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Miami (AFP) - La tempête tropicale Ernesto s'est transformée en ouragan mercredi, a annoncé le Centre américain des ouragans (NHC), et continue de s'éloigner de Porto Rico, où elle a entraîné des fortes pluies. Mercredi matin, la tempête s'est transformée en ouragan de catégorie 1 sur l'échelle de Saffir-Simpson avec des vents allant jusqu'à 120 km/h, a indiqué le NHC dans son dernier bulletin. A Porto Rico, la tempête a laissé plus de 600.000 foyers sans électricité, a annoncé Luma Energy, l'entreprise privée gérant le réseau de l'île. Le réseau électrique portoricain subit de fréquentes pann...
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Miami (AFP) - Ernesto grew into a hurricane Wednesday, US forecasters said, after leaving more than 600,000 customers without power in the US territory of Puerto Rico. The storm brushed past the Caribbean island overnight, and was expected to dump up to 10 inches (25 centimeters) of rain in some places, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said. It became a Category 1 hurricane on the five-category Saffir Simpson scale on Wednesday morning, with maximum sustained winds of 75 miles (120 kilometers) per hour, the NHC said. The storm left some 604,000 customers in Puerto Rico without electricit...
AFP
Miami (AFP) - Tropical Storm Ernesto advanced Tuesday through the Caribbean toward Puerto Rico, where officials shut down schools and sent workers home as forecasters warned of a possible hurricane. The storm was moving west-northwest toward the US island with maximum sustained winds of 60 miles per hour (95 kilometers per hour), according to the National Hurricane Center. It was expected to pass near or over the US and British Virgin Islands in the evening, before moving to the north and northeast of Puerto Rico later Tuesday and Wednesday. The storm could become a hurricane within 12 hours, ...
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Durante más de 400 años Puerto Rico fue parte de España. Junto a Cuba y Filipinas, esta isla fue una de las últimas provincias de ultramar que conservó la Corona en el Caribe. Hasta 1899, cuando fue entregada a Estados Unidos. Los cuatro siglos de pasado común, la lengua que comparten en la actualidad ambas naciones así como la herencia hispana en su cultura y tradición parecen seguir estando presentes en parte de su población, al menos en el 13% que, según la organización política recién creada Adelante Reunificacionistas, quieren volver a ser españoles. Un futuro partido políticoEn base a es...
Euronews (Spanish)
Adelante Reunificacionistas, así se llama el primer partido político de Puerto Rico que quiere alejarse de Estados Unidos y buscar la reunificación con España. El pasado 20 de junio, ante el Comité de Descolonización de la ONU, la política Annette Falcón expuso los argumentos de su partido, asegurando que "queremos volver a España para conservar nuestra cultura, nuestro idioma y nuestras costumbres". "Creemos firmemente en la solución de una reunificación pactada entre Estados Unidos, España y Puerto Rico", añadió Falcon. Un referéndum sobre Estados Unidos en noviembreEl lunes, el gobernador d...
Euronews (Spanish)
Miami (AFP) - A former girlfriend of Bad Bunny has filed a $40 million lawsuit against the Puerto Rican megastar, alleging he used a recording of her voice in several songs without permission. Carliz De La Cruz Hernandez, who dated Bad Bunny from 2011 to 2016, filed the lawsuit at a Puerto Rican court in San Juan earlier this month, though the outlet Noticel first reported it just this week. In 2015, before Bad Bunny had skyrocketed to global fame, she recorded a voice note for him saying the phrase "Bad Bunny, baby," court documents say. She alleges that the singer, born Benito Martinez Ocasi...
AFP
Puerto Rico and other Caribbean islands are being hit with another massive hurricane years after the devastation left by Hurricane Maria. This storm, named Hurricane Fiona, first touched down in Southwest Puerto Rico on Sunday, causing a blackout on the whole island as well as extremely destructive flooding and mudslides. As of Monday, the huge storm Fiona is now over both the Dominican Republic and parts of Puerto Rico, and could leave as much as 30 inches of rainfall on the island before it lets up. Over one million residents of the two islands are now without drinking water. Power outages a...
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The expanded child tax credit expired in December, but those who didn’t receive the monthly payment last year can claim the full amount this year. A nonprofit tech organization has now made its user-friendly sign-up tool available to Puerto Ricans to make it easier for them to claim their child stimulus checks. How Puerto Ricans Can Claim Their Child Stimulus CheckQ2 2022 hedge fund letters, conferences and more The tool's launch follows a recent IRS announcement for Puerto Ricans. In May, the IRS stated that most Puerto Ricans would be able to claim their CTC with a simple return, even if the...
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Miami (AFP) - At least 11 people died after a boat believed to be carrying dozens of migrants capsized off the coast of Puerto Rico, with rescue efforts set to continue through the night, the US Coast Guard said on Thursday. "As of 6 PM Thursday (2200 GMT), responding partner agency units have rescued 31 survivors, 11 female and 20 male. 11 deceased have been recovered," the Coast Guard said in a tweet. A spokesperson for US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) told AFP that the shipwreck occurred 10 nautical miles (19 kilometers) north of Desecheo Island, an uninhabited US territory between Pu...
AFP
Washington (AFP) - Most people in Puerto Rico woke up Thursday with no electricity after a blackout hit the entire US island territory in the Caribbean. The Luma electric company said the outage Wednesday evening may have been caused by a failed circuit breaker at a power plant. It said the precise cause was not yet known. The specialized website poweroutage.us said that as of 0320 GMT Thursday, all 3.2 million residents of the island were without electricity. "Given the massive size and scope of the outage, power restoration could extend well into Thursday and Friday for some areas," Luna sai...
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