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 Wednesday, June 19, 2013
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AURORA FLORES
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 The Mercado family extended their warm holiday greetings to all concerned about the health of Ralph Mercado, who recently underwent surgery. The renowned promoter, manager and entrepreneur has helped bring Afro-Caribbean Latin music to the world stage for over 30 years.
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RAFAEL MERINO CORTÉS
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 With rubber soles, synthetic shirt and resolute spirit, Ivan Diaz, one in a multitude of runners in the 2006 New York City Marathon, rolled through a path carved out by Brazilian Marilson Gomes dos Santos. More than 3,000 Latinos crossed the finish line in Central Park yesterday, along with 35,000 other pounding hearts from around the world (including the wheelchair athletes). And they all experienced a 26.2-mile odyssey of sights and sounds that is New York City.
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WILLIAM GERENA-ROCHET
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 Yankees star catcher is a true antillano, with enough love for his family, his team and the Major Antilles. “My father is Cuban, my mother is Dominican and I was born in Puerto Rico. I feel Puerto Rican because I was born there and the fact is that Puerto Ricans opened their arms to my parents,” explained Jorge Posada, of the New York Yankees, in a recent press conference in the Bronx, New York. |
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RAFAEL MERINO CORTÉS
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 Some baseball fans thought it was strange that Cuba made it to the World Baseball Classic Finals. In fact, it was not, given Cuba's century-old domination in the game. Strange is calling a tournament between different teams in the US
and one in Canada the "World Series."
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RAFAEL MERINO CORTÉS
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 As the
political sphere of the Puerto Rican community continues to shake and
rattle, a drummer stops beating and the world looses another Ray of
love and music. “Hard Hands” Ray Barretto has moved on to a bigger
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CAROLINA COSITORE
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 We need to
access other sources of information with which to compare and contrast,
analyze and criticize the product messages from corporate and political
power fonts; in other words, to eat a well-balanced diet of information. |
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DOMINGO HERNANDEZ DE JESUS
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 Today there are many recordings of the traditional jibaro music. The
songs often speak of our Taino ancestors. The sounds of the guiro and
the maraca are always constant and consistent in the background. It is
there reminding us and connecting us to the Areitos of old. |
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MIGUEL GUZMÁN
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 "I intend to join with other Latino leaders who share our
concern for safeguarding CSV’s future as a premier cultural
institution. We also support the leadership of the Puerto Rican
Traveling Theater and Julia de Burgos Cultural Center and will work
together to seek the Mayor’s review of the policy that limits the
long-term stability of our facilities," said Luis R. Cancel in a statement issued by the CSV Board.
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ROBERT "DUBE" COLóN
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 The popularity of the Parade could serve
as a spring board for the political, economic, educational and social
mobilization of the masses of the Puerto Rican community. But would the promoters and the government ever allow it?
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RAFAEL MERINO CORTÉS
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 "When
people don’t have the facility or the academic credentials to express
themselves in front of a microphone, or in front of the United Nations, or
a political party, or a president, they will express themselves in
front of the drum and the music."
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CARLOS "TATO" TORRES
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 In addition to training youth in music and conducting regular performances featuring local and international artists, the
members of Rincón Criollo celebrate most major holidays with cookouts,
typically attended by hundreds of people. Today, Rincón Criollo is one
of the oldest community centers, gardens and casitas in the South Bronx.
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