For half a century, the US dominated Puerto Rico and Cuba after wrenching them away from Spain, but by the s the islands parted ways. Cubans threw off a US-backed dictator, found new patrons in the Soviet Union and embraced communism. But experts and activists say the cold war had a murky end, at least in the Caribbean, and that the future for Puerto Rico and Cuba remains far from certain.
The island also faces crises in education and healthcare, and suffered the first US death linked to the Zika virus last week. But the clamor on the mainland is against emergency aid, and only a few voices for it. Guerra noted that the dysfunctional system of shared authority, in which San Juan ostensibly governs itself but relies entirely on Washington, has bred vast corruption.
Dozens of officials in both parties and the police have faced corruption charges in the last 20 years, including those close to governors. Northern Mariana Islands. Virgin Islands. Wepa is a versatile Latin-American Spanish slang exclamation used to express excitement, congratulations, and joy, similar to the English Oh yeah!
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Even further, the revolution raised Cubans to the level of international sex symbols, models of how a small and poor nation could confront the most powerful military in the world and win.
This development immediately affected Puerto Rico. To counter the rise of Cuba rebelde as a sexy global brand, the U. Clinical or otherwise, the experiment soon lost funding and went into crisis. After , the situation for Cubans fleeing to the U. It is, then, not surprising that, in the last two years, as relations between the U. No doubt the party is back on. The motivation now is less to restore the border with Cuba than to recover lost time and re-conquer the last nearby market not deeply penetrated by American capital.
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