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Ruth Fernández (born Ruth Noemí Fernández Cortada; [note 1] 23 May 1919 – 9 January 2012) was a Puerto Rican contralto and a member of the Puerto Rican Senate.According to the "Comisiones Nacionales para la Celebración del Quinto Centenario" (National Commission for the Celebration of the Fifth Centennial), she is said to be one of three artists whose contributions have helped unite ...
Terms of endearment; mami when referring to a cute woman, papi when referring to a handsome man, or to address a lover [22] [23] nene, nena Boy/girl [3] In standard Spanish it means "baby". panna, pana Friend / Buddy [24]: 57 ("pana" is also a name for breadfruit in Puerto Rico) [25]: 45 From partner. pasárselas con la cuchara ancha
The recorded history of Puerto Rican women can trace its roots back to the era of the Taíno, the indigenous people of the Caribbean, who inhabited the island that they called Boriken before the arrival of Spaniards. During the Spanish colonization the cultures and customs of the Taíno, Spanish, African and women from non-Hispanic European ...
Distinct Puerto Rican words like "jevo,", "jurutungo" and "perreo" have been submitted to Spain's Royal Academy- considered the global arbiter of the Spanish language.
February 15, 2024 at 9:46 AM. Generations of Latinos have grown up hearing a family member call a relative or friend "negrita" or "negrito" — which translates to a diminutive of Black. While ...
American Airlines Pilot - one of the first Hispanic women to become a commercial airline captain. Lieutenant Colonel Olga E. Custodio [note 1] (born 1953) is a former United States Air Force officer who became the first female Hispanic U.S. military pilot. She was the first Hispanic woman to complete U.S. Air Force military pilot training.
Rooster fighting is a sport that has been part of the Puerto Rican culture for centuries. In 1845, Manuel Alonso, in his book El Gíbaro, wrote that maybe a barrio could lack a church, but no barrio of Puerto Rico lacked a cockfighting venue. The sport was passed in families, from generation to generation.
Concha (lit.: " mollusk shell" or "inner ear") is an offensive word for a woman's vulva or vagina (i.e. something akin to English cunt) in Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Mexico. In the rest of Latin America and Spain however, the word is only used with its literal meaning.