Puerto Rico State News

Argentina soccer game moved from Chicago due to Trump’s immigration crackdown

Wed, 08 Oct 2025 20:50:24 +0000

Friendly against Puerto Rico moved to Fort Lauderdale
Game will now take place at Chase Stadium

A soccer match between Argentina and Puerto Rico, originally scheduled for next week in Chicago, has been relocated to Florida amid the immigration crackdown in the city, a person familiar with the decision told the Associated Press on Wednesday.

The friendly match was supposed to be played on 13 October at Soldier Field in Chicago but will be moved to Chase Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, the home stadium of Argentina and Inter Miami star Lionel Messi.

Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird review – Mars Volta bromance looks for time out

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 06:00:03 +0000

Exhaustive documentary tracking the sweet fraternity between Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedric Bixler-Zavala goes a little sour

Love, apparently, is going through a Scientology initiation ceremony. That’s what At the Drive-In and Mars Volta guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López finally agrees to in order to convince singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala to work with him once again – even though it was the latter who asked to reconcile after dissolving the second of these outfits in 2012. Nicolas Jack Davies’s wearing documentary charts this intense friendship and creative collaboration from their early days as afro-haired Puerto Rican dervishes on the largely white 1990s Texan punk scene, through the vicissitudes of their numerous musical outlets.

“If this ever gets weird” is their day-one promise to each other: that they will dissolve whatever band they are working on if it threatens their relationship. It has definitely got weird by the time a frazzled Bixler-Zavala jealously criticises his running buddy’s side projects on social media. And then later, suspecting Rodríguez-López of being a “suppressive person” (to use the lingo of the Church), he forces him to get his thetans checked. At this point, the pair have already weathered two cycles of exhilaration and disillusionment with their two main groups – as well as the fatal overdose of Mars Volta creative galvaniser Jeremy Ward.

Una jueza dictamina que Trump incumplió la ley al destituir a los miembros de la Junta de Supervisión de Puerto Rico

Sat, 04 Oct 2025 19:43:38 +0000

La jueza María Antongiorgi-Jordán, del Tribunal Federal de Distrito de San Juan, consideró que la Casa Blanca incumplió una ley de 2016 por la que se creó la junta de siete miembros.

Judge Says Trump Wrongly Removed Puerto Rico Oversight Board Members

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 22:13:09 +0000

A federal judge found that the president failed to comply with a law Congress passed in 2016 to restructure the debt of the bankrupt government.

Seeing Puerto Rico Through Comic Books

Thu, 02 Oct 2025 14:47:55 +0000

Marvel’s White Tiger, frog sorcery, Indigenous tales and more are in “¡Wepa!,” coming to New York Public Library, spotlighting work by or about the island.

Trump Is Pulling the Plug on Puerto Rico’s Economy

Fri, 26 Sep 2025 23:09:12 +0000

The purge of Puerto Rico’s oversight board could devastate the island’s economy.

Trump está condenando la economía de Puerto Rico

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 16:48:38 +0000

El despido de 6 de los 7 miembros de la junta de supervisión financiera de Puerto Rico podría devastar la economía de la isla.

The pill, Puerto Rico and the patriarchal medical system | Letters

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 16:15:14 +0000

Rebecca Siddall responds to an article on attitudes to the contraceptive pill and reflects on medical misogyny

Your article on contraception misinformation does not consider the long history of medical misogyny (Online misinformation putting women off contraceptive pill, study finds, 13 September). I am a PhD researcher studying the cultural discourse on contraception. I’m also a young woman within the age range and online culture that you talk about, and within my work I explore this space critically.

Effectively, it is wrong to assume a value-neutral background when researching attitudes to contraception, a medical technology that is only available to us now through historical injustices enacted upon women, especially women of colour.

Postcard Sent From the U.N. Is Returned to Sender After 72 Years

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 19:41:21 +0000

Alan Ball sent the postcard to his family during the summer of 1953. Last week, it arrived at his home in Idaho.

Unusual Climate Case Accusing Oil Giants of Racketeering Is Dismissed

Fri, 12 Sep 2025 19:45:23 +0000

Citing laws more commonly used against organized crime, the lawsuit argued that fossil fuel companies were responsible for devastating hurricane damage in Puerto Rico.

La casita de Bad Bunny, punto de reunión de los famosos, expone un legado

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 08:07:57 +0000

Lebron James, Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Austin Butler, Mbappé, Belinda, Ricky Martin y muchas estrellas más se unieron a la fiesta de Bad Bunny en una casa tradicional de Puerto Rico construida al medio de un coliseo.

Bad Bunny says he left US out of world tour due to fear of Ice raids at concerts

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 03:45:14 +0000

Puerto Rican rapper says he and his team were ‘very concerned’ that Ice agents might target his performances

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Bad Bunny says he excluded the US from his forthcoming world tour due to fears that, as a prominent Latino musician, his fans would be subjected to immigration raids.

In an interview with i-D magazine on Wednesday, the three-time Grammy-winning musician was asked whether he was skipping the US “out of concern about the [mass deportations of] Latinos”.

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Cruise Ship Passenger With $16,000 Gambling Debt Jumps Overboard

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 19:43:42 +0000

The man, who was rescued, told authorities he was trying to avoid declaring money in his possession, but Royal Caribbean said he also had casino and gaming losses.

Bad Bunny’s Casita, a Summer Hub for Celebrities, Carries a Legacy

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 17:51:57 +0000

A traditional home built in the arena at Bad Bunny’s residency has welcomed dozens of guests, one of whom said it “feels like a Christmas party in a house.”

The Guardian view on the ‘war on drugs’: Donald Trump is turning a failed metaphor into a more dangerous reality | Editorial

Sun, 07 Sep 2025 17:30:26 +0000

The strike on a speedboat allegedly containing Venezuelan drug traffickers may be performative, but sets a frightening precedent

More than five decades ago, Richard Nixon launched a “war on drugs”. The drugs won. Now Donald Trump is turning a failed metaphor into a worse reality.

On Tuesday the US president claimed that the military had killed 11 drug traffickers from Venezuela, posting footage of the strike that US officials said took place on a speedboat in international waters in the Caribbean. The administration supplied no evidence for its claim that the boat contained Tren de Aragua members, or drugs, and gave varying accounts of its destination. It also warned that there was more to come, with the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, arguing that intercepting boats had not curbed the drugs problem: “What will stop them is when you blow them up.” Earlier this year, Mr Trump secretly ordered the use of military force against cartels internationally.

Trump sends 10 stealth fighter planes to Puerto Rico amid war on Caribbean drug cartels

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 17:11:58 +0000

Move comes after US accuses Venezuela of buzzing warship and a deadly US missile strike in Caribbean Sea

Donald Trump is sending 10 F-35 fighter jets to Puerto Rico to bolster US military operations against drug cartels in the Caribbean region, it was reported on Friday.

If follows a deadly US missile strike on Tuesday on a boat in the Caribbean Sea that the Trump administration insisted was carrying 11 Venezuelan drug traffickers, and comments by the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, on Wednesday that such attacks “will happen again”.

Hurricane Erin knocks out power lines in Puerto Rico before heading north

Mon, 18 Aug 2025 12:17:45 +0000

Most of more than 147,000 customers affected reconnected by Monday as category 4 storm not forecast to make landfall

Hurricane Erin’s outer bands pelted the US territory of Puerto Rico with heavy rains and tropical-storm winds during the day on Sunday, knocking out power to tens of thousands of customers, according to officials.

At one point, more than 147,000 utility customers were without power in Puerto Rico, according to Luma Energy, a private company that oversees the transmission and distribution of power on the island. By 5.30am on Monday, 96.3% of customers had electric service, with most who were affected by outages being concentrated in the Caguas, Mayagüez and San Juan regions, Luma said on X.

Hurricane Erin weakens to category 3 as storm lashes Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands

Sun, 17 Aug 2025 15:34:27 +0000

First Atlantic hurricane of 2025 diminishes but tropical storm warnings issued for Turks and Caicos

Hurricane Erin was downgraded to a category 3 hurricane early Sunday as its outer bands continued to lash the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico with heavy rains and tropical-storm force winds.

While Erin’s maximum winds diminished, the storm’s overall size grew and forecasters issued tropical storm warnings for the Turks and Caicos Islands and a watch for the south-east Bahamas.

Hurricane Erin intensifies to category 5, moving through north-east Caribbean

Sat, 16 Aug 2025 16:11:15 +0000

Erin not expected to make landfall, though nearby islands, including Puerto Rico, brace for flooding

Hurricane Erin has intensified into a category 5 storm as it churns its way over the Atlantic, brushing past islands in the north-east Caribbean.

The National Hurricane Center (NHC), in Miami, said on Saturday that Erin – which it described as “catastrophic” – was still not expected to hit land in the US and would swerve away, but forecasters have warned that strong winds and heavy rain could cause flooding and landslides on nearby islands.

Tropical storm turns into Hurricane Erin as it approaches Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands

Fri, 15 Aug 2025 18:43:41 +0000

Hurricane is predicted pick up steam toward Florida before veering away from the US mainland

A tropical storm sped up to become Hurricane Erin mid-morning on Friday, as it approached Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, bringing heavy rains that could cause flooding and landslides on its way to becoming a major Atlantic hurricane.

The huge storm was swirling across the Caribbean and is ultimately expected to head towards Florida, picking up speed over warm ocean water, before ultimately veering away from the US mainland.

Bad Bunny’s Puerto Rico residency is a rare example of fame used for good | Adrian Horton

Thu, 07 Aug 2025 16:57:03 +0000

The megastar’s unprecedented 21-date residency is estimated to bring $200m into the local economy with early tickets exclusively reserved for locals

Earlier this month, a wave of tourists from the continental US began visiting Puerto Rico for the chance to see Bad Bunny. This would not be that remarkable – plenty of people go overseas for concerts, as tickets often go for much less than in the US (any dedicated Swiftie will tell you it was much cheaper to see her in Mexico City than, say, LA) – if not for the fact that Bad Bunny, born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, planned ahead for an influx of outsiders to the island. The first nine dates of his landmark 30-show residency at San Juan’s Coliseo de Puerto Rico were reserved exclusively for island residents, who had to present proof of residency at one of nine locations, primarily agricultural markets. Only afterward could anyone from the outside attend the Puerto Rican superstar’s show, No Me Quiero Ir de Aquí (I Don’t Want to Leave Here), a three-hour magnum opus of Boricua pride in support of his new album Debí Tirar Más Fotos (I Should Have Taken More Pictures).

In the nearly 10 years since Bad Bunny broke containment on Soundcloud, he has made defiance of norms and expectations a personal rule. From donning drag in the Yo Perreo Sola video, to seamlessly blending genres old and new, to his refusal to sing or conduct press in English – even his appearances on Saturday Night Live, one of several forays into English media, kept Spanish as the default – Martínez has thrillingly redefined what it looks like to be a global superstar. His residency in San Juan, the triumphant opening salvo of a world tour that will entirely skip the mainland US, is not just the latest bucked model but, I’d argue, the best use of megastardom in recent memory, an application of generational celebrity that unites potent symbolism with actual material change.

Explosive and experimental, Eddie Palmieri was a revolutionary figure in postwar American music

Thu, 07 Aug 2025 09:28:37 +0000

The Puerto Rican New Yorker pianist, who has died aged 88, radiated pure joy as he played – never resting on his laurels as he went from jazz to salsa to house and beyond

• Eddie Palmieri, pioneering Latin jazz musician and Grammy winner, dies aged 88

Some 20 years ago I watched as Eddie Palmieri approached his piano, noting how his features radiated a mix of joy and excitement. As soon as he began to play I grasped why. To say the great Puerto Rican New Yorker was a thrilling performer is an understatement: seated at the piano he threw himself into playing explosive Latin jazz, his rhythmic attack reminding me how his first job as a professional musician was playing timbales in his uncle’s band aged 13. This sense of joy, the excitement he found in making music, the chances he took, helped shape Eddie Palmieri’s long, brilliant career.

To my mind, Palmieri was one of the truly revolutionary figures of postwar American music, up there with Muddy and Miles and Aretha and Dolly: a musician who reshaped a genre and extended the music’s possibilities. “El Maestro” is how his fans and fellow musicians referred to Eddie, and this human hurricane, built like a fire hydrant with the brightest smile and a mischievous twinkle in his eye, never disappointed.

Xander Zayas outboxes Jorge Garcia to become boxing’s youngest active world champion

Sun, 27 Jul 2025 06:17:48 +0000

Zayas wins WBO junior middleweight title at age 22
Beats Jorge Garcia Perez by unanimous decision
Puerto Rican star fulfills childhood dream at MSG

Xander Zayas’s coronation is complete. The 22-year-old who has long been put forth as Puerto Rico’s next boxing star became the sport’s youngest active world champion on Saturday night, defeating Mexico’s Jorge García Pérez by a comfortable 12-round unanimous decision to claim the vacant WBO junior middleweight title.

The stakes couldn’t have been clearer for Zayas, a prodigy who turned professional at 17 and has since plotted a measured ascent through the ranks. With the clearcut victory before a rollicking crowd of several thousand at the Theater at Madison Square Garden, Zayas made good on years of promise while penning another chapter into the storied Puerto Rico–Mexico rivalry.

Puerto Rico’s solar-powered village – in pictures

Mon, 30 Jun 2025 14:00:44 +0000

For years, Puerto Ricans have faced high electricity costs and regular blackouts. The town of Adjuntas, in the central mountains, boasts the island’s first community-owned solar microgrid

Ex-NBA star DeMarcus Cousins ejected after ugly fracas with fans in Puerto Rico

Tue, 10 Jun 2025 15:14:45 +0000

Cousins ejected after slapping at fan during timeout
Crowd hurled drinks as Cousins exited in shouting match
BSN reviewing incident; future with Guaynabo unclear

DeMarcus Cousins was ejected from a game in Puerto Rico on Monday night after a heated confrontation with a courtside fan and a hostile exit that nearly escalated into chaos.

The 34-year-old former NBA All-Star and Olympic gold medalist, now playing for Mets de Guaynabo in the Baloncesto Superior Nacional (BSN), got into a verbal altercation with a fan during a timeout in the fourth quarter.

‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects

Tue, 03 Jun 2025 07:00:25 +0000

A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides

Daniel Janzen only began watching the insects – truly watching them – when his ribcage was shattered. Nearly half a century ago, the young ecologist had been out documenting fruit crops in a dense stretch of Costa Rican forest when he fell in a ravine, landing on his back. The long lens of his camera punched up through three ribs, snapping the bones into his thorax.

Slowly, he dragged himself out, crawling nearly two miles back to the research hut. There were no immediate neighbours, no good roads, no simple solutions for getting to a hospital.

Puerto Rico drops climate lawsuit after DoJ sues states to block threats to big oil

Fri, 02 May 2025 20:43:56 +0000

Territory’s voluntary move comes as Trump administration makes good on pledge to end lawsuits against oil and gas

Puerto Rico has voluntarily dismissed its 2024 climate lawsuit against big oil, a Friday legal filing shows, just two days after the US justice department sued two states over planned litigation against oil companies for their role in the climate crisis.

Puerto Rico’s lawsuit, filed in July, alleged that the oil and gas giants had misled the public about the climate dangers associated with their products. It came as part of a wave of litigation filed by dozens of US states, cities and municipalities in recent years.

A moment that changed me: I went into the wilderness with my family – and lost my inhibitions

Wed, 30 Apr 2025 10:00:12 +0000

We took a wrong turn on vacation and ended up on a six-hour trek into the rainforest. After my mom flung off her top, my brother was attacked by fire ants and I developed a fiery hot rash, everything began to seem strangely zen …

It was the summer of 2001 and I was on the brink of adolescence, embarking on my first journey outside the continental United States to the tropically convenient American territory of Puerto Rico. I was 11, and already the goofball in my group of friends – but, away from those with whom I was familiar, I was painfully shy. Until a family vacation from hell rid me of all my inhibitions.

The chaos began when my well-intentioned parents decided to take my brother and me to see the beautiful rainforest. My mom had her heart set on going to the El Portal de El Yunque National Forest visitor centre; a friend had told her it was “perfect for kids”, with guided, paved pathways, a cafe, and even a gift shop. But when my flustered, monolingual father got lost on the Puerto Rican freeway, he panicked, as my mother flipped through the map trying to direct him. “What’s a salida?!” he cried, sailing past the “exit” signs.

Power restored to more than half of Puerto Rico after island-wide blackout

Thu, 17 Apr 2025 20:21:29 +0000

Wednesday’s outage the latest in series of blackouts to affect Puerto Rico in wake of Hurricane Maria in 2017

About 58% of Puerto Rico has has had power restored following an island-wide blackout on Wednesday, the government of Puerto Rico federal affairs administration said on Thursday.

It added that current generation stands at 1,439MW. A total of 31 generation units are online, with 16 additional units in the process of being brought back online, it said.

Schools in Puerto Rico are bracing for Trump cuts after gains made during the Biden years

Fri, 28 Mar 2025 14:00:25 +0000

The island, with the seventh-largest school district in the US, is unusually reliant on federal funding

Maraida Caraballo Martínez has been an educator in Puerto Rico for 28 years and the principal of the elementary school Escuela de la Comunidad Jaime C Rodriguez for the past seven. She never knows how much money her school in Yabucoa will receive from the government each year because it isn’t based on the number of children enrolled. One year she got $36,000; another year, it was $12,000.

But during the Biden administration, Caraballo noticed a big change. Due to an infusion of federal dollars into the island’s education system, Caraballo received a $250,000 grant, an unprecedented amount of money. She used it to buy books and computers for the library, whiteboards and printers for classrooms, to beef up a robotics program and build a multipurpose sports court for her students. “It meant a huge difference for the school,” Caraballo said.

Young adults in Puerto Rico are struggling financially. Here's what that means and why some return

Sun, 10 Nov 2024 13:27:00 +0000

More than half of adults ages 18 to 29 in Puerto Rico are financially fragile compared to older generations on the island, and young adults in the U.S.

Trump's closing campaign message is hampered by distractions, disconnect

Sun, 03 Nov 2024 16:14:00 +0000

Donald Trump's campaign has faced backlash for several controversial remarks in the final days of his campaign against Vice President Kamala Harris.

Harris plays cleanup on Biden 'garbage' comment

Wed, 30 Oct 2024 16:39:00 +0000

A racist joke about Puerto Rico that Tony Hinchcliffe told at a rally for Donald Trump is an issue in the Republican's campaign against Kamala Harris.

Trump rally comedian workshopped racist Puerto Rico line at NYC comedy club the night before

Tue, 29 Oct 2024 11:46:00 +0000

The comments have drawn intense anger and reignited the criticism over Trump's handling of Hurricane Maria's devastating aftermath in Puerto Rico.

Harris rejects Tony Hinchcliffe's racist remarks about Puerto Rico at Trump MSG rally as 'nonsense'

Mon, 28 Oct 2024 17:31:00 +0000

Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris said GOP nominee Donald Trump is "fixated on his grievances, on himself and on dividing our country."

My dream was to own a home in Puerto Rico—at 37, I bought an oceanfront condo: Take a look inside

Sat, 31 Aug 2024 12:15:00 +0000

"Financially Lit!" author Jannese Torres shares how she achieved her dream of owning a home in Puerto Rico, where her family is from.

Hurricane Ernesto aims for Bermuda after leaving many in Puerto Rico without power or water

Thu, 15 Aug 2024 11:15:00 +0000

A hurricane warning was in effect for Bermuda, with Ernesto expected to pass near or over the island on Saturday.

Ernesto becomes a hurricane after pummeling northeast Caribbean and knocking out power in the region

Tue, 13 Aug 2024 13:45:00 +0000

Ernesto strengthened into a hurricane on Wednesday, dropped torrential rain on Puerto Rico and threatened to strengthen into a major storm en route to Bermuda.

Puerto Rico After Maria – The Media & The Reality

Sun, 29 Oct 2017 22:18:29 +0000

Puerto Ricans came together to help residents of neighbor islands in the Caribbean who got hit by Hurricane Irma; as we were still lending a hand, Puerto Rico had a few days to prepare for the most devastating hurricane in a century. It’s been a month now since Maria hit, most likely you will not […]

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Tourism in Puerto Rico After Hurricane Maria – A Month After

Wed, 18 Oct 2017 21:22:32 +0000

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