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...police knew was that the murderer had appeared to be a young Puerto Rican. They had no other clues to the man who stabbed Arthur Collins in the New York subway last October and sprinted away. Even so, a reporter from Manhattan's Spanish-language newspaper El Diario soon picked up the suspect's trail. Following a telephone tip, Esli Gonzalez, 34, went from bar to bar in The Bronx. Finally he found the fugitive, but the man got away again. Next night, Gonzalez tracked the man down for the second time and persuaded him to give himself...
Once more, El Diario had made the news as well as reported it. It splashed the story on its front page-as did most of the New York press. El Diario lets very little news of the city's 730,000-member Puerto Rican community escape its attention; in turn, it is read loyally by the city's Puerto Ricans. In the past 31 years, its circulation has spurted 25% to 75,850, and its profits have doubled...
Sadism & Social News. A tabloid that almost always runs a picture of some battered, bruised or bloodied Puerto Rican on its front page, as well as several sex-and-sadism stories inside, El Diario also carries social news from New York and San Juan. It runs Drew Pearson and Victor Riesel, translated into Spanish, and U.P.I, and A.P. copy on Latin America, along with several columns of chitchat entitled "Chispa-zos" (Sparks), "Machetazos" (Machete Blows) and "Consultorio Sentimental" (Advice to the Lovelorn). Its uncompromising editorials, written in both English and Spanish, champion causes dear to its readers: a civilian review...
...Diario firmly believes it has a duty to promote the welfare of Puerto Ricans, and it goes about the job unceasingly. The paper's 50-man, largely Puerto Rican editorial staff spends half its time listening to readers' complaints of mistreatment. A converted city bus owned by the paper roams Puerto Rican neighborhoods soliciting other tales of trouble. Puerto Ricans who are accused of a crime often surrender to the paper simply because they are afraid of going to the police. "Saying you're from El Diario is like flashing a badge," says Editor Sergio Santelices...
Negrón, it turned out, was no hero in his Puerto Rican-Negro neighborhood where the "cop" is traditionally the enemy. His neighbors refused to speak to him; people stood outside his store muttering "Cop lover" or "Nigger hater," and customers no longer came to him. "Even people I helped, even people I lent money to pay the rent," he said, "they let me down." Negrón had been forced to sell his store for $400, even though he bought it for $5,000. He was left almost penniless, and his wife...