Last night a fuel plant owned by Gulf exploded in Catano, Puerto Rico.
23 October 2009
Explosion In Puerto Rico! Allows Us To Post This Picture! With Exclamation Marks!
By Cindy Casares at 9:14 AM.
20 October 2009
Calle 13 Backlash Results In Concert Cancellations
By Alex Alvarez at 3:49 PM.
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Calle 13’s resident Residente, René Perez, has cost the band a few gigs due to his sartorial choices for hosting Los Premios MTV 2009.
15 October 2009
Island-Wide Union-Led Protests In Puerto Rico Shuts Down Plaza Las Americas
By Alex Alvarez at 11:19 AM.
About 100,000 people are expected to participate in a march in San Juan and protest at the giant Plaza las Americas shopping mall. The shopping center, the largest in all the Caribbean, is closing for the day in anticipation of the protests.
9 October 2009
Gloria Estefan Performs Free Concert In Puerto Rico For The Unemployed
By Alex Alvarez at 1:45 PM.
Gloria Estefan, who is probably rich enough to buy the moon, is giving something back to the people of Puerto Rico.
2 October 2009
Bananas: Benicio Del Toro To Save Monkeys
By Alex Alvarez at 5:36 PM.
Actor Benicio del Toro not only has an affinity for wolves, he is also a friend to monkeys.
3 July 2009
This Day In Latino History
By Cindy Casares at 9:00 AM.
Today in latino history, the Puerto Rican constitution, the defeat of the Spanish fleet in Cuba & Spanish same-sex marriage!
19 June 2009
15 June 2009
Curfew Law In San Juan, Puerto Rico In Order To Stop Juvenile Delinquency
By Luis Tavarez at 11:29 AM.
9 June 2009
Puerto Rican Day Parade Nom Nom: Alcapurrias
By Alex Alvarez at 5:30 PM.
New Yorker’s famous Puerto Rican Day Parade is coming up this Sunday, June 14th and we intend to celebrate by stuffing ourselves full of delicious fried food and making absolutely no attempt to explain that difference between Cuba and Puerto Rico and why neither of us is Dominican.
20 April 2009
WOOO: Party Buses Remind Us Why We Don’t Party
By Alex Alvarez at 1:59 PM.
Tired of being ignored at clubs, bars and house parties? Want to liven up your relatively non-existent social life? Why not take a cue from today’s Puerto Rican youth and party on a bus! While the trend itself is nothing new, there is an expectedly ridiculous subculture emerging around the decision to party on a [...]
3 April 2009
Johnny Depp Shooting The Rum Diary In PR. Amaury Nolasco Can’t Be Far Behind.
By Cindy Casares at 3:15 PM.
Johnny Depp and crew began shooting the movie adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s The Rum Diary in San Juan yesterday. Depp is reprising his role as the legendary journalist and Amaury Nolasco is playing Segurra, the son of the biggest cement-plant owner in Puerto Rico.
Amaury was spotted making out with a dude in a Miami club some [...]
18 March 2009
More Doggone News: Selena Gomez Saves Dogs In Puerto Rico
By Alex Alvarez at 10:11 AM.
God, sorry, but we can’t help but fawn over Selena Gomez: She doesn’t purse her lips in photos, we’re not constantly seeing her in photo shoot after photo shoot, and she saves stray dogs in Puerto Rico with Island Dog. All at the age of like, what? Seven?
17 March 2009
Former Puerto Rican Governor Anibel Acevedo Asks For Money Midway Through His Fraud Trial
By Cindy Casares at 9:45 AM.
The first Puerto Rican governor to ever stand federal trial, Anibal Acevedo Vila, asked for donations to his defense fund during a trial that includes charges of money laundering, conspiracy, and giving false testimony to the FBI. Ya gotta hand it to him. Well, no actually, you don’t. And you probably shouldn’t.
4 March 2009
Disney’s David Henrie Learning The Joys Of Legal Drinking In Puerto Rico
By Cindy Casares at 5:21 PM.
Wizards of Waverly Place co-star David Henrie was photographed getting sloppy all over some Puerto Rican young lady this weekend.
5 February 2009
Puerto Rico Murderer Eliezer Marquez Navedo’s Mother Inés Navedo Velázquez Killed Two Children In 1992
By Cindy Casares at 5:58 PM.
Eliezer Marquez Navedo of Puerto Rico who confessed today to murdering pregnant, 35 year-old, American tourist Sara Kuszak yesterday, is not the first in his family to kill in cold blood. His mother Inés Navedo Velázquez, (pictured at left with her hair in a bun), served jail time for murdering two children.
Eliezer Marquez Navedo Killed Pregnant American Tourist Sara Kuszak In Puerto Rico
By Cindy Casares at 1:48 PM.
Sara Kuszak, 35, of Savannah, Georgia and formerly of San Francisco, California was traveling through Puerto Rico when she was abducted and killed yesterday during a morning jog. Her killer, Eliezer Marquez Navedo, 36, confessed to the crime today.
22 January 2009
Whoopsie: Puerto Rican Senator Jorge De Castro Font Pleads Guilty To Being A Really Corrupt Politician
By Cindy Casares at 5:08 PM.
Former member of the Puerto Rican Senate Jorge De Castro Font (former because he was arrested in October by the FBI) pleaded guilty yesterday to 21 charges of fraud and conspiracy. De Castro Font admitted that from Jan. 2, 2005, through August 2008, he “directly and indirectly solicited [...] approximately $525,000 in cash payments and other benefits, such as [...]
