño, who has let the people know that he does not care what happens to our country’s culture, and much less what may happen to the government employees of our country.
Remember, people of Puerto Rico, and you, Mr. Governor, as our dear and respected Aníbal González Irizarry [a famous Puerto Rican journalist] would say, ‘a country without press is a country that is enslaved.’ Mr. Fortuño: if your wish is to have an enslaved country, you have achieved it.

The journalism professor Luis F. Coss says in his blog Calahondo [ES]:

La solidaridad no puede ni debe ser un fenómeno pasajero. La solidaridad debe ser un estilo de vida frente a la codicia y frente a las políticas y prácticas que atentan contra la dignidad del ser humano. Celebro la respuesta de Gloria y de Ojeda ante las acciones destempladas de los patronos. Ahora nos toca a todos transformar los episodios heroicos en trabajo cotidiano, en conciencia madura para explicar lo que nos pasa hoy y el mañana al que aspiramos.

Solidarity cannot and should not be a passing phenomenon. Solidarity should be a way of living, in order to face greed, and the policies and practices that endanger our dignity as human beings. I celebrate Gloria’s and Ojeda’s [a Puerto Rican radio journalist] responses to the harsh actions of employers. Now, we must together transform the heroic episodes in daily work, in a mature conscience to be able to explain what is happening to us today and the future we hope for.
In her blog Hoy me desperté de arena [ES], I. Caballer writes:

El lamento, la rabia y la indignación por el despido de empleados públicos son experimentados en estos momentos en carne propia por otro grupo de trabajadores puertorriqueños en el Canal del Gobierno de Puerto Rico. En esta ocasión, la única diferencia es que pudieron hacer uso de un medio masivo de comunicación para expresar su sentir y pedirle al pueblo que tome acción y no olvide.

The pain, the fury and the indignation caused by the lay-off of government employees is experienced once again by another group of Puerto Rican workers at the the channel of the government of Puerto Rico. This time, the only difference is that they could use a massive communication outlet to express their feelings and ask the country to take action and not forget what has happened to them.
Blogger Luis Daniel Beltrán comments [ES]:

Una reacción que denota la indignación por el cierre de un medio informativo que – aunque en alguna ocasión estuvo maniatado por los caprichos del partido político de turno en el poder – servía al país, sobre todo en los tiempos de incertidumbre que se viven desde comienzos del año en curso.

[Soltero’s] response denotes the indignation caused by the closing of an information space that, even though it has occasionally been at the service of the whims of the political party in power, it has served the country, especially during these times of uncertainty since the beginning of this year.
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The thumbnail image used in this post, “television”, is by Walt Jabsco, used under a Creative Commons license. Visit Walt Jabsco’s flickr photostream.
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Ralph J Sierra Jr
Totally irresponsible!! Kudos to Soltero!!

# 2009-08-21 At 17:57 Pm
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Andrea
Thank you for the blog. This news story was ignored by the US media. Thanks again.

# 2009-08-21 At 20:40 Pm
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