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The findings from this field work were published in a 19-volume series titled The Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands Much of the research was conducted and published in the early half of the 20th century when relatively little was known about the region The scientists reported three cycles of erosion in the area including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands which formed the ‘upper peneplane of Porto Rico’ was ended by uplift; the second cycle destroyed the earlier peneplane and ‘produced an old erosional surface approximately 700 feet below the first’; while the third cycle resulted in the formation of a lower peneplane.” These fundamental geological structures are estimated to have been created during the conclusion of the Tertiary period made several trips to the region in the 1920s In The Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands he reported “the entire Porto Rico-Saint Croix-Virgin Islands area developed as a unit until the late Tertiary dissection of the coastal plain.” During this same era other researchers would study the region’s mammalogy (mammals) Gleason studied wetlands in Puerto Rico as part of the Academy’s expedition Gleason was the curator of the New York Botanical Garden and was a pupil of Academy Fellow Nathanial Lord Britton as a doctoral student in taxonomy at Columbia University Gleason’s Puerto Rican research also had an economic component Gleason studied a swamp along the north shore of Arecibo With sugarcane as a major export for the island Gleason suggested draining the swamp so that the entire area could be used to cultivate this cash crop However, with the swamp being at sea level Gleason stated it cannot be drained using “ordinary means,” as reported by the Yonkers Herald he suggested they’d need to follow the example of the Hollanders by “[building] dikes to keep out the sea and then [draining] the swamp by means of pumps,” which could be powered by windmills because of near constant “trade winds.” Gleason also observed differences in the island’s topography between the north and south While the north is swampier and saw greater rainfall arid and is subject to “long periods of drought.”   Puerto Rico’s government botanist and plant pathologist this research was published in The Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands The Smithsonian Institute’s Alexander Wetmore studied birds in the region in the late 1920s He observed that the stomachs of the Antillean grebe would often “contain masses of their own feathers which are regularly ground up and passed on into the intestines,” he wrote in The Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands Wetmore also studied the honey-creeper. He didn’t have to travel far as the bird would often fly into the parlor of his hotel “to search the blossoms of cut flowers in vases,” according to reporting from the Roanoke World-News During these excursions into the hotel room the bird became puzzled upon seeing its own reflection in the mirror Wetmore wrote “As it fluttered before the glass the bird on the opposite side always rose to meet it and after several attempts to evade the reflection and scold its image sharply with quickly flitting wings.” it was observed that female honey-creepers didn’t always appreciate the company of their male counterparts “he brings materials only when the female is absent Wetmore uncovered an interesting trait of the brown pelican he discovered that “when the alcatraz grows old and feeble rather than suffer death by starvation it commits suicide by hanging itself by the head from the fork of a mangrove or the crevice between two stones.” Researchers under the auspices of the Academy continued to conduct impactful archeological research in the region eventually expanding to also cover other islands such as Cuba researchers in 1940 noted “[two] periods of prehistoric occupation on the island were distinguishable in clearly stratified deposits of culture refuse found on the north and south coasts.” Done in multiple excavations across various parts of the island the artifacts that researchers collected included decorative bowls Much of the success of this effort is attributed to Academy president Nathanial Lord Britton What started as a four-year project in 1912 Britton controlled nearly every aspect of the survey until his death in 1934 Not only was he lauded for his organizational and administrative efforts but he led what “proved to be the most ambitious project ever undertaken by The New York Academy of Sciences” so successfully that it became “an almost routine affair,” according to Baatz While Britton and other researchers from New York helped to influence the scientific culture in Puerto Rico Puerto Ricans have influenced the culture in the city and other parts of the United States in various ways This is the second article in a two-part series examining the Academy’s past expeditions to Puerto Rico. 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View this article abstract  the Barça Legends will be in Puerto Rico to play Real Madrid Leyendas at the Juan Ramón Loubriel Stadium at 5pm local time (10pm CET) in the third game between the teams this season The side coached by Albert Ferrer has won the two played thus far in Doha on November 28 (on penalties) and then 2-1 in Tokyo a week later One of the attractions in this game will be David Villa in just his second appearance The full squad will be announced in the coming weeks The Barça Legends were created in 2016 and are directly managed by the club being a way to integrate veteran stars into a stable all the while helping to globalise the Barça brand and values in the different countries where the team plays And yet, they have to turn something in. The season is mere episodes from ending, and a fire has finally started to burn within the Housewives. Now, this fire is burning from 18 barely functional fireplaces, but it’s a fire nonetheless. As the cast trip continues, the women have reached that wonderful stage of hating everything about each other and always being moments from tears. It might be the first episode of new RHONY where I’d argue too much happened. It feels like every feud has been fast-forwarded so we can make it to a quote-on-quote explosive finale, and it’s a little odd. But that’s most definitely better than the static air we’ve been getting. It is kind of weird this cast trip is getting the four-episode treatment given the first two episodes could’ve been condensed into 12 minutes and the season’s episode order is already on the shorter side. But, alas. Here we are. The episode starts with Erin stoking the flames of Brynn vs. Jessel, before pivoting to Ubah vs. Erin, a quick detour to Erin sobbing, and ends with Ubah picking a fight with the existence of Puerto Rico. Go figure that the first sign of real drama would make these women cry their eyes out. They really did just click “create presentation” on Canva and say, “Whew, that was a lot. Let’s pick it up tomorrow.” Let’s dive into this incomprehensibly weird little episode and Brynn discuss Jessel’s major changes from last year and their frustration with her lack of transparency which makes sense given new RHONY’s love for the humorless Erin pivots the conversation in a pretty fun direction letting Brynn know that Jessel was disgusted by her cutting in line at a photoshoot Jessel has never been more upset about anything wants to know why Jessel always has a photographer at her children’s events Naturally, the women gather at dinner to discuss just that. Well actually, they discuss Jenna’s pubes first. Again. The preview for next week shows them discussing them further, which makes me want to become a nun. Vicki Gunvalson voice, “It’s disgusting to me.” Finally, the conversation moves to Jessel’s anger at Brynn, which Jessel immediately shuts down. Maybe Erin’s a little pot stirrer. Lowkey, the funniest moment of it all is Jenna’s confessional, something I find so shocking. It’s a new year and already, the world has flipped on its head. “I don’t know why she’s giving Jessel s—,” Jenna says. “When I was a little girl, all I wanted was to do my hair and makeup and look pretty. And like, it’s every girl’s dream. And she’s living out her dream.” The glam fight is admittedly a fun time. Jessel is a good Housewife when she’s engaged in the drama, so kudos to Erin for instigating all of this. And kudos to Jessel for turning it on Erin for creating a fire out of the smallest flame. Erin shooing Jessel away is such a diva moment, too. These women are awful at fighting and sometimes it circles around to being so bad it’s good. Unfortunately, what follows is less satisfying. Ubah vs. Brynn has finally kicked into high gear, and it’s… well, it’s something. These two are probably the most unpleasant Housewives on the show, so when they go at each other, it’s a real kerfuffle. Someone should cast them on a spinoff where they can fight endlessly, and then delete all the footage. Somehow, this escalates to Ubah saying she was cast on the show because of her authentic sparkle, unlike Brynn, who slept her way onto Bravo, famously a network full of straight men at the top. It’s definitely a low blow, but it is engaging. It just would be better if it went somewhere. Everyone kind of sits in shock as they let the confessionals do all the work, making the moment less of a glass-shattering break and more inconsequential. If there were ever doubt you need good producerial Housewives like Heather Gay to turn small moments into zeitgeist definers, here’s proof. Back at the villa, Jessel extends an “olive leaf” to Erin. Not a branch! Just a leaf. Meanwhile, the ladies gather for a nice breakfast, where Ubah accidentally whacks Erin with the entire tree. It turns out using a mom dying of cancer as an analogy isn’t exactly the best thing to do when the woman next to you has a mom who’s dying of cancer. Every week, the Housewives teach us crucial life lessons. The two sob together—while Ubah keeps her airpods in, nonetheless—and come to better terms. Yay! Next, Jessel and Brynn attempt to hash out their differences, to little avail. Brynn isn’t shallow or vapid like Jessel, she says, so that’s probably why she’s closer to Erin. “That was shady. Oof,” Sai says in a confessional, which like, yeah. It is. But we don’t need confessionals to let us know what is abundantly clear. Show, don’t tell! The episode closes on Erin crying some more, before Ubah insults the entirety of Puerto Rico after finding a dead pigeon in the water. I’d like to think that’s an on-the-nose metaphor for this show. I mean, it’s literally dead in the water. But we should be optimistic and hope there’s still some life left in the murky sea. The next episode caps the trip with another Brynn vs. Ubah squabble, before the show heads into its season finale. We’re excitedly close to seeing where this season lands on the “worst seasons of all time” list. If they can stick a respectable landing, it could finally usurp RHOA Season 15 and maybe even RHOBH Season 8. These ladies certainly won’t get an A anytime soon but they could wrap this project up with a respectable C- if they try hard enough At least a flop Housewives season is still supremely watchable this episode offered more than most Netflix reality shows could ever Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here Alec Karam is a former breaking news intern for The Daily Beast and a freelance culture journalist he’s either watching The Real Housewives or talking about it with people who don’t care Cover Page Legal HistorySports SearchPuerto Rico to host Legends Classic between Real Madrid & BarcelonaThe San Juan Daily StarFeb 61 min readBy The Star Staff the legends of Real Madrid and FC Barcelona will play a soccer match in Puerto Rico titled El Clásico de Leyendas (Legends Classic) 2025 at Juan Ramón Loubriel Stadium in Bayamón The match will bring together iconic figures from international soccer Guti Haz and Steve McManaman for Real Madrid “The Legends Classic has traveled the world and now we land in Puerto Rico where there is a growing passion for soccer,” said Isidoro San José “It will be an honor for our players to give their all in front of the Puerto Rican fans.” The legends will be on the island for three days protocol events and tourist visits to promote Puerto Rico as a destination heads the production of the event with an investment of almost $4 million “The impact of this event is enormous for our city and for all of Puerto Rico,” Bayamón Mayor Ramón Luis Rivera Cruz said “Not only does it bring in the main figures of world soccer but it also boosts tourism and the economy.” VIP suites and additional stands will be added expanding the stadium’s capacity to 20,000 Ticket sales will be available beginning this Friday through Ticketerapr © 2025 The San Juan Daily Star - Puerto Rico VIDEO | Real Madrid's Puerto Rican Talisman Also Brings Luck to His CountryOne of Real Madrid's young prospects scored his first goal for his national team.Puerto Rican and Real Madrid rising star Jeremy De León made his international scoring debut in a friendly match between Puerto Rico and Anguilla showing that the Spanish club has plenty of talent for the future De León scored his first goal and provided an assist in an international match for his team netting a penalty kick where he cleverly outwitted the goalkeeper Germany Hit with Euro Absence, Nagelsmann Calls Up Champions League Finalist He celebrated like one of his idols at Real Madrid indicating his admiration for his teammate who will represent England in the upcoming Euro 2024 in Germany Navantia Seanergies has completed the construction of the substation jacket foundation for the Iles d’Yeu et de Noirmoutier offshore wind farm in France The unit has been loaded onto a barge at the Puerto Real shipyard in Cádiz The jacket foundation for the offshore wind farm’s substation is almost 64 metres high and weighs 1,700 tonnes the unit has been completely built on schedule at the Puerto Real shipyard in Cádiz a joint venture between the French company Engie and the Portuguese company EDP Renováveis selected Spain’s Navantia to build two jacket-type foundations and the associated piles for the substations of the 496 MW Iles d’Yeu et de Noirmoutier and the 496 MW Dieppe Le Tréport wind farms According to Navantia Seanergies’ latest social media post, a second substation jacket for Dieppe Le Tréport is currently under construction at the Puerto Real shipyard The Iles d’Yeu et de Noirmoutier offshore substation will be built by Chantiers de l’Atlantique in Saint-Nazaire The wind farm’s foundation and the substation will be transported and installed by DEME and Allseas the Belgian company will install the pin piles for the jacket foundation and transport the jacket and the topside to the project site the jacket and the topside will be transferred to Allseas’ vessel Pioneering Spirit for installation with its 5000-tonne crane The 496 MW Iles D’Yeu et Noirmoutier offshore wind farm is located off the coast of Vendée 11.6 kilometres from the island of Yeu and 16.5 kilometres from Noirmoutier The project is developed by Éoliennes en Mer des Îles d’Yeu et de Noirmoutier (EMYN) a consortium including Ocean Winds (an ENGIE and EDPR joint venture) La Banque des Territoires and Vendée Energie Get in front of your target audience in one move OffshoreWIND.biz is read by thousands of offshore wind professionals daily Daily news and in-depth stories in your inbox Leveraging 20 years of experience with offshore windDecember 2023 will forever mark a milestone in our company history as we became part of the world-wide CS WIND group The acquisition goes beyond a mere change in ownership; it marks a leap into a future where our combined strengths will pave the way for optimized production […] You are using an outdated browser. Please upgrade your browser or activate Google Chrome Frame to improve your experience The 133 MW Puerto Real 1 project is the first phase of a planned 223 MW solar plant in Cádiz Swiss asset management firm Capital Dynamics last year acquired plant and has also purchased the upcoming 50 MW Puerto Real 2 project Ireland's WElink Group and China Triumph International Engineering Co. (CTIEC) have completed the 133 MW Puerto Real 1 project in the Spanish province of Cádiz The plant, equipped with modules from Chinese PV manufacturer Jetion Solar was connected to the grid on March 18 after seven months of construction located in the administrative district of Puerto Real while the first phase of the solar farm has a capacity of 133 MW using more than 330,000 Jetion Solar JT SGh395W 1500V high-efficiency mono PERC PV modules Puerto Real 1 is one of the largest unsubsidized utility-scale solar power plants currently constructed in Spain The solar farm is estimated to reduce greenhouse emissions by more than 175,000 metric tons once fully operational – the equivalent of emissions produced by 38,000 passenger vehicles driven for a year or the electricity to power almost 30,000 homes for a year part of China National Building Materials Group Corporation (CNBM) The project managed to overcome a number of adverse factors Jetion Solar faced a price spike in the second half of 2020 and logistics difficulties caused by the epidemic but nevertheless managed to finish the work on schedule WElink Group project director Victor Jimenez said the companies had achieved a key milestone with the energization of Puerto Real 1 “The achievement was possible thanks to efforts and commitment of Jetion Solar … This unsubsidized project is part of our long-term development strategy and we look forward to further opportunities in Spain.” Swiss asset management firm Capital Dynamics last year acquired 100% of the 133 MW Puerto Real 1 project through its Clean Energy Infrastructure (CEI) business and in March announced the acquisition of the upcoming 50 MW Puerto Real 2 project Jetion Solar said the Puerto Real 1 project had further expanded its market share in Spain and and consolidated its leading position noting that the country “has one of the highest solar resources in Europe and a favorable operating environment with low development costs.” More articles from Edgar Meza Please be mindful of our community standards and website in this browser for the next time I comment Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" By submitting this form you agree to pv magazine using your data for the purposes of publishing your comment Your personal data will only be disclosed or otherwise transmitted to third parties for the purposes of spam filtering or if this is necessary for technical maintenance of the website Any other transfer to third parties will not take place unless this is justified on the basis of applicable data protection regulations or if pv magazine is legally obliged to do so You may revoke this consent at any time with effect for the future in which case your personal data will be deleted immediately your data will be deleted if pv magazine has processed your request or the purpose of data storage is fulfilled Further information on data privacy can be found in our Data Protection Policy Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value" This website uses cookies to anonymously count visitor numbers. View our privacy policy. × The cookie settings on this website are set to "allow cookies" to give you the best browsing experience possible If you continue to use this website without changing your cookie settings or you click "Accept" below then you are consenting to this Close Puerto Ricans are facing new and ongoing threats to health including those that stem from the spread of COVID-19 The deadly global pandemic has brought widespread economic disruption all while the medical system continues to recover from recent shocks Many in Puerto Rico lack homes or safe places due to ongoing earthquakes including a 5.4 magnitude tremor that shook the island earlier this spring destroying buildings and again knocking out power With warmer water temperatures and hurricane season upon us the potential impact of overlapping disasters can cause deep anxiety among citizens Puerto Rico moved quickly to lock down public activity due to COVID-19 while continuing to manufacture essential medical supplies and expedite stimulus for vulnerable individuals and critical medical equipment produced on the island Puerto Ricans drive the national response to COVID-19 Nonprofit groups and businesses have found ways to support those without work and protect public safety The community spirit needed to respond to these threats can be found everywhere one looks responding to these disasters and restarting the economy will also require an effective keeping the lights on at essential businesses and families connected for work and school at home but limited progress has been achieved to strengthen the grid after Hurricane Maria Power generation remains reliant on fossil fuels and Puerto Ricans continue to experience persistent outages despite paying high rates And recent choices for the power system could create new risks while missing an opportunity for real resilience Puerto Rico has been planning for the improved grid of the future in the appropriate integrated resource planning process Yet the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) has acted in advance of that process to expedite investments in gas power particularly a project in San Juan and new “emergency” generation at twelve distributed sites across the island the latter of which PREPA now says has been scrapped PREPA has stated that these gas sites will be financed by FEMA but electricity customers must pay if this support does not materialize PREPA’s own analysis shows that when combined with batteries renewable energy investments can improve resilience of the system solar and battery-powered microgrids are not dependent on deliveries of fuel which can be significantly disrupted in a hurricane or earthquake Solar and batteries aren’t just more reliable In the Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) process PREPA found that renewable energy and energy efficiency are the most cost-effective options In the recent IRP’s recommended “Energy System Modernization” scenario baseload costs are projected to decline over 5 percent between 2019 and 2025 “…primarily due to the retirement of older generation and the addition of solar and storage.” (Puerto Rico Integrated Resource Plan Rev If PREPA has opted to not go forward with some of its new gas-fired generation proposals then it’s the Energy Bureau’s duty to etch that decision in stone If any of these gas investments move forward communities will have to bear the financial and environmental costs and will lose the opportunity for reliable and resilient power The choice is clear: Puerto Rico must pursue solar and energy efficiency to quickly create jobs and move toward a more resilient grid less dependent on external supply chains This path is not only logical: it’s the law in Puerto Rico as amended by the bipartisan and forward-looking Act 17 of 2019 requires that the Energy Bureau approve PREPA’s proposed IRP within the guardrails of Puerto Rico law and the public interest considering “all reasonable resources to satisfy the demand for electric power including […] energy conservation and efficiency The Bureau must also ensure that environmental impact assessments related to air emissions and climate change proceed and thoroughly consider rapid integration of distributed generation and renewable energy projects as required by Act 17 of 2019 the legislation requires that “no contract for the establishment of new electric power plants may preclude compliance with the Renewable Portfolio Standard and the integration of distributed generation Power purchase agreements shall be awarded taking into account the goals and mandates established in the Renewable Portfolio Standard which compel the transition from energy generation from fossil fuels to an aggressive integration of renewable energy…” (Sec The Energy Bureau is ready to issue its final IRP resolution and there is measured optimism in the community that a binding instrument will be adopted to guide both Puerto Rico’s short- and long-term energy path This final IRP resolution can and should help wean Puerto Rico off its self-destructive addiction to fossil fuels through appropriate planning and stimulus investments Federal support can help achieve this pathway and should be brought to bear by unified and organized Puerto Rican entities PREPA should increase support for community-centric solar and storage microgrids as they can save communities money support the broader grid and provide back-up power in outages simultaneously relying on the IRP which shows these gas investments damage air quality we can create new jobs and put people back to work supporting a post-COVID-19 economic recovery while installing the clean This article was first published as an op-ed in Spanish in El Nuevo Día. Our vision is a world thriving, verdant, and secure, for all, forever. Your donation to RMI helps us continue our vital work When you sign up, we will keep you informed with the latest RMI news and insights through periodic email communication. We don’t flood you with panic-inducing headlines or race to be first We focus on being useful to you — breaking down the news in ways that inform We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism Will you support our work and become a Vox Member today and the legacy of a colonialist past have combined for a perfect storm by Izzie Ramirez LinkA protester holds aloft a Puerto Rican flag during a demonstration outside the governor’s mansion in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on January 23, 2020, after a warehouse full of emergency aid was discovered undistributed to those in need. Ricardo Arduengo/AFP via Getty ImagesIzzie Ramirez is a deputy editor of Future Perfect Vox’s section on the myriad challenges and efforts in making the world a better place She oversees the Future Perfect fellowship program.After a disaster strikes once the dead have been counted and the immediate damage stops recovery is almost always the first question How do we build things back to the way they were or even better “Given that our collective ability to overcome these events has actually diminished since Hurricane María in 2017,” Raúl Santiago-Bartolomei a professor of urban planning at the University of Puerto Rico “both federal and local government policies in these areas have proven to be failures.” But much of the reason why Puerto Rico is so poor boils down in large part to the long-term consequences of colonialism which has held the territory back from making progress Although Biden likely has a better-intentioned game plan in mind for Puerto Rico’s recovery than his predecessor the problems on the island run much deeper than poor electricity infrastructure and sea walls According to activists and scholars in Puerto Rico and in the diaspora adaptation plans alone won’t be enough to improve the lives of everyday people living on the island There will need to be a major reevaluation of the colonialist underpinnings — the debt crisis and Puerto Rico’s political structure for one — in order for any kind of climate-resilient infrastructure to happen complicated problems the world faces and the most efficient ways to solve them In fact, Puerto Ricans have been American citizens since the Jones-Shafroth Act was signed by President Woodrow Wilson in 1917 (which also meant that Puerto Rican men were eligible for conscription — convenient timing given the US entrance into World War I that year) The act also established the Puerto Rican Senate which has 27 elected members who work to pass laws Puerto Ricans have never been able to vote in general presidential elections and have no voting representative in Congress Puerto Ricans also do not pay federal income taxes While Puerto Rico has power over its internal affairs — which are delegated through its own executive, judicial, and legislative branches — the US has control over its foreign relations, commerce, trade, and more, as long as there is a US law that supersedes Puerto Rican law but without voting representatives in Congress or a voice in presidential elections Puerto Rico doesn’t have a say in federal laws that may impact its operations Congress is also the only body that can change Puerto Rico’s political status from a territory into a state or into an independent nation which again means that decision would be taken — or not — without the will of Puerto Rican voters a professor of Latin American and Caribbean history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison “You will see that the reason why Puerto Ricans were not granted statehood [at the time] was precisely because the United States — including the president and academics as well — did not think that Puerto Ricans were fit to govern themselves.” Because Puerto Rican bonds aren’t taxed unlike most bonds from the state or federal government they were more appealing to investors — so Puerto Rico used them as a strategy to fund its expenses we knew that the debt that Puerto Rico was accruing was unpayable,” Meléndez-Badillo said “So this is basically the legal and economic infrastructure of Puerto Rico that has been collapsing for two decades now.” In response to the crisis, US Congress passed the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA) in 2016 Its main action was to establish a fiscal committee to restructure Puerto Rico’s crippling debt any political moves made by the Puerto Rican government that require spending must have the fiscal board’s approval “These sets of policies have substantially reduced local government capacity, which was made readily apparent in the aftermath of Hurricane María, the 2020 southern earthquakes Hurricane Fiona,” Santiago-Bartolomei said Because of the sheer amount of destruction caused, Hurricane María slowed down Puerto Rico’s efforts to repay its existing debt It also created opportunities for cheaper land and profit-making and infrastructure projects for non-Puerto Rican investors with resources — the most obvious example being the 2021 privatization of the electricity grid by LUMA Energy Even before Fiona made landfall, it was clear that the electricity grid had no ability to withstand the stress of another storm. (The attorney general of New York is now calling for an investigation into LUMA after the failures last month.) “In the five years since Maria people’s lives have even been more devastated by things like the energy privatization,” said Sarah Molinari an anthropologist studying how communities organize in the face of disaster in Puerto Rico “The resulting disparities from local residential displacement and opportunities likely outweigh any [economic] benefit” “I see the future” and it’s wonderful After María struck, Puerto Rico did create plans to rebuild infrastructure in a way that would be better prepared for climate impacts but its government — hampered by La Junta and debt — had a slow and mangled response It seems likely that the response after Fiona will be similar that’s not the fault of Puerto Ricans themselves The island’s government has operated the only way it knows how to at this point: under the colonial rules instituted by the US You can’t succeed when you’re set up to fail as if this didn’t happen during [Hurricane] Harvey or through the wildfire season in California Citizenship is not going to shield Puerto Ricans just like it didn’t for other marginalized groups told me that collective rage had been building for years a continued activation of the ways we saw people coming together right after María,” she said “It’s something to keep an eye on People’s anxiety and anger is very high right now after Fiona This might open up another political moment where all kinds of possibilities and horizons are on the table.” Such a group could have representatives from local and federal agencies to prevent the “austerity regime” we’re seeing implemented now by the fiscal board Meléndez-Badillo echoed the sentiment of needing economic projects that are based on community and solidarity “Survival in Puerto Rico is a political act,” he said “We need to rephrase Miranda: I see the future and it’s beautiful It’s a Puerto Rico full of Puerto Ricans.” we're unwavering in our commitment to covering the issues that matter most to you — threats to democracy and the rising polarization across this country accessible journalism that empowers you to stay informed and engaged in shaping our world you directly strengthen our ability to deliver in-depth independent reporting that drives meaningful change MembershipMonthlyAnnualOne-time$5/month$10/month$25/month$50/monthOther$50/year$100/year$150/year$200/yearOther$25$50$100$250OtherJoin for $10/monthWe accept credit card Sorry, a robot is probably a safer driver than most humans. 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In its first 100 days, the Trump administration has moved to roll back food safety measures, endanger slaughterhouse workers, and more. 2019 6:31 AM EDTMiranda is a founding partner of the MirRam Group and the founding president of the Hispanic FederationWhen I flew to Puerto Rico in 2017 and looked out at the damage caused by Hurricane Maria I realized that the island on which I was born and raised would never be the same The landscapes and topographies I knew so well were gone I was confident that the island would recover but I also knew that what would emerge would be something different we woke up to the news that two prominent former cabinet members of Governor Ricardo Rosselló’s government had been arrested by the FBI for allegedly funneling over $15 million in contracts to business friends at least 889 pages of private chat transcripts between the governor and more than 10 others–government officials and political friends–were released laid bare something that went beyond corruption We saw a government that wasn’t just venal but also contemptuous Puerto Ricans are a remarkably tolerant and understanding people Yet in the weeks since the arrests and the revelations of the chats Puerto Ricans are finally tired of the lies and manipulation Governor Rosselló at a press conference on his administration’s scandal on July 16.Carlos Giusti—APCollective shame and anger is propelling people to action–and they have taken to the streets by the hundreds of thousands It’s tempting to see the protests as simply a repudiation of an unpopular governor but while Rosselló may have sparked this uprising Decades of bipartisan mismanagement and corruption unscrupulous financial schemes hatched on Wall Street and purposeful neglect by the U.S Congress crippled the island well before Hurricane Maria On the eve of what would have been the island’s largest financial default my family and others supported efforts by President Obama to shelter Puerto Rico from bankruptcy with congressional action Even this effort has proved to be deeply flawed Instead of dealing with the island’s more than $73 billion debt the new law implemented devastating austerity measures that have left the most vulnerable Puerto Ricans without hope Governor Rosselló tried to stem the tide of popular unrest by announcing that he would not run for re-election in 2020 One look at the Puerto Ricans who took to the streets should have disabused him of any notion that he had the legitimacy to represent anyone on the island now or ever What Puerto Ricans need is his immediate resignation a pathological liar with a history of denigrating Puerto Rico has been using the crisis to further his claim that the island is irredeemably corrupt and ungovernable He is holding hostage billions of dollars in needed federal recovery assistance and would have been less likely to release funds with Rosselló still in power Puerto Rico could not suffer a lame-duck governor while the island’s economy teeters on the edge the American writer and critic Alfred Kazin referred to Puerto Ricans as “lamblike.” Kazin was wrong He misread our generosity of spirit as a weakness Governor Rosselló made the same mistake Every administration has had its share of scandals But after the destruction of Hurricane Maria–when the average Puerto Rican had to wait in long lines for essentials like gas and FEMA kept denying their applications for help and then when President Trump visited the island to throw rolls of paper towels to them–people have no patience for crooks anymore He must have realized the damage he was causing to the island I dealt with him several times as we worked hard to attract tourism to remake the coffee industry and to drive initiatives after Hurricane Maria How could he pick political partners who would make fun of Hurricane Maria’s dead for a cheap laugh or to punish a political opponent The people of Puerto Rico know they deserve better Their collective power has unseated corruption Something in Puerto Rico has changed forever For those of us who migrated to New York or Spain or anywhere in the world our job is to take the lead from our family in Puerto Rico It is our responsibility to make sure that this change results in a more resilient and prosperous Puerto Rico Contact us at letters@time.com European energy company MET Group has inaugurated its 50MW Puerto Real 3 solar PV project in the Cadiz region of Andalusia MET acquired a 100% ownership of Puerto Real in 2022 at a ready-to-build stage The site has deployed 88,000 solar modules across a 130 hectare area Construction was completed in conjunction with CMC Europe procurement and construction (EPC) company MET Group has been active in Spain for seven years through its subsidiary MET Energía España The majority of MET’s operation are in the natural gas and power market sectors renewables CEO of MET Group said: “We currently operate six solar power plants in Hungary and two wind farms in Bulgaria Other diverse 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Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker Heather Gay Buys the Craziest Souvenir in Puerto VallartaPreviewHeather Gay Buys the Craziest Souvenir in Puerto VallartaHeather Gay chooses the craziest gift as the ladies of Salt Lake City stop at a souvenir shop during their Puerto Vallarta trip Get news and updates about your favorite shows plus 3 free credits to watch locked content Peacock is the streaming home of your favorite Bravo shows plus so much more ShareSaveCommentBusinessSportsMoneyReal Madrid Move For 19-Year-Old Puerto Rican Winger, Relevo ReportsBySam Leveridge Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights Sam Leveridge is a reporter based in Spain with a focus on soccer.Follow AuthorJan 04 09:30am ESTShareSaveCommentJeremy de León has been linked with a move to the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu Real Madrid are continuing to look to the future with their transfer business and the next target could be Castellón’s teenage sensation Jeremy de León The 19-year-old winger has shown great promise in Primera División RFEF and could be available at a bargain price which Los Blancos are considering who has broken into the Castellón team over the past 18 months and has caught the eye of Real Madrid scouts This is not the first time that Real Madrid have pursued De León given their interest in 2022 and last summer but the youngster instead opted to stay at Castellón and sign a professional contract with a guarantee of first team football De León is now into the final six months of his existing contract and has no intention to renew meaning that Castellón could look to cash in this January before he is poached for free in the summer The teenager has played in 44 games for Castellón on the east coast of Spain scoring two goals and providing two assists in the process he has become a first team regular before falling out of favor as negotiations over a new contract became tense he could become the first Puerto Rican to play for Real Madrid since Eduardo Ordóñez in 1927 Ordóñez made eight appearances for the club before later playing for Atlético Madrid and Madrid CF Should De León arrive in the Spanish capital he would join up with Raúl González’s Castilla side the second string of Real Madrid who operate in the Primera División RFEF division in the third tier of Spanish soccer The club are also anticipating a possible departure for Peter Federico González with Valencia interested in the right-winger who is now 21 years of age and has not been involved with the first team since May 2022 when he played 15 minutes off the bench in a 6-0 win over Levante Raúl’s system relies heavily on wide players and gives them opportunities to cut into the final third and De León would seem the perfect fit for that He featured off the bench against Castilla in October and recorded an assist in a 4-1 win for Castellón Castellón currently sit top of their group while Castilla are in 10th place dropping off after qualifying for the playoffs in last season’s campaign Real Madrid are not the only club looking to recruit De León with fellow LALIGA sides Villarreal and Valencia monitoring his progress closely Both are geographically close to Castellón and enjoy good relationships with the club Villarreal are believed to be in pole position and would be looking to add De León for their B team That could prove crucial in persuading De León ahead of Real Madrid’s offer to join Castilla who play at the same level as Castellón On the north coast of the island of Hispaniola, between rugged mountains and the Caribbean Sea, there is a wide stretch of grassland. Today, this area of Haiti is known as the Plaine-du-Nord but it is dotted with archaeological sites that chronicle millennia of indigenous Taíno settlements and a small farm sits atop what was once Puerto Real Puerto Real was a bustling cattle town with a dark story: Built on conquest operated through exploitation and lawlessness it was ultimately destroyed by the very government that had founded it rediscovered only in 1975 by an amateur archaeologist Extensive excavations in the following decades revealed it was one of the largest Spanish sites in the Caribbean The story that eventually comes ashore at Assateague begins in 1503 when Spain established Puerto Real as part of their brutal campaign of conquest of the indigenous Taíno people many Taíno were forced to work there as servants and laborers under the Spanish colonial system of encomienda Puerto Real emerged as an important town in the Caribbean supplying beef and particularly leather throughout the region and to Spain and far from more heavily trafficked trade routes its people “very happily traded” with anyone who turned up “The government of Spain tried to get them to stop but they just wouldn’t,” Deagan adds They relocated residents to a settlement easier to control and razed Puerto Real archaeological excavations at the site unearthed pieces of its illicit but cosmopolitan past The digs turned up something else: animal bones “had piles of bones everywhere.” Florida Museum of Natural History zooarchaeologist Nicolas Delsol studying the Spanish introduction of cattle to the Americas turned to the bits of bone and tooth in the Puerto Real collection He extracted genetic material from several of the fragments labeled as cow teeth Because of their age and Hispaniola’s hot he knew it was unlikely that any nuclear DNA an organism’s full genetic blueprint especially in really hot areas,” he says “It doesn’t preserve well.” So Delsol concentrated on mitochondrial DNA inherited from an organism’s mother and stored outside the cell’s nucleus mtDNA is easier to access and more plentiful than DNA is also much shorter than a full genome—which makes it easier to read and cheaper to sequence While mtDNA preserves only the matrilineal side of an individual’s origin story and it gives a lot of information about the ancestry of an organism.” this doesn’t look right,” Delsol says he realized one of the fragments came from a partial horse tooth mistakenly labeled as that of a cow He was finishing his thesis on cattle—“I was really focused on my cows,” he says—so Delsol set the data aside Aware that it was the oldest genetic material from a domestic horse in the Americas and that it might have secrets of its own to reveal he eventually took another look at the horse mitogenome Comparing it with a recently published database of modern horse mitogenomes from around the world he made a second unexpected discovery: The horse most closely related to the 16th-century Puerto Real horse was something called a Chincoteague pony “Chincoteague pony didn’t ring a bell because I’m from France,” says Delsol As word spread of the unexpected genetic link he’d found Delsol quickly learned that the Chincoteague ponies occupy a special place in the hearts of many Americans who’d read about them in a children’s book “So many people told me it was a very significant read when they were young,” Delsol says “I learned a lot about American culture.” He also discovered that no one knew how the Chincoteague ponies ended up on the Atlantic barrier island of Assateague, which straddles Maryland and Virginia Although named for the island of Chincoteague the feral ponies have roamed Assateague Island for hundreds of years however—and where they came from—remains a mystery First published in 1947, Marguerite Henry’s novel Misty of Chincoteague focused on the bond between a pony and two children but it also took local lore about the animals nationwide The book embraced the legend that the feral ponies of Assateague were the descendants of Spanish horses that had survived a shipwreck centuries earlier Henry’s novel became a classic and was eventually made into a movie perpetuating the romantic idea of four-legged shipwreck survivors roaming free on a narrow the heartwarming tale had no hard evidence to support it The Spanish shipwreck story had been circulating along the Delmarva Peninsula long before Henry put pen to paper had an alternate version of the Assateague herd’s origins: The animals descended from horses kept on the barrier island by English settlers their owners abandoned them there at some point Believers of this English origin pointed to one big problem they saw in the competing shipwreck story: No one had ever found a Spanish wreck in the waters around Assateague Written records indicate that at least two Spanish Royal Navy ships sank in the area: La Galga a warship sailing from Havana to Spain in 1750 Treasure hunters and local farmers alike have found artifacts such as Spanish coins and even a rusted anchor but the exact location of either ship has not been conclusively established One offshore wreck site is generally thought to be that of Juno which ran aground in shallow waters close to shore Independent maritime historian John Amrhein Jr. author of The Hidden Galleon: The true story of a lost Spanish ship and the wild ponies of Assateague Island has been hunting for La Galga since the early 1980s He believes that he has identified the wreck’s location—not in the water but on Assateague itself in what was once an inlet but is now high and dry thanks to the shifting topography of barrier islands Historical records document that La Galga’s crew removed their belongings—without mention of any horses—and that locals later salvaged much of the wood and iron But Amrhein believes the lower third of the hull including stones and other material used for ballast possibly along with evidence of four-legged passengers I hope there is something that proves the horses were aboard.” Amrhein has conducted numerous surveys around the federally owned area over the past four decades but he has yet to secure permission to dig It’s an issue he has some strong feelings about which manage different areas of the island have long promoted the English origin theory in their public outreach They want to discredit the shipwreck legend,” Amrhein says “They’re trying to halt my archaeological investigation They don’t want it to happen because if I find the wreck there will be a political controversy.” embroiled in or impacted by a long-running legal dispute about the wrecks of La Galga and Juno—even though neither ship has been found “Treasure fever does crazy things to people,” says Amrhein after the salvage company claimed to have found both ships—by producing a handful of coins and other artifacts that could have “come from any shipwreck”—the Spanish government asserted its ownership of the wrecks A court eventually ruled in favor of Spain creating the unusual circumstance of a foreign government owning any artifacts found on U.S Amrhein says that to investigate further the site he has identified as “exactly where the ship is,” he’s been told he must acknowledge Spain owns the wreck and get permission from its government—two things he refuses to do Amrhein holds out hope that he’ll find La Galga, and potentially evidence that horses were aboard. He says Delsol’s research, published in July in the open-access journal PLOS One “is going to be helpful for what I’m doing” as he continues to advocate for the ponies’ Spanish shipwreck origin story emailed to Atlas Obscura by a representative of the Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Company reads in part: “The findings are quite exciting and definitely lend value to the legend our concentration remains solely in that capacity.” Fish and Wildlife Service’s Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge A National Park Service representative of the Assateague Island National Seashore emailed a statement that reads in part: “While Assateague has no immediate plans to make significant changes to our outreach materials park staff will continue to review the information from this recent genetic study and will share these findings with other scientists The National Park Service representative also sent a copy of a 2005 report providing an initial genetic profile of ponies on Assateague The report does not address the ponies’ origin and was intended as a conservation tool to better manage the modern population the 2005 report analyzed only a small portion of the animals’ mitogenome: about 500 base pairs each pair essentially representing one rung of DNA’s ladder-like double helix Delsol’s research compared the Puerto Real horse’s complete mitogenome to those of more than 80 horses worldwide “Using complete mitogenomes offers a much more accurate view,” says Delsol He adds that having the Puerto Real horse’s full mitogenome—a first for a colonial-era horse—means he can place the animal on its family tree “with relatively high confidence.” But the new research is far from conclusive proof that the Chincoteague ponies came from La Galga while significant as the oldest genetic material of its kind in the Americas reveals the ancestry of just one-half of one animal was full of pirates and other seafaring sorts who traveled far beyond the Caribbean that descendents of the Puerto Real horse found themselves sailing north with an English privateer looking to retire somewhere along the Atlantic Seaboard “Trade was trade,” says Deagan of Puerto Real’s freewheeling market “They could have traded horses.” There is no record of ponies on Assateague until well after the arrival of English colonizers in the 17th century Given the value of horses for transport and labor an established herd of wild ponies would not have escaped the settlers’ notice But Delsol believes the ponies may provide a clue to an otherwise hidden chapter in colonial American history All we can say is that they are really closely related to Spanish horses from Hispaniola,” Delsol says “The main Spanish explorations focused on the Caribbean and Mexico but they were also present in the Mid-Atlantic It’s highly plausible that the Spanish were around this area.” Delsol continues to analyze the Puerto Real tooth which is now part of a larger study of early domestic horses in the Americas he is attempting to extract and sequence any remaining nuclear DNA from the specimen as well as preserved chemical clues to the animal’s birthplace and other details “to clarify the history of these horses to complete the story that we can tell.” stripping away centuries of microbial contamination and piecing together what has been lost to degradation in a tropical environment is difficult but Delsol hopes to have at least preliminary results within the next year If his team is able to reconstruct the Puerto Real horse’s full story the long-running debate over the lineage of the Chincoteague ponies Or it may provide even more unexpected layers of mystery leaving space for theories about the animals’ origins to roam freely like ponies through tall grasses fringing a dune We depend on ad revenue to craft and curate stories about the world’s hidden wonders Consider supporting our work by becoming a member for as little as $5 a month Follow us on Twitter to get the latest on the world's hidden wonders Like us on Facebook to get the latest on the world's hidden wonders July 2023 – Navantia shipyards of Puerto Real and San Fernando have started the production phase of a Maritime Action Ship for Underwater Intervention (BAM-IS) for the Spanish Navy and one Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV) for the Royal Moroccan Navy the maneuvers consisted of cutting the first plate of a pilot block to fine-tune the production systems belonging to the upper part of the engine room control and management tools implemented in the shipyard to be put into operation and tested The BAM-IS will be the first ship built at the Puerto Real shipyard using such tools which will be named ‘Poseidon’ will be the specialized and equipped platform for salvage and submarine rescue support it will be the Spanish Navy’s main unit for supporting diving operations replacing the rescue and salvage vessel ‘Neptune’ The manufacture of the BAM-IS responds to a need associated with the S-80 submarines to provide support and guarantee the safety of the crews throughout their operational life The BAM-IS vessel is highly modular in nature it enables the installation of different modular systems that allow it to be configured for different mission profiles: diving operations it also has an innovative propulsion and electrical generation plant energy storage systems and cycloidal thrusters which provides it with the capacity to maintain a highly accurate dynamic positioning even in adverse weather conditions all in compliance with the most demanding environmental standards this new unit for the Navy will be capable of operating with the NATO Submarine Rescue System “NSRS” will allow it to obtain for the first time for a Spanish Navy ship the ‘MOSHIP’ certification to act as a mother ship for NATO submarine Rescue and Rescue systems It will also be equipped with remotely operated vehicles (ROV) capable of remote underwater exploration and intervention identical maneuvers have been undertaken in the fabrication workshop to build an Offshore Patrol Vessel for the Royal Moroccan Navy The construction of this OPV for Morocco also includes a technical-logistical support package (spare parts including technical training services for the personnel of the Royal Moroccan Navy in Spain The OPV is a solution that guarantees long periods of deployment at sea with very low operating and life-cycle costs the design of its systems aims to maintain operability Photo courtesy NAVANTIA Indo Defence – Jakarta – 11-14 June DSEI – London – 9-12 September PARTNER – Belgrade – 23-26 September Seafuture – La Spezia – 29 Sept.-2 October ADEX – Seoul – 29 October-2 November Dubai Air Show – Dubai – 17-21 November Milipol Paris – Paris – 18-21 Novenber Expodefensa – Bogotá – 1-3 December than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed.” So reads what is arguably the most emulated political statement in the history of the Western world, whose proclamation in July 1776 Americans celebrate annually as the birth of their republic. In the same year, though several months earlier, the British revolutionary Thomas Paine had written that “a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.” In reminding the reader of how “time makes more converts than reason,” Paine was priming his audience to face a hard truth—that the British crown’s control over its American colonies amounted to bald tyranny and that the only recourse for the colonies was to unite and secure their independence Still, the colonists weren’t simply concerned with taxes, which were already lower in the 13 colonies than in Britain At issue was autonomy: the right and ability of the colonies to govern themselves the Navigation Acts had restricted trade between the colonies and the outside world The Currency Act made it harder for the colonies to pay their debts and kept the American economy from being as robust as it might have been otherwise Colonial assemblies also resented having to pay for the stationing of British soldiers after the French and Indian War The presence of so many redcoats lent an aura of military occupation to places such as New York and whose provincial assembly outright refused to support a standing army during peacetime In the years leading up to the Revolutionary War George III and Parliament received a plethora of letters and petitions from Pennsylvania farmers Virginia planters and other sons of liberty who were tired of getting the royal treatment But the most well-known list of grievances would reach London in mid-August 1776 Written in 17 days by a 33-year-old Virginia slave owner the Declaration of Independence asserts that “all men are created equal,” that the best governments acquire their authority by consent of the people they govern and that it is not only the right of the people but it is their duty to overthrow any government that doesn’t respond to their will and needs The document then goes on to give reasons for separation between the colonies and the crown—namely that the American colonies had been transformed into military-police states where matters concerning the economy trade and foreign relations were decided unilaterally by a greedy overseas power (Photo: David Amsler) while Greeks contemplate leaving the Eurozone in order to regain control of its finances few Puerto Ricans consider independence the answer to the Puerto Rican crisis In fact many Puerto Ricans believe integration into the American system will assuage this colonial calamity just as an abused woman too often convinces herself that getting married or having a child will pacify her lover Instead of struggling to free the island from America’s jaws a lot of Puerto Ricans are hoping to just be swallowed already Even now as Puerto Rico stares down a $73 billion debt that Governor Alejandro García Padilla says is “not payable,” one common refrain by those who oppose Puerto Rican independence remains the supposed economic stability Puerto Rico enjoys under American sovereignty Indeed much of the blame for the current debt crisis is focused on the phasing out of federal tax exemptions and credits that incentivized business on the island Boricua Loyalists fail (or are unwilling) to see is that the tax advantages offered to U.S businesses merely swelled corporate profits without fortifying the Puerto Rican economy The trickle-down theory of neoliberal economics has been proven patently false on the island of Puerto Rico as the elimination of taxes on corporations and the wealthy set up a paper economy in Puerto Rico Rather than giving Puerto Rico a fish or teaching Puerto Ricans to fish for themselves Washington’s policy has been to allow Wall Street to fish in Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico has too many Puerto Ricans for either scenario to occur.) ought to feel the burden.” You would expect the U.S government (one supposedly founded on the rule of law) to abide by that old legal maxim This 4th of July weekend will see millions of Puerto Ricans proudly displaying the Stars and Stripes alongside the flag of the commonwealth just as they’ve done for decades having shed blood for both banners in every American conflict since the First World War Yet whenever a Puerto Rican sings the “The Star-Spangled Banner” or pledges allegiance to the American flag he or she should ask themselves: What makes the 13 colonies so different from the Puerto Rican one Why is it good and just for British subjects in Philadelphia to break away from Britain citizens in San Juan to break away from the United States government describe the violence and destruction perpetrated by the Sons of Liberty as heroic and yet imprison members of the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional as terrorists Why does a nation founded in opposition to colonialism itself now rule over colonial subjects Cowardice and complacency lead many on the island and in the diaspora to insist Puerto Rico just simply cannot afford independence Considering the quagmire it finds itself in at the moment it’s clear Puerto Rico cannot afford its current status Nor can the people of Puerto Rico afford to wait another 117 years for the U.S government to deem them worthy of full citizenship rights with the ability to elect their own representation in the federal government as well as voting for their commander-in-chief then rather than planning for a potential statehood decades in the future they must demand their independence now and forever That is the only course of action for a colonized people living in the land of the free and the home of the brave There is no other alternative for any real American Enough with all the confusion of facts and distortions of history or the people of Puerto Rico must struggle to make it so I’m not suggesting any Puerto Rican pick up a rifle or build a bunker it was the Declaration of Independence that proved America’s right to be free Puerto Rico need not push toward statehood just because it has been an American colony for so long When the founders decided to break away from England they chose to separate from an empire they had identified with and loved since birth Before he became a revolutionary hero and the father of a new nation General Washington had proudly served in a royalist militia just as Don Pedro had served in America’s Puerto Rican regiment before becoming an independentista “a long train of abuses” committed against their respective colonies forced both men to take up the sanguinary cause of liberty 1st Lieutenant Pedro Albizu Campos of the U.S Army’s 375th Infantry Regiment (Public Domain) as someone raised on the American system and taught to believe in the idea of America: an idea founded on liberty This idea has rarely matched the reality of America it is the target that the arrow of American history has arced toward from the Civil War to the Civil Rights era from the women’s liberation movement to marriage equality Now is the time for Puerto Ricans to join that American tradition to fight for the universal right to forge one’s own destiny The people of Puerto Rico must do what any other freedom-loving American would do if caught under the heel of an overseas colonial power: do what the Declaration of Independence commands us to do whenever any government attempts to make us slaves by denying us representation and the means to escape the shackles of debt It is time for the people of Puerto Rico —American citizens Hector Luis Alamo is a Chicago-based writer. You can connect with him @HectorLuisAlamo Puerto Rico is not a state  because the congress and the us corporations keep the American citizens of Puerto Rico segregated from the mainland because the congress support corporate welfare The US corporations don’t pay a single penny in federal taxes and recently in November 2012 the people of Puerto Rico voted and decided to join the statehood as the solutions for the colonialism and economical problems We the Puerto Ricans want to assume the same responsibilities of the 50 states we want to pay taxes and vote for the president and to have senators and representation but the actual governor (democrat) with the support of extremist republicans created this chaos to detain the statehood admission of Puerto rico just because the corporations don’t want to pay federal taxes and to keep clean their dirty money from off shore accounts the politician the greed of the US corporations and the media keep the Puerto Rico segregated from the rest of the nation Its time to America to assume the responsibility and to admit Puerto Ricans as the 51 state its a shame to the world and to America to keep the last colony for economical and racial reasons It’s time for Chicago based writers to do the American thing -everyone one of them- and mind their own business […] part of my ongoing campaign to expose the truth about Puerto Rico’s colonial relationship with the United States and the manipulated political system on the island sustained by a culture of capitalist greed and […] […] Puerto Ricans Aren’t Real Americans the colonial nature of Puerto Rico’s political status has been exposed The litigants in this case expect a ruling by April […] generation of Haitians and Dominicans will know true democracy where the president of the United States is practically king This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. 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One of the captions on iFunny, a humor-based website, read: Puerto Rican fishermen fished the world's largest lobster from Gran Canaria Its weight is about 150 kg A YouTube video with a voiceover added to the image in question cited an alleged oceanographer who linked the gigantic size of the creature to climate change:  Puerto Rican fishermen from Gran Canaria have caught the world's largest lobster Gaskell commented on the incident: "The warming of the ocean accelerates the metabolism of the inhabitants of the bottom layer due to the expression of genes responsible for gigantism but far from the limit for a process set in motion by uncontrolled greenhouse gas emissions Among professional biologists and oceanologists there has long been talk about the possible appearance of sharks 50-70 m long but although there is already a scientific basis to substantiate this theory I think this news about the capture of a giant lobster will sober up a lot of people and not every one of them will please us." Although the lobster in question looked impossibly huge and the image essentially debunked itself we followed through by fact-checking the details When we looked closer at the picture, many artifacts seemed off. For instance, the number of fishermen's fingers was inconsistent, the man on the left seemed to be standing on the water, and the fisherman on the right seemed to fade into the boat. Also, the horizon line was weirdly shaped and the man's faces seemed to be fake.  What's more, we have not found any information on an alleged oceanographer, "Teldor F. Gaskell," whose name was cited in various social media posts and articles regarding the picture in question. Finally, the creature in the picture did not resemble an actual lobster. For instance, here's what an American lobster looks like: Because no reputable media outlets reported on the fact that the largest lobster in the world was caught by a fisherman from Puerto Rico, and that the picture had tell-tale signs of being generated by AI (artificial intelligence), we rated this image as Fake. Aleksandra Wrona is a reporting fellow for Snopes, based in the Warsaw area. This material may not be reproduced without permission. Snopes and the Snopes.com logo are registered service marks of Snopes.com And it’s “throwing our budget a little out of whack.” by Alexia Fernández Campbell LinkPresident Donald Trump met with local leaders and federal responders shortly after landing at an Air Force base in Carolina for what was supposed to be a briefing on the situation on the island Trump turned it into an opportunity to congratulate himself and the federal government’s response to the disaster and to say the island should be “very proud” of its low official death count He downplayed throughout his remarks how dire things are in Puerto Rico where more than half of the people don’t have power or cellphone service two weeks after Hurricane Maria “We have gone all out for Puerto Rico,” Trump said during the televised briefing Tuesday And while Puerto Rico clearly needs much more aid — including help from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to repair its damaged infrastructure — Trump decided to focus on how much money it had already spent but you are throwing our budget out of whack,” he said “We’ve spent a lot of money in Puerto Rico.” (As I explain here FEMA has yet to authorize full disaster aid for Puerto Rico) The most uncomfortable part of Trump’s remarks came when he began to compare Puerto Rico to Hurricane Katrina based on how many people had died implying what was happening in Puerto Rico wasn’t a “real catastrophe.” “If you look at the — every death is a horror but if you look at a real catastrophe like Katrina and you look at the tremendous hundreds and hundreds of people that died and what happened here with a storm that was just totally overbearing and then told the leaders assembled that they should all be “very proud.” The reality is that the death count is far higher, as my colleague Eliza Barclay has noted The situation is so bad in Puerto Rico that the government can’t even issue death certificates to count the deceased Below is a rush transcript of Trump’s remarks during the briefing in Puerto Rico we said there is another one heading to Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands [FEMA Administrator] Brock has been unbelievable He is not even from my party and started at the beginning appreciating what we did He was tremendously supportive and knew the level of the problem before and what happened with respect to the tremendous storms that hit I want to tell you that right from the beginning this governor did not play politics at all who actually represents the largest number of people of any Congress person in the United States and she was saying such nice things about all of the people that worked so hard do you think you can say a little bit of what you said about us today It’s about the incredible people from the military to FEMA and the first responders I have never seen people working so hard in my life JENNIFFER GONZÁLEZ-COLÓN: Thank you The first thing is before we were hit by Maria More than 4,000 people were here from the different branches of the military Army and FEMA and all the staff working together before the hurricane and they continue to stay on the island and boots on the ground during Maria We never got the level of communication within the federal and the local government like never before doing the job of the people here like you and the military doing all that is done The president and his Cabinet accomplished it and sent more people and continued to send more trucks and drivers and resources for all you have been doing for the island I saw those comments and everybody saw those comments It’s so important when you have men and women that have worked so hard and so long and many of them came from two other catastrophic hurricanes They came from Texas and they came from Louisiana and came from Florida There was no — how many nights’ rest have you gotten TRUMP: We will keep him for another couple of weeks I want to thank [Small-Business Administration head] Lisa McMahon I said she is in charge of small business and small business is massive business when you add it up Nobody knows how to build a company like those and Mick is in charge of a thing called budget but you are throwing our budget out of whack If you look at the — every death is a horror You can be very proud of all of your people and all of our people working together Sixteen versus literally thousands of people Everyone around this table and everyone watching can be very proud of what’s taking place in Puerto Rico I also want to pay a very special thanks to the Navy They are in the process of opening them up to get here and handle anything that happened to save lives with FEMA and with the governor of Puerto Rico and to demonstrate our ability to come from the land Can we also mention Army and can we also mention some people that I really got to know and respect even more in Texas What a job the Coast Guard has done throughout this thing What a job the Coast Guard has done throughout this whole — [inaudible] They would go right into the middle of it A lot of people got to see the real Coast Guard in this trouble We would like to say something on behalf of your men and women UNIDENTIFIED: I’m representing the Air Force UNIDENTIFIED: We have the team effort for FEMA and also the US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico specifically and trying to open up the airfields that begin as they get the majority of the supplies in and setting up across the island with the numbers We have four major runways that are operational and about 700-plus strategic stories on the island of Puerto Rico to provide the license to them we are ordering hundreds of millions of dollars of new airplanes for the Air Force So it’s hard to fight a plane you can’t see TRUMP: But that’s an expensive plane you can’t see something that other administrations would never have done Who can speak on behalf of the Coast Guard UNIDENTIFIED: I don’t think there is anything that the men and women would rather do than help the people of Puerto Rico this is what we get to do on a daily basis Getting to help our fellow citizens is what our duty is all about it came in and did devastation and went out into the coast It came in three times and would lot up and come in The Coast Guard in Texas saved 16,000 lives and there are not too many people who would have done it Understand the world with a daily explainer plus the most compelling stories of the day Auto workers supported tariffs to protect their jobs The most surprising consequence of Trump’s trade war Today, Explained podcastMay 4Love on the Spectrum stars call on RFK Jr. to resignTwo cast members of the hit Netflix reality TV show on what the HHS secretary misunderstands about autism The Gray AreaMay 3Did our politics fail us during Covid?Political scientist Frances Lee examines the “noble lies” and truth-seeking failures of the pandemic. 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The discovery of a fossil horse tooth in Haiti has given surprising credence to the idea the horses escaped from a Spanish shipwreck off Virginia around 1750.  after which the equines are sold at auction to keep the population in check Local lore claims the ponies are descended from horses that swam ashore following the sinking of a Spanish galleon off the Virginia coast sometime around 1750 Importantly, both the Caribbean horse and Chincoteague ponies share an evolutionary lineage that originated in Bronze Age Spain, says study co-author Nicolas Delsol a zooarchaeologist at the University of Florida Del Sol came across a 450-year-old shard of horse tooth molar that archaeologists had collected in the 1980s in northern Haiti at the site of an early Spanish colony called Puerto Real had sat forgotten in the university’s museum collections for decades University of Florida archaeologists found this horse molar fragment from the 16th-century Spanish ruins of Puerto Real Florida Museum of Natural History“It was a serendipitous find,” he said but stumbled across this incredible piece of horse data.” which are now a treasure trove of information for archaeologists Because horses were prized status symbols at the time, however, they were rarely butchered, making them rare in the fossil record Of the 127,000 Puerto Real animal specimens housed at the university’s Florida Museum of Natural History but in the vicinity of where Puerto Real’s church once stood After freezing and pulverizing a sample of the tooth Delsol and his colleagues processed the powder and sent it off to a lab for sequencing Although they had tempered expectations—ancient DNA often degrades in muggy tropical conditions— the horse’s tooth yielded a remarkable amount of genetic information That revealed the Puerto Real horse’s closest relative was the Chincoteague pony “I had never heard of Chincoteague,” Delsol says “And then I read this interesting anecdote about a Spanish shipwreck.” Although native to North America, the wild horse species that gave rise to domestic horses, Equus ferus, was not present on the continent for most of the past 10,000 years, after disappearing at the close of the last ice age. when European explorers began colonizing the Caribbean in the late 15th century they unwittingly reintroduced domestic horses horses quickly spread across the continent where their ancestors had once run wild such as these animals photographed in the early 2000s Nat Geo Image CollectionThis hostile environment is also why people are so intrigued how ponies got there notably put forth in Misty of Chincoteague Emily Jones an archaeologist at the University of New Mexico who studies how the arrival of horses impacted western ecosystems believes the new finding illustrates how zooarchaeological remains can fill in blanks in the historical record “The feral population on Chincoteague highlights the idea that the spread of horses is not something where we can rely on European documents to tell us the history,” says Jones, who was not involved in the new study. (Read about wild horses and their shrinking population in the American West.) Delsol believes this tooth fragment has an even greater story to tell: It hints that Spanish settlers were sailing further north into the mid-Atlantic region when their ship sank. While historical records of these explorations are scant, the information preserved in the colonial tooth may help connect the dots.  “It’s more than just a horse story,” Delsol says. Spain-based Nervión Industries has completed the manufacturing and assembly of all the 20 upper jackets for the Moray East offshore wind farm which Navantia is delivering from its Puerto Real shipyard to Smulders The company said that within a turnkey contract it had carried out the complete manufacture of the structures over the last 14 months it completed the project on time despite delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions and other uncontrollable problems encountered during executing the project At the beginning of October, Smulders dispatched the final three upper jackets for the Moray East project that were fabricated at its yard in Hoboken where the complete foundations are being assembled The Belgian manufacturer is in charge of delivering 55 turbine jacket foundations for Moray East which are fabricated in two sections: upper and lower with 35 upper sections made in Belgium and 20 in Spain The 55 lower sections are manufactured in Newcastle where they are prepared for installation at the project site It is anticipated that jacket transport from Newcastle will continue until the end of the year when all are expected to have been fabricated and delivered For the 100-turbine Moray East offshore wind farm the remaining 45 jacket foundations have been delivered by Lamprell from its yards in the United Arab Emirates Lamprell loaded its last batch of jacket foundations for Moray East onto a heavy lift vessel in Dubai The Pioneers of Offshore Engineering GustoMSC part of NOV’s Marine and Construction business is recognized for providing advanced design & engineering consultancy for mobile offshore units and reliable equipment and technical knowledge into realistic & innovative ideas The performance of new and existing jack-ups On October 1, 2009, it was reported by Energias Renovables that the latest generation amorphous silicon thin-film photovoltaic module factory in Puerto Real (Cádiz) had been inaugurated The Gadir Solar plant received an investment of more than €150 million In 2011 its activity ceased and the 196 workers began to negotiate their dismissal a few months later Gadir Solar was born out of the need to lower the costs of photovoltaics and started the production of thin-film modules of silicon amofo but in mid-2011 the company began the complete liquidation of the workforce and a long process of liquidation which is now concluding the Insolvency Administration has tried unsuccessfully to sell the productive unit the Insolvency Administration and Surus Reverse assets will try to auction off the production unit on the web at escrapalia.com The auction is open to bids from October 13 until November 6 That day the sale of the production unit or the sale of the production line by lots will proceed on the same day the liquidation is planned by complete lot or by individual lots The auction of Gadir Solar is considered the last of the old solar panel factories established before the crisis For More Information: Escrapalia that aid thus far had been inadequate and begging for more help So it is perhaps unsurprising that Trump’s choreographed effort to signal his empathy for the people of Puerto Rico was a Category 5 train wreck Trump couldn’t help but comment on how much Puerto Ricans who have been without electricity and water for days and Mick is charge of a little thing called budget but you’ve thrown our budget a little out of whack,” Trump said in what “Because we’ve spent a lot of money on Puerto Rico.” and will only become clear as the disaster recovery effort progresses This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from the president tossed a roll of paper towels into the crowd like he was at a sporting event where they shoot tee-shirts into the stands with air cannons This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from Elsewhere, Trump veered into characteristic displays of stream-of-consciousness thinking lurching from comments about the cost of the recovery to a feverish riff on the military’s new F-35 fighter jet This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. In Puerto Rico, Brandi accuses Lisa of betraying Mauricio and Kyle. We're going to need some more coconut rum punch. this is what’s considered a “non-apology,” usually the purview of Ramona Singer (though many others on the network could lay equal claim) See “I’m sorry if your feelings were hurt,” a Housewives classic but you’ve thrown our budget a little out of whack.” Saying something terrible and disguising it as a “joke” is well-trod Housewife territory See any and all comments about Luann de Lessep’s wedding an infamous attempt to get someone “naked wasted” on The Real Housewives of Orange County but especially not during an ongoing crisis in which 47 percent of people are still in need of clean drinking water—and yet Trump managed to ask it today of Puerto Rican officials as he compared the casualties suffered there to Hurricane Katrina (the latter being what he called a “real catastrophe”) The level of unawareness in the question is parodic thus Housewife-ian; consider “Did you use a ghostwriter?” (New York) or “Do you have Munchausen syndrome?’ (Beverly Hills) Last week, Trump used Twitter to call out a group of Puerto Rican officials who he saw fit to praise in the midst of their disaster response, notably leaving out Mayor Cruz. In a common if overused Housewife tactic, Trump’s attempt to leave out the mayor echo several attempts by Housewives to leave costars out of trips, parties, charity events, game nights, music video shoots, magazine rollouts, book launches . . . the list goes on. the old organisation was split into two with the Airbus facilities becoming 100%-owned by Airbus under the Airbus España banner comprising the military and overhaul businesses which is the larger of the two old CASA divisions Airbus España’s “more than 3,000 employees” represent around 5% of Airbus’s total headcount and work at three plants – Getafe near Madrid Illescas (located near Toledo and around 30km [18 miles] from Getafe) and Puerto Real on the south coast near the port of Cadiz The Airbus España and EADS Casa businesses operate side-by-side at several of the plants The Airbus division’s main activities are engineering (both design and processes); development manufacturing and assembly of composite structures (it is an Airbus centre of excellence in advanced composites); and design and manufacturing of tooling The division produces 4.2% of all production Airbus aircraft except the A380 but is expected to be “slightly less” than the A380 The division’s main responsibility is the production and assembly of horizontal stabilisers – called horizontal tail planes (HTP) by Airbus – for all Airbus aircraft Other non-A380 work packages include forward passenger doors (A300/A310 and A330/A340) landing gear doors (A300/A310 and A320) and fuselage Section 18 for the A320 the expanded workshare sees it build the HTP the entire rear fuselage (Section 19 and 19.1) main landing gear doors (wing and body) and some composite wing ribs which is the division’s headquarters and undertakes final assembly of HTPs for all the Airbus models (except the A380) and also assembles the A380’s Section 19/19/1 rear fuselage Getafe’s EADS Casa facilities includes the Spanish Eurofighter Typhoon assembly line and military overhaul businesses While the A380’s rear fuselage can be squeezed into an Airbus Beluga for transport from Getafe to Hamburg the size of the A380’s HTP necessitates surface shipment For this reason the HTPs are assembled at Puerto Real and can be transferred via Cadiz by ship/barge and truck to the Toulouse final assembly line HTP lateral boxes assembled by the Puerto Real plant and trucked to the HTP assembly line in Getafe with Getafe producing the lateral boxes which are then trucked to Puerto Real for final assembly Puerto Real also assembles the rudder and belly fairing that are transferred by ship Much of the material used on the Getafe and Puerto Real assembly lines originates from the Illescas plant This is Airbus España’s advanced composites centre claiming to account for 10% of the worldwide consumption of composites and a supplier to other part of the old CASA “A key decision taken when EADS was created was that for Spain one division must give support to another,” says Airbus España general manager Manuel Hita “So parts are produced for the other divisions for example the carbonfibre skin for the Eurofighter’s right wing is produced in Illescas.” with growth being driven partly because of its increased workshare on the A380 and partly due to output increases on the existing programmes “We’ve grown in parallel with the growth of Airbus,” says Hita He acknowledges that the country’s relatively lower wage rates makes the division a lower cost business than other parts of Airbus there was some controversy ahead of the Spanish general elections when the government threatened to withhold part of its development funding for the A380 as it believed that the country’s industry had not secured sufficient workshare The then science and technology minister said that while the objective was to have a 10% share Airbus España is reluctant to discuss if and how this issue was resolved Although Hita says “the support of the Spain’s governments – federal regional and local – has been a great benefit to Airbus” He adds that because the company’s policy has always been to outsource locally “the Spanish aerospace network has grown simultaneously with us We employ 3,000 people and a similar magnitude of people is employed by Spanish suppliers on Airbus work outside this division Practically all the manual processes are subcontracted to the first and second tier suppliers.” Hita also says that the Airbus programmes enables Spain’s aerospace suppliers expand on a global scale particularly those working in the composites area The US Air Force is looking for new options for air-to-air missiles The California company Stratolaunch is pioneering the development of a reusable flight vehicle capable of reaching speeds beyond Mach 5 Ten of the Boeing refuellers have been listed for sale on a US government auction website FlightGlobal is the global aviation community’s primary source of news analytics and advisory services to connect the aviation community globally and help organisations shape their business strategies identify new opportunities and make better decisions faster Site powered by Webvision Cloud member-first insights and commentary on the global aviation industry And in Andalucía's Bay of Cadiz it even has a name is the only company in Spain with a licence in aqua tourism In the heart of the Bahía de Cádiz Natural Park you can enjoy seeing all the flora and fauna visit the traditional farming of Gillardeau oysters Estero Natural grew as a family business operating in the Belén de Levante and Poniente salt-pans Their main business is aquaculture (the breeding shellfish and more in a water-based environment) but without neglecting a sustainable tourism offering too Salvador Algarín passed on his passion to his sons and they convinced some friends who were also biologists to join them The team specialised in the breeding and export of Gillardeau oysters (often just known in Spain as 'French oysters' although Gillardeau is just one variety of oyster farmed in France) The latest to join the project team is Eugenio Belgrano This entrepreneur from Cadiz knows better than anyone that tourism is a great invention for this area and has joined this team made up of great professionals and lovers of marine fauna and flora "This year we obtained the first and only aqua tourism licence in Spain which allows us to practise tourism in the estuaries He goes on to explain: "We are now preparing everything to bring the two activities together: aquaculture and tourism We have been organising small events for a while but now we are improving the facilities to create an experience that can really bring the visitor 100% in touch with this wonderful environment" that makes more than a dozen pairs of hands an economist and Belgrano himself on the tourism side) Eugenio Belgrano acts as spokesperson for the company while acknowledging "the great work" of all involved The Cadiz native explains the project to this newspaper in the very heart of these wetlands "I have many business interests and I've been involved in around 1,000 projects but this is one of the ones I've fallen in love with the most" Eugenio Belgrano confesses from the bottom of his heart they wanted to witness a 'despesque' [traditional fishing with nets in the estuaries] We held the event in a little house on the estuary The day before they had been to Doñana and they told me that they saw things here that they hadn't seen there who is always coming up with new initiatives on the horizon "The truth is that I often take people to Doñana and five minutes from Cadiz you find a spectacular biodiversity and ecosystem It is one of the places where you can see the most species of birds" hardly stopping to draw breath before jumping to the next topic. My biology team-mates are in charge of the fieldwork The place needs improvements and we are working on that But the potential is enormous: even a wedding has been held here The sunset photos couldn't be more beautiful making all the sluice gates of the estuaries fully operative a task that is very important to keep the water coming in to keep it flowing through all the channels we have "The activities will focus on schools and groups of tourists in general: workshops to identify tracks left by wildlife The fish are not fed with just a feed or anything artificial they feed on the same biodiversity that exists in the estuary on the shrimps and molluscs and nutrients within these estuary waters: it is a perfect ecosystem regulating the floodgates and the water levels: we let them in so they can eat from here "The aim is to organise days out to delight the senses You can enjoy a great day with magnificent activities: a walk through the estuaries "The activities consist of taking people to see the estuary to observe the different birds that live in the area After the fishing demo is done with trammel nets they can see the invasive species such as the blue crab "And then there is the most important thing what everyone comes for," Belgrano says: the experience of tasting these natural products the fish I like the most is mullet: it's a real delicacy The biologists encouraged me and I owe them one It is different from the mojonera [another type of smooth fish] we know in Cadiz There is a small beach for bathing and getting muddy a viewpoint with binoculars for visitor use.. "In springtime the birds come to roost and we can observe them" "Here you have a unique experience: from how the fish is caught what you eat here is done as it was done in the marshes in the old days: making a circle with the plants setting up the fire to die down to the embers the fish being placed on the cooking slab - a gilthead bream And from the sea to the fire and from the fire to the table" boats entering the marshlands and there will be excursions We don't really know just how much we have here..." using his finger to write those three dots to underline how infinitely wonderful this place truly is Comentar es una ventaja exclusiva para registrados There are more and more restaurants specialising in hamburgers So many that it is difficult to know which ones cook a burger really worth trying the fourth annual Spanish Burger Championship a competition organised by Best Burger Spain as well as choosing the best in the country has selected the most outstanding burger in Andalucía The top honour in Andalucía went to the Mike Burger The delicious dish rated as the best in the region is made at Golden Grill Wild Wild Burger which has two restaurants in Puerto Real (Cadiz) and Cadiz city This is the result of the work we have been doing for several years," Antonio Girón Antonio said they decided to opt for "the simplest" and use the product to "make a difference" "We use zero-kilometre meat from a livestock farm in Puerta Real We use our own recipe for the bread and we offer a simple One of the secrets is in the technique they use we like the meat to be very airy and to melt in your mouth," Antonio said they have not stopped receiving new customers in their restaurants who want to try the Mike Burger the phone is ringing off the hook and the burger bar is packed every day," Antonio said As to whether the Golden Grill Wild Wild Burger will remain on the menu He also said they will be back in the competition to contend next year: "We want to repeat this success and we will fight to be the best in Spain" Salinas de Janubio have launched a new wine “Real Puerto Janubio” in collaboration with Bodegas La Geria The wine is named in tribute to the rich history of Lanzarote and the old “Real Puerto Janubio” that was lost to volcanic eruptions and “whose history we still feel in the heart of the Salinas.” Real Puerto Janubio’s label features a map of Lanzarote from 1751 showing areas of the island that were lost to the Timanfaya eruptions between 1730 and 1736 “it promises to be a unique experience for wine lovers who appreciate the depth of its origin and the quality of its production,” stated company director Carlos Padrón The wine will be for sale soon. For more updates follow their social media Jet2 is expanding its winter 25/26 programme with more flights to 13 popular destinations (including Lanzarote & Fuerteventura) from Manchester Airport & London Stansted Fire fighters were called to put out a minibus engine fire yesterday morning Lanzarote Pool & Spa Shop in Playa Blanca are currently looking for an Office Administrator & Customer Service Representative A head-on collision between two vehicles on the LZ-1 near Mala yesterday evening saw three people injured Six local derbies will take place next season as three Lanzarote teams take part in Group 12 of the Third RFEF league We are using cookies to give you the best experience on our website You can find out more about which cookies we are using or switch them off in settings Sign-up to the Gazette Newsletter to receive a weekly email including the most important news stories and upcoming events This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful Strictly necessary cookies should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings we will not be able to save your preferences This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again La Hermandad de la Vera Cruz de Puerto Real y la Hermandad de la Entrega de Guadalcacín han llegado a un acuerdo por el que la cofradía que preside Francisco Alcedo Rubio cederá el paso de palio de Nuestra Señora de la Amargura para que la bendita imagen de María Santísima Reina de los Ángeles procesione el próximo 12 de octubre en la Magna Mariana que se celebrará en Jerez Según exponen ambas corporaciones en un comunicado conjunto los traslados de los enseres y del propio paso de palio los realizarán empresas especializadas la cofradía guadalcacileña se compromete a suscribir un seguro que cubra cualquier contingencia la junta de gobierno de la cofradía puertorrealeña realizará un seguimiento de todos los movimientos que se hagan y llevará el control del montaje y desmontaje de dicho paso El paso de palio de Nuestra Señora de la Amargura fue adquirido por la Hermandad de la Vera Cruz de Puerto Real a la Hermandad de la Exaltación de nuestra ciudad destacando los respiraderos de estilo neogótico que originariamente pertenecieron a la Hermandad de San Esteban de Sevilla y por los que la cofradía puertorrealeña pagó 125.000 pesetas a la corporación jerezana es obra de Manuel de los Ríos (Orfebrería Andaluza) El techo de palio y las bambalinas se realizaron en los talleres de bordado de la propia Hermandad que para su ejecución contó con la colaboración de la Asociación de Labores «Minerva» Tu dirección de correo electrónico no será publicada Los campos obligatorios están marcados con *