Speaking Boricua

So the never-ending status question has been raised again, this time with the can of worms by Gil the Jenius and then the can of snakes fro...

I hate to admit this, but after Tuesday's lame Wikipedia cop-out , I started to feel a little guilty. Surely I had much more to say abou...

I don't feel the need to describe el Grito de Lares here, seeing as Wikipedia does a decent job of describing it . Instead I thought I ...

As you may or may not know, for a long period during Spanish colonialism Puerto Rico was home to contraband and pirates , the most famous on...

Before the Spanish-American War, coffee was one of the strongest industries of Puerto Rico. Along with sugar and tobacco, it dominated expor...

I happened across this moments ago on El Nuevo Día and I really have no choice but to post the entire thing. A most likely shoddy English t...

So apparently the Puerto Rican legislature is trying to get a(nother) holiday celebrating American citizenship added to the calendar (for Ma...

I just caught this article about the history of the forts in San Juan and felt like sharing. Real post later...

Well, the first thing that I have to talk about is the latest news about Aníbal Acevedo Vilá . Boy is he in trouble! He has finally been ch...

So I was asked recently if Americans speak English or Spanish while living in Puerto Rico . The answer is a bit complicated so I want to sta...

Slaves from Africa first came to Puerto Rico to replace the shrinking population of Taínos , the indigenous people of the island. Because of...

For part 1 , click here . So, the Spanish-American War ends after the U.S. blockades Puerto Rico for long enough that the people were very...

All right, this is going to be Puerto Rican history in a nutshell. Before Christopher Colombus arrived in Puerto Rico in 1493 , the island, ...