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Sentence Examples A U.S. commonwealth since 1952, Puerto Rico has maintained a strong sense of nationalism. The well-heeled and well-connected often flew to Puerto Rico or Sweden and checked into clinics. I have this facility with accents because I grew up with Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Colombians, Ecuadoreans, Salvadorans and Argentines. That old man kept on about how the Puerto Ricans were coming around ruining his neighborhood, he had no idea that his real enemy was me. Oh, and I caught a bunch of cutlassfish in the lagoon of Puerto Maya on my fly rod. Best known as Nuyorican, New Yorkers of Puerto Rican ancestry also define themselves as AmeRican, Borinquen, Boricua, or simply Rican. He's mamboing with Chita Rivera, the first Hispanic to receive the Kennedy Center Honors and a beloved celebrity in his native Puerto Rico. In roseate terns, kleptoparasitism is widespread, having been reported in England, Australia, Puerto Rico, and the United States. Puerto Rico, Mexico and Venezuela now had ballplayers playing for major-league teams. Many Puerto Rican dishes are seasoned with a savory mixture of spices known as sofrito. Our call was in the nearby port facility of Puerto Cones, which served as a launching point for excursions to the nearby Mayan ruins. The U. S. colonial government is trying to reinstitute the death penalty in Puerto Rico. I always fantasized about going on an exotic sea cruise to Puerto Rico or San Tropez or the Greek Islands. Many Puerto Ricans have a unique tendency among Latin Americans to drop the's' sound in casual conversation. Bilingualism is especially common among young, urbanized, professional Puerto Ricans. The merengue, another popular native Puerto Rican dance, is a fast step in which the dancers' hips are in close contact. Within the U.S., the leatherback is known to nest in Southeastern Florida, Culebra, Puerto Rico, and St. Croix. Paying attention to language helps identify a Puerto Rican in New York as a new arrival from the island rather than a Nuyorican. He was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, but grew up in New York City, where he played sandlot baseball. Puerto Rican farmers have established about 2,000 acres of mango orchards in response to increased demand for these fruits. Show More Sentences My mother doesn't play any instruments, but she always is listening to Puerto Rican music. The majority of attendees were Puerto Rican and called for a Puerto Rican organization. Around 1900, many Puerto Ricans immigrated to Hawaii to work on the plantations. Many Puerto Ricans use solar power for hot water heating, for example, but not for electricity. The director is an Irishman married to a Puerto Rican, with an obvious interest in his wife's culture. The Puerto Rican men's basketball team inflicted one of the greatest upsets in Olympic history today. This official road sign is placed just inside the border with Brazil at Puerto Iguazu, in the far north of the country. An inveterate grassroots activist and organiser, she led the campaign to expose sterilisation abuse in Puerto Rico, where it was rampant. Our study was a family-based study and included probands with asthma from two populations, Puerto Ricans and Mexicans. In Puerto Rico the most brutal competition is for loading the ships, and to some extent for the trader. Part New Yorker, part Puerto Rican, Nuyoricans have become an integral part of New York City culture. In addition to his post-secondary coaching experience, Pardo served as an assistant with a semi-professional team in Puerto Rico six years ago. The genipap is native to wet or moist areas of Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and from Guadeloupe to Trinidad. She is beautiful and her acting is fine, but her singing voice is dubbed and she looks artificially Puerto Rican. Flying into Puerto Plata on the north coast, you immediately see that the country has more to offer than beaches. Love vine is also found in Texas, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Puerto Rico is a commonwealth of the United States, meaning that it is subject to most federal regulations and subsidies. Ruiz, originally of Puerto Rico, becomes the first Hispanic heavyweight champion with his unanimous decision over Holyfield. For these philosophical adherents, the Taino continue to exist only as subsumed elements within Puerto Rico's tri-racial dynamic. He embraced and identified what it was to be a Nuyorican, a Puerto Rican growing up in New York. Show More Sentences In New York in the '70s, with the Cuban embargo, you'd get the Puerto Rican musicians and exiled Cuban musicians mixing with Colombians. More than 65,000 Puerto Ricans served in the U.S. armed forces during the war, most of them as soldiers garrisoning U.S. bases in the Caribbean. But the people of Puerto Rico are also human beings with a right to live and prosper that brute force cannot deny. Members of the military who are serving outside the USA or Puerto Rico, but who aren't in a combat zone, have until June 15 to file their taxes. The victims included a Puerto Rican-born American, an Ethiopian, a Croatian, and three Timorese. The 300-year-old inn exudes bohemian bonhomie and is one of the best loved in Puerto Rico. Each year, ciguatera poisoning accounts for several thousand illnesses in Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Hawaii, and Florida. The idea of Spanishness has come to evoke Mexico, Puerto Rico, Jennifer Lopez, and support for the common man. There are about 50 islands and cays in the US Virgin Islands, which lie about 40 miles east of Puerto Rico. In Puerto Rico, boas have taken to the trees where they lurk near the mouths of caves. Officially, Puerto Rico became a U.S. commonwealth in 1952, when the island was granted limited self-government. The Puerto Rican jumped, and the tranquilizer dart thudded against the wall, narrowly missing him. Feminism is seen as a product of U.S. culture, imperialistically imposed upon Puerto Ricans. My ward was made up of Polish, Ukrainians, Russians, Greeks, Slovaks, Appalachians, Puerto Ricans, blacks. Luckily for American visitors, Puerto Rico is very much a U.S. commonwealth, with English widely spoken and the dollar the coin of the realm. The island of Puerto Rico is the most easterly of the Greater Antilles group of the West Indies island chain. Claims that Puerto Rican protesters planned to canoe out to hinder firings proved unfounded. They suffered a shock defeat to Puerto Rico in the opening game before being humbled by eventual winners Argentina in the semi-finals. The fruit is now being grown on farms in Puerto Rico, and mangosteens are slowly arriving on the mainland. Puerto Ricans and Chicanos are linguistically linked, but if you invite them over for frijoles and serve refried beans, one will be disappointed. Show More Sentences Puerto Rico went 1 up in the third bout when Olympian Joseph Serrano, won via walkover. The Americans, humbled by Puerto Rico on Sunday, showed more fight against the hosts in front of a hostile crowd. He scanned the images and radio data from telescopes at solar observatories in Australia, Puerto Rico, Massachusetts, Italy, and New Mexico. A Puerto Rican folk dancer who performs bomba brought her own conga drummers to keep the beat. Charles is understanding and compassionate with Mrs. Lee, the aging, ageless coquette, who dances through an army of Puerto Rican gigolos. Compared to New York, in Puerto Rico there are more pay-to-enter shooting galleries, called shootings. The three appeared in court on January 1 when a judge ordered their committal to Puerto De Santa Maria II prison, near Cadiz. Like all other government entities in the U.S., Puerto Rico has many people to shortchange before it will stiff its bondholders. Puerto Ricans tolerate fast-food, but prefer native food and home cooking. These might include Chicanos, Cajuns, Amish and Puerto Ricans. Puerto Jimenez, the peninsula's capital, was until very recently an illegal gold town, set up by prospectors needing supplies to explore the untouched jungle interiors. He has overseen research in Hawaii, Iowa, Puerto Rico, and Chile, and investigated such diverse crops as soybeans, corn, sorghum, sunflowers, ginger, and papaya. Last New Year's Eve, the ship suffered a power cut for almost two hours in stormy seas in the Bermuda Triangle, en route to New York from Puerto Rico. Puerto Asis is a boom town with no visible means of support. The oil slick, currently the size of Puerto Rico, is beginning to paint local coastlines. Puerto Ricans in New York City have built casitas, copies of the traditional rural wooden houses painted in vibrant colors and decorated with Puerto Rican objects. Among Puerto Ricans in New York City, home-built casitas in abandoned urban lots sprang up to recreate the garden life of a community amid decaying apartment projects. But everywhere in New York are seen Puerto Rican flags, and small casitas similar to those seen on the island dot a variety of local lots and community gardens. The Puerto Rican supermodel is spun in circles for nowness's latest editorial film, which celebrates power. That summer the Puerto Rican girls had straightened their hair like Mariah Carey but the white girls were still frizzing their hair out with big perms. Show More Sentences He's already trying to spend as little time as possible in the Puerto Asis area, even though he has invested more than five years of effort in organizing campesinos there. Only a few weeks ago I had been in Puerto Rico and eaten a most amazing piece of deep fried, nearly greaseless coney so, I was eager to make some rabbit of my own. Further research revealed that the model is Puerto Rican and Kuwaiti. Schomburg was born on 24 January 1874 to an unwed freeborn mulatta, Maria Josepha, in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, and raised in Puerto Rico by his mother's family. If Puerto Ricans vote to become a state, there will be a huge push by the Democrats to admit this largely Democratic commonwealth to the U.S. as the 51st state. It is a simple Puerto Rican cow's milk cheese called queso de hoja and it is wrapped in a plantain leaf. For example, since 2011 it has been adding 30 per cent more capacity per year on flights to Puerto Rico. Besides Guam and the Northern Marianas, they are Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and American Samoa. Opening Pan Am action Saturday with a 74-72 thrilling win over Argentina, the Americans ended up on the short end of an 86-85 barn burner versus Puerto Rico Sunday evening. It was then shipped to Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, and sold for 50 cents on the dollar. Spain blows up the USS Maine, we end up taking over Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines. By the 1950s, however, service organizations faced new challenges from increasing numbers of Mexican immigrants, Texas Mexicans, or Tejanos, and a new group, Puerto Ricans. The rider returned to Puerto Rico briefly in early September following an accident on July 23 at Del Mar in which fellow rider Alex Solis was injured. The refugees come from Panama, Paraguay, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Mexico, Colombia, Guatemala, and Puerto Rico. While both teams in the gold medal game were guaranteed an Olympic berth, Puerto Rico and Canada were duking it out for the final berth in yesterday's consolation game. As a thirty-six-year-old olive-skinned Puerto Rican woman, Maddy had been doubly lonely since the first week of trial. These athletes represent 16 foreign countries and Puerto Rico. This coconut cream-based drink is Puerto Rico's delicious variation of eggnog. Many Puerto Rican mainlanders hold high-paying white collar jobs. Puerto Rico, Japan and Mexico all are rich in baseball history and tradition, with a ready-made fan base eager to snap up tickets and pony up for licensed merchandise. Show More Sentences The eye of the storm is expected to hit Puerto Rico later today. It was a beautiful evening on the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico in February 2003 and the aromatic smell of a barbecue was still lingering in the warm night air. After the long ferry journey, Puerto Natales appears as a cheerful huddle of brightly painted buildings clinging bravely to the shore of the Gulf of Almirante Montt. He said he uses the quiet time at night to ponder a move to Puerto Rico or maybe Hawaii. Just look at the Puerto Rican basketball team, a no-name crew with a 40-year-old centre that left a collection of millionaire celebrities with egg on their face. Representatives to the lower house were elected by Puerto Ricans. When Columbus landed on what is now Puerto Rico, he saw Taino natives slow-roasting meat on a grid over a pit filled with smoldering, burned down wood. The neighborhood continued to serve as a port of entry for many incoming Mexican immigrants, braceros, Mexican American migrants, and Puerto Rican labor migrants. The music of Puerto Rico has evolved as a heterogeneous and dynamic product of diverse cultural resources. Puerto Rican cuisine has transcended the boundaries of the island, and can be found in several countries outside the archipelago. The traditional Puerto Rican cuisine was well established by the end of the 19th century. Early Dutch, French, Italian, and Chinese immigrants influenced not only the culture but Puerto Rican cooking as well. Insular Territories were commemorated in 1937, the third stamp honored Puerto Rico featuring 'La Fortaleza', the Spanish Governor's Palace. Baseball was one of the first sports to gain widespread popularity in Puerto Rico. The Puerto Rico Baseball League serves as the only active professional league, operating as a winter league. In 2008, the archipelago's first unified league, the Puerto Rico Soccer League, was established. Six years after the first visit, AND1 returned as part of their renamed Live Tour, losing to the Puerto Rico Streetballers. Department of Transportation, and patrolled by the Puerto Rico Police Department. Telecommunications in Puerto Rico includes radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet. Florida has a large and diverse Hispanic population, with Cubans and Puerto Ricans being the largest groups in the state. Show More Sentences Puerto Ricans are more widespread throughout the state, though the heaviest concentrations are in the Orlando area of Central Florida. North of the city of Tumbes lies Puerto Pizarro, the gateway to the National Mangroves Sanctuary. Other sources suggest that Verrazzano was executed for piracy by the Spanish, at Puerto del Pico, Spain. In Argentina, Venezuela, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic the sweet potato is called batata. The scale of emigration has been widespread and similar to other Caribbean entities such as Puerto Rico, Guyana, and The Bahamas. Wired Puerto Ricans were pacing about pugilistically on the corner, and black guys with big hats were leaning in doorways. The early Spanish colonizers called Puerto Rico and the islands to the west Sotavento, meaning leeward. A tough win over Cuba set Belize in position to advance, but they fell to Puerto Rico in their final match and failed to qualify. In addition, New York has the largest Puerto Rican, Dominican, and Jamaican American populations in the continental United States. Thus, California case law interpreting those codes was treated as persuasive authority in Puerto Rico. The commonwealth of Puerto Rico allows property to be owned as community property also as do several Native American jurisdictions. The Board has jurisdiction to hold elections and prosecute violations of the Act in Puerto Rico and American Samoa. Fishing boats on the Caribbean side bring shrimp as well as lobsters into processing plants at Puerto Cabezas, Bluefields, and Laguna de Perlas. Most are located in Alabama, California, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Tennessee, and in Puerto Rico. The largest Hispanic groups are those having origins in Puerto Rico, Colombia, Bolivia, the Dominican Republic, and Guatemala. This simply says that the district court shall not undertake to construe a theretofore unconstrued Puerto Rican statute. The service will represent the only non-stop connection between Puerto Rico and Antigua and Barbuda. The roots of American annexationism in Puerto Rico extend back to the early 19th century fostered in part by commercial relations. His invasion plans took into consideration the existence of a small group of Puerto Ricans with strong annexationist tendencies. Norwegian Jewel will also call at Cartagena, Puntarenas, Corinto, Puerto Quetzal, Acapulco, Cabo San Lucas and finally Los Angeles. Show More Sentences The Ecast-powered Digital Jukeboxes are located throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. Martinez-Agosto was born in Juncos, Puerto Rico, a son of Manuel and Rose Martinez. The video, which also features Puerto Rican reggaeton star Farruko, has garnered more than 49,000 views in the first two days of its release. Section 936, the Possessions Tax Credit, provides tax breaks to American corporations who relocate to Puerto Rico and Guam. The closest doctor is another hour and a half by car in Puerto Lempira, Gracias a Dios' capital city. The mayor of the Honduran city of Puerto Lempira, population 11,000, estimates that 1,400 injured divers live in the area. Gentlemen, Siphon and Sandpit all did well Stateside under Mandella'scare, and now he is carrying on with the likes of Puerto Madero and Malek. Playa Dorada surrounds the Playa Dorada Resort Complex in Puerto Plata and is lined with coconut palms, royal Poinciana trees and sea grapes. Officials in Mexico declared a state of emergency in regions that contain the port of Manzanillo and the resort of Puerto Vallarta. Carlos Ramos Morales helps a terminally ill participant at Belen Community near Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, Aug. The South American Sailfin Armored Catfish, Liposarcus multiradiatus, a new exotic established in Puerto Rican fresh waters. This eclectic group is dedicated to preserving the Puerto Rican traditions of bomba and plena, two drum-focused forms of traditional dance music. Near Puerto Limon, Costa Rica, Madman, co-pilot and plane were caught in a storm, cast into the Caribbean, drowned. He died of dysentery in January 1596 after unsuccessfully attacking San Juan, Puerto Rico. Dissatisfied with their new political status, Puerto Ricans turned to political referendums to let make their opinions known. This terrain is found in Cuba, Jamaica, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, southern China, and Vietnam. The Virgin Islands as part of the Puerto Rican bank are sometimes included with the Greater Antilles. The climate of the area is tropical to subtropical in Cuba, the Bahamas and Puerto Rico. In the Caribbean, it is official in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico. Cofresi's base was in Mona Island, Puerto Rico, from where he disrupted the commerce throughout the region. Show More Sentences In 1917, the US Congress gave US citizenship to Puerto Ricans when they were drafted to participate in World War I, as part of the Jones Act. In 1766, France surrendered its claim on the Falklands to Spain, which renamed the French colony Puerto Soledad the following year. West Falkland was left abandoned, and Puerto Soledad became mostly a prison camp. Badly damaged and with eight crew dead, Alferez Sobral managed to return to Puerto Deseado two days later. Almirante Irizar was an icebreaker, Bahia Paraiso was an Antarctic supply transport and Puerto Deseado was a survey ship. On November 19, 1493 he landed on the island of Puerto Rico, naming it San Juan Bautista in honor of Saint John the Baptist. Ponce de Leon was actively involved in the Higuey massacre of 1503 in Puerto Rico. During the 1520s, the island took the name of Puerto Rico while the port became San Juan. Also, early in the colonization of Puerto Rico, attempts were made to wrest control of Puerto Rico from Spain. Nonetheless, Puerto Rico remained a Spanish possession until the 19th century. The last half of the 19th century was marked by the Puerto Rican struggle for sovereignty. However, in 2016, the Supreme Court held that Puerto Rico is not a separate sovereign for purposes of the Double Jeopardy Clause. An annual eisteddfod is also held in Trevelin, in the Andes and Puerto Madryn. Torres left in 1996, giving way to Puerto Rican lawyer Francisco Valcarcel as president. By the end of 1826, the only American colonies Spain held were Cuba and Puerto Rico. The larger islands in the northern part of the sea Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica and Puerto Rico lie on an older island arc. The Mona ground iguana which inhabits the island of Mona, Puerto Rico, is endangered. The Puerto Rico Trench is located on the boundary between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. Volcanic activity is frequent along the island arc southeast from Puerto Rico to the coast of South America. It is the deepest trench of the Southern Atlantic Ocean, and the second deepest of the Atlantic Ocean after the Puerto Rico Trench. Show More Sentences The Puerto Rico trench is at a complex transition from the subduction boundary to the south and the transform boundary to the west. On 14 August, he landed on the continental mainland at Puerto Castilla, near Trujillo, Honduras. On August 14, 1502, he landed on the American mainland at Puerto Castilla, near Trujillo, Honduras. The Betancourt political families who influenced Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Puerto Rico, Bolivia and Panama have some French ancestry. On his second trip, begun in 1493, he found more Caribbean islands including Puerto Rico. A replica of the Victoria, the only ship of Magellan's to survive the entire voyage, can be visited in Puerto San Julian. Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico are collectively known as the Greater Antilles. River steamers carry cargo as far as Puerto Ayacucho and the Atures Rapids. Puerto Toro lies a few kilometers south of Puerto Williams and is arguably the southernmost village in the world. Puerto Toro, a few miles south of Puerto Williams, is the closest town to the cape. He became the first Governor of Puerto Rico by appointment of the Spanish crown. He was interred in Puerto Rico, and his tomb is located inside of the Cathedral of San Juan Bautista in San Juan. In particular they anchored on the coast of a large island the natives called Borinquen but would eventually become known as Puerto Rico. Here he erected a storehouse and a fortified house, creating the first settlement in Puerto Rico, Caparra. After leaving Puerto Rico, they sailed northwest along the great chain of Bahama Islands, known then as the Lucayos. From these islands they sailed southwest in an apparent attempt to circle around Cuba and return home to Puerto Rico. He left Puerto Rico in April 1514 and was warmly received by Ferdinand when he arrived at court in Valladolid. On a map, they start with the Virgin Islands east of Puerto Rico and reach southeast to Dominica. In late September 2017, the category 5 Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico causing devastating damage. The ancient history of the archipelago which is now Puerto Rico is not well known. Show More Sentences With the advent of the lively Bourbon Dynasty in Spain in the 1700s, the island of Puerto Rico began a gradual shift to more imperial attention. Even though the conspiracy was unsuccessful, Xiorro achieved legendary status and is part of Puerto Rico's folklore. Many joined the Puerto Rican Revolutionary Committee, founded on December 8, 1895, and continued their quest for Puerto Rican independence. They raised what they called the Puerto Rican flag, which was adopted as the national flag. He suggested that the United States annex the Dominican Republic and purchase Puerto Rico and Cuba. Office of Naval Intelligence had prepared a plan that included military operations in Puerto Rican waters. The Foraker Act of 1900 gave Puerto Rico a certain amount of civilian popular government, including a popularly elected House of Representatives. He organized a protest at the University of Puerto Rico in 1935, in which four were killed by police. In the aftermath, on April 2, 1943, Tydings introduced a bill in Congress calling for independence for Puerto Rico. Since 2007, the Puerto Rico State Department has developed a protocol to issue certificates of Puerto Rican citizenship to Puerto Ricans. A bill was introduced before the Puerto Rican Senate which would restrain the rights of the independence and nationalist movements in the island. He asserted that the law as such was a violation of the civil rights of the people of Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico's electorate expressed its support for this measure in 1951 with a second referendum to ratify the constitution. The sections of this statute left in force were entitled the Puerto Rican Federal Relations Act. Puerto Rico has become a major tourist destination, as well as a global center for pharmaceutical manufacturing. The people of Puerto Rico made history by requesting, for the first time ever, the conclusion of the island's current territorial status. In May, 2017, the Natural Resources Defense Council reported that Puerto Rico's water system was the worst as measured by the Clean Water Act. Puerto Ricans have participated in many of the military conflicts in which the United States has been involved. Puerto Rico experiences the Atlantic hurricane season, similar to the remainder of the Caribbean Sea and North Atlantic oceans. A cyclone of tropical storm strength passes near Puerto Rico, on average, every five years. Show More Sentences It is also home to 50 bird species, including the critically endangered Puerto Rican amazon. From 2000 to 2010, the population decreased, the first such decrease in census history for Puerto Rico. Between 1960 and 1990 the census questionnaire in Puerto Rico did not ask about race or ethnicity. This trend continued even as Puerto Rico's economy improved and its birth rate declined. The official languages of the executive branch of government of Puerto Rico are Spanish and English, with Spanish being the primary language. In Puerto Rico, public school instruction is conducted almost entirely in Spanish. The languages of the deaf community are American Sign Language and its local variant, Puerto Rican Sign Language. As a product of Puerto Rican history, the island possesses a unique Spanish dialect. The largest influence on the Spanish spoken in Puerto Rico is that of the Canary Islands. The Padmasambhava Buddhist Center, whose followers practice Tibetan Buddhism, has a branch in Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico has 8 senatorial districts, 40 representative districts and 78 municipalities. Puerto Rican elections are governed by the Federal Election Commission and the State Elections Commission of Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico hosts consulates from 41 countries, mainly from the Americas and Europe, with most located in San Juan. The PIP, in contrast, seeks a complete separation from the United States by seeking to make Puerto Rico a sovereign nation. Laws enacted at the federal level in the United States apply to Puerto Rico as well, regardless of its political status. Only fundamental rights under the American federal constitution and adjudications are applied to Puerto Ricans. S Supreme Court decisions have held which rights apply in Puerto Rico and which ones do not. Residents of Puerto Rico pay into Social Security, and are thus eligible for Social Security benefits upon retirement. Sonia Sotomayor, a New Yorker of Puerto Rican descent, serves as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. It is also charged to liaise with general consuls and honorary consuls based in Puerto Rico. Show More Sentences Puerto Rico is currently under the responsibility of United States Northern Command. When compared to Latin America, Puerto Rico has the highest GDP per capita in the region. Harsher budget cuts are expected as Puerto Rico must now repay larger chunks of debts in the following years. The cost of living in Puerto Rico is high and has increased over the past decade. Congress to exclude Puerto Rico from the Jones Act restrictions without success. Ponce has the highest concentration of medical infrastructure per inhabitant of any municipality in Puerto Rico. The Reform is administered by the Puerto Rico Health Insurance Administration. Early in the history of Puerto Rican music, the influences of Spanish and African traditions were most noticeable. La Fortaleza continues to serve also as the executive mansion for the Governor of Puerto Rico. Ponce Creole is an architectural style created in Ponce, Puerto Rico, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Puerto Rican art reflects many influences, much from its ethnically diverse background. True to their historic origins Puerto Rican caretas always bear at least several horns and fangs. Written works by the native islanders of Puerto Rico were prohibited and repressed by the Spanish colonial government. Some of Puerto Rico's earliest writers were influenced by the teachings of Rafael Cordero. Pedreira, described in his work Insularismo the cultural survival of the Puerto Rican identity after the American invasion. With the Puerto Rican diaspora of the 1940s, Puerto Rican literature was greatly influenced by a phenomenon known as the Nuyorican Movement. The influence of Puerto Rican literature has transcended the boundaries of the island to the United States and the rest of the world. The media in Puerto Rico includes local radio stations, television stations and newspapers, the majority of which are conducted in Spanish. Authorities evacuated 4,000 people and they closed access to the area, near the cities of Puerto Varas and Puerto Montt. Puerto Rico has the highest known incidence of premature thelarche ever reported. Show More Sentences Ceiba del Mar Spa Resort in Puerto Morelos enhanced its facilities by offering fewer but far more spacious guestrooms. As of the 2002-2003 school year, nearly 2,700 charter schools operated in 36 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. The beaches of Tacoron and Puerto Naos have been closed on El Hierro, which is located in the Canary Islands. This year, the XXI International Gourmet Festival will take place from the 16th to the 22nd of November in Puerto Vallarta and Riviera Nayarit. With competition for deposits in Puerto Rico continuing to be intense, margin relief over the near term is not likely. Canada, Puerto Rico, and various trust territories and independent island nations in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans and Caribbean Sea. Bragan expects Yauco Plaza to become one of the largest strip malls in Puerto Rico, with over 140 stores and office space. This results in the formation of the deep Puerto Rico Trench and a zone of intermediate focus earthquakes within the subducted slab. The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Tourism Company oversees all gaming activities and regulates the casino for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands. For a coconut flavor with a hint of cinnamon, try the BACARDI Coquito, a traditional Puerto Rican holiday drink. Calle Ocho, also in New York City, is planning a Puerto Rican Coquito complete with coconut milk, egg yolks, cinnamon and rum. The affected vehicles are registered in Florida, Puerto Rico, Hawaii and the United States Virgin Islands. Puerto Rico has set a record for the number of cruise ship passengers visiting the island on a single day. Cuatro Sombras Puerto Rican-grown coffee is now available for sale in supermarkets. The event began with the national anthem and La Borinquena, by Harold Hernandez on his cuatro, a traditional Puerto Rican guitar. The Vincentians were 4-0 up by half time of the Group Four Caribbean Zone clash at the Estadio Juan Ramon Loubriel in Puerto Rico. The main island of Puerto Rico is, by land area the smallest of the Greater Antilles. We took a three-hour yacht trip from Puerto Colon and were accompanied part way by an entire family of four pilot whales. Puerto Rico is a political anachronism, a throwback to the days of gunboat diplomacy and the handlebar mustache. Show More Sentences This being Puerto Rico, the pit boss might not have known McCain. All import fees levied on foreign-flagged vessels should be paid into the Puerto Rican Treasury, not the merchant marine. This year celebrates a milestone in Puerto Rico, marking the birth of Puerto Rican coffee 275 years ago. Building a Latino Civil Rights Movement, Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in New York, by Sonia Song-Ha Lee. With no money, crops or land, Puerto Ricans left for cities like San Juan, Ponce and Mayag'fcez. At the recent 2013 FIBA Americas Championships, Puerto Rico got the silver after losing to Mexico in a close contest. An American surfer was missing in the rough seas and high winds off Puerto Rico. The passage of the First Organic Act of Puerto Rico, better known as the Foraker Act, sought to remedy this. The Company currently owns and operates 153 funeral homes and 104 cemeteries in 19 states, Australia, Mexico and Puerto Rico. With the addition of Illinois in April, 43 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico have received waivers. JetBlue Airways Corporation, a US-based airline company, has announced an inaugural service to US Virgin Islands from San Juan, in Puerto Rico. Caribe Spectrum Holdings Inc, formed in 2010 and located in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Jan. Puerto Rico has nine ports in different cities across the main island. Puerto Rican baseball players include Hall of Famers Roberto Clemente, Orlando Cepeda and Roberto Alomar, enshrined in 1973, 1999, and 2011 respectively. Congress established Puerto Rico's status as an unincorporated territory. However, these would not be the last attempts at control of Puerto Rico. Currently, the Cruise Capital of the World is the Port of Miami, Florida, closely followed behind by Port Everglades, Florida and the Port of San Juan, Puerto Rico. In 1998, friends and family persuaded a balking Garcia to build the Alerce Mountain Lodge, an eco-inn nestled in a pristine grove two hours east of Puerto Varas. In 1669, the district around Puerto Deseado, explored by John Davis about the same period, was claimed by Sir John Narborough for King Charles II of England. In the latter part of the 19th century, the cuisine of Puerto Rico was greatly influenced by the United States in the ingredients used in its preparation. Find more words! 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