Word: rossello
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...used to be. You see 15-year-olds with guns. People are afraid to go out at night," says U.S. attorney Guillermo Gil, the victim of a carjacking by a teenager high on crack. In the summer of 1993 the drug trade had got so bad that Governor Pedro Rossello sent in the National Guard to patrol housing projects, where much of the business is conducted. Two years later, not much has changed. Judges are lenient and bail low, says Pedro Toledo, Puerto Rico's police superintendent. "We arrest people who have committed three, four, five, six murders," he says...
...importer's name on consumer-size packages, Watts urged the department to assert the primacy of federal law. Just nine days after Clinton's Inauguration, when the Administration had barely appointed enough staffers to run the department, a career USDA lawyer drafted a letter to Puerto Rico Governor Pedro Rossello, making that rather technical argument. Espy signed it three days later, on Feb. 1. That night, at a National Governors' Association meeting in Washington, Espy urged Rossello to release the embargoed chicken. Two days later the regulation was suspended. The chicken...
...reviewed by TIME show clearly that it was a Tyson vice president, Mike Morrison, who described in detail the many rules Tyson wanted changed. The council threatened a new lawsuit if Puerto Rico didn't agree. "We didn't want that," says an associate of Puerto Rico's governor. Rossello, at the time unaffiliated with either mainland political party, was on the verge of declaring himself a Democrat. Continues the associate: "He didn't want to offend Tyson frontally and get in a lawsuit with the Feds when he was trying to position himself closer to Clinton, who he knew...
...Still, Rossello dismisses the cultural-colonialism argument as an irrelevant scare tactic. The U.S. is becoming more tolerant of diversity rather than less, he says, and Puerto Ricans will be as free to embrace their own traditions as they are today...
...reply; the U.S. is expanding trade with Latin America, and Puerto Rico is a natural gateway. While affluent Puerto Ricans would have to pay federal income tax for the first time, the working poor and the unemployed would get higher benefits as welfare payments rose to meet mainland levels. Rossello promises that for every new dollar going to Washington, three would return in the form of higher assistance. Senator Ruben Berrios, head of the Independence Party, quips, "It is not a matter of 'Give me statehood or give me death.' It is a matter of 'Give me statehood...