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Gun laws in Puerto Rico. In Puerto Rico, the law regulates the sale, possession, and use of firearms and ammunition. As an unincorporated territory of the United States, Puerto Rico is an "appurtenant jurisdiction" to which the Insular cases apply. Except for provisions of the U.S. Constitution that apply by their own force, only those ...
Antonio Correa Cotto was a notorious 1950s Puerto Rican criminal. On January 25, 1950, he murdered two people in Machuelo Abajo, Ponce, Puerto Rico. After being caught, prosecuted and sentenced to prison, he managed to escape and returned to Ponce where he killed 10 more people. [5] Correa Coto was killed shortly after in a shootout with police ...
In 1944, the Army sought to recruit up to 200 Puerto Rican women for the Women's Army Corps (WAC). Over 1,000 applications were received. The Puerto Rican WAC unit, designated Company 6, 2nd Battalion, 21st Regiment of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, was a segregated Hispanic unit.
The U.S. would not be the same without the hard work and sacrifice of our community. This Nov. 5, Puerto Ricans will have a non-binding vote on statehood – all Hispanic Americans should ...
LatinoJustice PRLDEF, long known by its former name the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, is a New York –based national civil rights organization with the goal of changing discriminatory practices via advocacy and litigation. Privately funded, nonprofit and nonpartisan, it is part of the umbrella Leadership Conference on Civil ...
The estimated 600,000 people of Puerto Rican descent living along the Interstate 4 corridor from Daytona Beach to Tampa, as well as some of the 350,000 or more who live in South Florida, could be ...
Consultant to the Director of Veterans Affairs in Puerto Rico. PFC Carmen García Rosado[note 1] (born October 29, 1926 - 2016) was an educator, author and activist for the rights of women veterans who was among the first 200 Puerto Rican women to be recruited into the WAC 's during World War II. Her book "LAS WACS-Participacion de la Mujer ...
The Harris campaign has been banking on strong numbers from Puerto Rican voters, particularly after a comedian at a Trump rally last week at New York’s Madison Square Garden referred to Puerto ...