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Invierno boricua | Boricua Winter By Laura Virella | December 17, 2012 An unprecedented revolution has recently taken place in Puerto Rico. Our people, who have always been characterized by combating social and political issues with words and not arms, have organized through social media to create a more effective protest against the criminal wave that threatens to drown our society and, later on, to denounce and protest the hateful and intolerant rhetoric propagated by the TV show "La Comay." "After the Arab Spring, Comes a Boricua Winter," says the ABC/Univision article. I could barely contain my excitement. It seemed as though, after so much worrying and so much debating among many, Puerto Rico was in fact capable of setting partisan and political differences aside and seeing beyond the sociopolitical mess in order to address a purely social issue. [Read more.] Dispatch from the New Puerto Rican (Diaspora) By Laura Virella | November 30, 2012 I am a 31-year-old opera singer born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. I am the daughter of two lawyers; the granddaughter of a doctor, a lawyer, a chemical engineer and a fashion designer; and the great-granddaughter of a dentist, two teachers and two entrepreneurs who founded and owned the Colmado Nuevo, Humacao's oldest grocery store. I am not an activist. I am not a politician. And I know very little about economics, business and handling money. But I come from a long lineage of educated people who believed in providing for the next generation a better life filled with more opportunities than those which they were given. I grew up privileged without knowing it. We were plain middle class, but every penny was spent on providing me the best education one could buy in Puerto Rico and affording me culture and art. More than that, every free-of-charge effort was made to supply me with curiosity, support, a sense of right and wrong, empathy, a sense of justice, a sense of power when it comes to self-realization, and plain common sense. [Read more.] |