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Alvarez was born in Puerto Rico, although she moved to Brooklyn, New York before she was a year old and grew up there. She was the first in her immediate family to attend college, but had two sisters and a brother who followed her to Harvard. Before attending Harvard, Alvarez was in all-female Catholic schools...
...Selling Puerto Ricans on the idea of independence from the U.S. may be an uphill battle for that territory's nationalists, but rallying them against the U.S. Navy for using their homeland as target practice may be a lot easier. And that could be a problem for the Clinton administration and its candidates come November. The Navy on Monday moved three ships into position off the Navy's gunnery range on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, amid reports of an imminent federal raid to evict protesters squatting on the Camp Garcia range. President Clinton ordered the facility reopened...
...Elian Gonzalez case was brewing, a similar episode was unfolding in Miami with a much different outcome. Maria Eugenia Pereira, a Puerto Rican woman who had been living in Jordan with her husband, left him last July and moved to Miami with their two-year-old son Khalil. The father, Ibrahim Shanti, divorced her in Jordan, flew to Miami and won two favorable rulings in Florida courts, giving him temporary custody of the child. The father and son returned to Jordan April 1. Islamic countries, most of which are not signatories to the Hague Convention, tend to rule for fathers...
Maldonado says the rent will likely drive him away too. He says he hopes to return to his native Puerto Rico or possibly Central America...
...Nothing. In my neighborhood it sounded Puerto Rican...