While walking around Old San Juan, we came upon a public wedding about to happen. The groom, in the left photo, looks anxious, and the bride, in the right photo, is smiling confidently. #Puertorico#OldSanJuan#wedding#SanJuan
Constructed between 1539 and 1790, Castillo San Felipe del Morro greatly increased in size from a small promontory with a single cannon to a six-level fortress that would intimidate even the bravest attackers
Massive invasive snakes are on the loose and spreading in Puerto Rico.
Vox reports: "Runaway pets — and possibly some zoo escapees — have fueled the spread of invasive snakes across the island. It’s an environmental catastrophe in the making."
just a reminder that poverty is always relative to the amounts of wealth and resources hoarded by the oligarchy, not by whatever material possessions are owned by the poor.
in today's MY PEOPLE ARE SO SPECIAL i just listened to a woman (sorry, didn't get her name) singing about how when you finally get to taste her guayaba, you'll never forget the experience 🧐
am listening to Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico and i just reckoned that, with some interruptions, i've been listening to this station for almost 50 years.
make sure y'all take a look at the thread i posted about #PuertoRico's #SummerOfProtest; the largest #GeneralStrike in the history of the island and the United States. lasted 12-15 days (depending on who is counting) and it ended with the then governor of Puerto Rico, the nepobaby Ricardo (Ricky) Rosselló giving in his resignation and fleeing the island.
The everyday heroes of the #BostonMarathon were out in force across the course this morning.
Glorimar Samalot is here from #PuertoRico to run today’s marathon and complete her 6-star card - a card that shows runners completing marathons across the globe. It’s taken her 9 years and Boston was the last one to check off the list.
Colleen Rosazza is here with the Badass Running Moms crew from Colorado. It's her first marathon and her squad is 100% behind her.
Puerto Rican music is a blend of salsa, reggaeton and the country's own bomba style. Here's a Tiny Desk concert from El Laberinto del Coco, a collective of 14 singers and musicians, led by Hector "Coco" Barez. "Barez's vision is to dig deep into the African roots of call-and-response with four vocalists and four horn players to remind us throughout its performance of the power of bomba to create community," writes producer Felix Contreras, who is the co-host of NPR's Alt.Latino.
I had this amazing discussion with Elizabeth Ferry on @newbooksnetwork about my Caribbean futurism scifi book, SORDIDEZ. We talked about being Anthropologists writing fiction, & the differences between scholarly + artistic styles of storytelling. I read a bit from the prologue and we also chatted about the peculiar naming conventions for Hurricanes. #scifibooks#anthropology#IndigenousFuturism#puertorico#taino#speculativeprose
This documentary was nearly lost to history because the unreleased 16mm disappeared in the 80s.
Ten years ago my dad found a copy on tape among his old files. https://youtu.be/g8dXMg5Mz6c
Augustine Stahl was from #puertorico and the first #naturalist to catalog flora and fauna of the island.
Inspired by a toot by @blogdiva , I found a link to a documentary my dad made in the '70s which summarizes the USA relationship to #puertorico in the 20 century.
He visto un chorro de personas con ideologías políticas raras. Pero la más rara que veo hasta ahora son los boricuas que quieren la independencia de #PuertoRico con EE.UU para volver a ser colonia de #España. Los españoles se fueron de PR hace más de un siglo men. Déjenlo ir ya.
(she's at the little park in front on La Catedral de San Juan Bautista that's on la Calle del Cristo in El Viejo San Juan. i cannot tell you the many times i walked up and down that street. grew up in #PuertoRico and know many parts of La Isla like the palm of my hand.)
source: Bryan Llenas of FoxNews
(most of their international reporting is, shockingly, quite good)
the only US citizens Americans should be taking protesting cues from are PUERTORRIQUEÑOS.
why? Puerto Rico is bound, muzzled & knee-capped by the USA constitution YET our people took to the streets, IN THE ISLAND & WORLDWIDE, and changed the government in 12 days of non-stop protests.
PROTESTS WORK.
so much so, USA media wants you to forget those 12 days of protests when writing of the global unrests of 2019.
WE ARE MORE AND WE HAVE NO FEAR;
somos más y no tenemos miedo.
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Sorry por seguir dandole promo al podcast de Plan de Contingencia pero es que ese último episodio sobre la #Salsa estuvo buenísimo.
Por años llevo escuchando que la salsa está muriendo en #PuertoRico. Pero la estamos viendo transformarse en algo distinto.
Escuchar salsa con un toque de reggae es algo genial. También ver el chorro de rockeros y metaleros adoptarla y hasta meterse a tocar y bailar salsa es tremendo. #MastodonPR