Word: rican
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Surrounded by several dozen Cambridge schoolchildren, Representative Joseph P. Kennedy II (D-Brighton) called for a reduction of arms sales around the world as former Costa Rican President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Oscar Arias looked...
...Archbishop illustrated his point by talking about a former female student who "worshipped a Puerto Rican wrestler named Bruno." The audience erupted in laughter...
...arms lobby first had to stir up demand among the Latin Americans. The Pentagon quietly arranged for Puerto Rican Air National Guard pilots to fly Brazilian generals in F-16s. In March 1996 an armada of U.S. warplanes flew to Chile for an air show. As scores of Latin American officers and hundreds of civilians squinted into the sunny sky, an F-16 Falcon soared high up, then roared down in a kamikaze dive. A B-2 Stealth bomber flew over the Santiago fairground. A giant C-17 air cargo plane rumbled along the taxiway with a Chilean flag fluttering...
...young girl in a rural Puerto Rican sugar-cane town, Velazquez wondered what lay beyond the mountains. In 1992 she became the first Puerto Rican woman in the House and has maintained a strong commitment to her Latino roots. She was arrested in 1994 while protesting President Clinton's repatriation of Haitian refugees, and has fought for a national strategy to combat financial crimes...
Ramos agrees. "I was surprised by the amount of money students had here. I was surprised a lot of black people weren't on financial aid either. From where I was from, all the black people were poor," says the South Bronx resident, who is Puerto Rican...