Word: colonizers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first of the visits next week, current Gov. Rafael Hernandez-Colon will make the case that Puerto Rico should retain its current status as an American commonwealth, according to members of La Organizacion, the student group sponsoring the event...
Hernandez-Colon will be followed by former Gov. Carlos Romero Barcelo, a strong advocate of statehood, and Ruben Berrios Martinez, president of the Puerto Rican Independence Party...
Like much of the U.S. mainland, Puerto Rico is strapped for funds that it sorely needs to overhaul its schools and other public facilities. But the commonwealth does own a thriving telephone company that has a total value of more than $2 billion. So last week Governor Rafael Hernandez Colon proposed that Puerto Rico sell the phone company and invest the proceeds in two $1 billion funds. The commonwealth would use the interest from the funds to upgrade Puerto Rico's schools and rebuild its crumbling infrastructure, including its water and sewerage systems...
...months that followed, Duarte tried unsuccessfully to get the peace talks back on track. He also implemented an austerity program that enjoyed greater support in Washington than in San Salvador. A hefty devaluation of the Salvadoran colon and a tax on coffee, the country's main export, pushed inflation to the 40% mark and raised unemployment close to 50%. Wary businessmen sought investments abroad, while some of the unions that had once supported Duarte joined a new opposition labor confederation. In October 1986 an earthquake flattened much of San Salvador, killing 1,500 people and inflicting $1 billion in damages...
...wasn't long before Blades joined the roster of young Latin musicians at Fania records, the leading salsa label. In 1978 he and trombonist Willie Colon recorded the album Siembra (Seed), which went on to become one of the best- selling salsa albums of all time. Meanwhile Blades had begun to tinker with the salsa formula, replacing the horns with synthesizers and augmenting the basic Afro-Cuban beat with strains of jazz, '50s doo-wop and rock...