From: ez000281@hamlet.ucdavis.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
Subject: Re: Puerto Rico News Update 1/3/93
Date: 5 Jan 93 17:28:11 GMT
Organization: Computing Services, UC Davis

nyxfer!nicanet (NicaNet NY) Via NY Transfer News Collective write:

>PUERTO RICO NEWS

[...]

>Following a federal investigation, Puerto Rico's Electrical Energy
>Authority (AEE) has received a $30 million fine from the US
>Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for serious violations of
>environmental law. Anonymous sources cited by reporters indicate
>that the AEE and the US Department of Justice are negotiating the
>pollution situation and the payment of the fine. 

This proves that the Federal Government is the enforcer of pollution controls 
on the island, and if PR would be independent, the new patriots which now get 
3% of the vote would turn the island into a latrine, a la northern Mexico.

>New Puerto Rico governor Pedro Rossello is continuing to fill
>positions for his new administration; he has named Hector M.
>Pesquera as the first Puerto Rican ever to head the FBI in Puerto
>Rico, 

Rossello cannot name the head of the FBI in Puerto Rico, he can only 
recommend, but this postion is one (fortunately) determined by the Federal 
Government. 

>and is said to be considering naming FBI agent Pedro Toledo
>to head the national police. Toledo would be the first federal
>agent to head Puerto Rico's police. 

Rosello has already named Toledo as Police Chief and the FBI gave him a 4 year 
leave of abscence.  Toledo is a Puerto Rican with an excellent record within 
the Bureau.  In fact he was the one who negotiated a peaceful solution to the 
Alanta prison riots in which some marielitos were willing to die in prison 
before going back to Cuba.  Its precisely the person we need to control crime 
on the island.  Who ever said Puerto Ricans could'nt control their own destiny?

An even better and more recent news:

Governor elect (with 53% of the vote) and stathood leader Rosello, was 
inaugurated and gave a speech complaining about those who were always whining 
and stating that "this can't be done", leaving the island in a state of 
lethargy.  He eliminated the "ley de la mordaza" order all public agencies not 
to withold documentation from the public (a technique used by the corrupt 
government party to extract kickbacks from developers), and even better yet, 
his first piece of legislation submitted to the legislature controlled by his 
party is a law which reverses the Spanish Only law approved a couple of years 
ago.  The derogation of Spanish Only and the return to official bilingualism 
(Spanish-English) was a campaing promise which is sure to be approved into law 
in the coming months.  It is also a slap in the face to the Spanish government 
who was attempting to interfere in Puerto Rican politics by endorsing 
nationalistic measure such as the Spanish Only Law.  The Spanish Royalty gave 
the "People of Puerto Rico" the "Premio Principe de Asturias" for having 
approved a law banning all languages other than Spanish from government 
offices.  With mandate of the Puerto Rican people, the law will now be 
derrogated and the prize becomes a slap in the face of those who wish to erase 
the historic links between our people and those of the other ethnicities in the 
mainland U.S.  Our population will continue to learn English and Spanish and 
become competitve within the U.S. job market, and serve as a bridge between two 
cultures, in spite of the attempts from Spanish purists, and their Latin 
Amercan cultural elitists.

Edelmiro
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
From: Ashley@chaz.demon.co.uk (Charles Ashley)