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The Wikileaks phenomenon is remarkable because it seems to overtake whatever passes for “the discourse” (el discurso) and explodes from within any notion of a temporal news cycle, illuminating a hidden speech that we have always known exists, but could only rely on paranoia to imagine. The sheer volume of the documents cause revelations to […]

The University of Puerto Rico central campus in Rio Piedras is currently under siege by operatives of a private security firm called Capitol Security, which has been contracted by the University for what has been estimated to be hundreds of thousands of dollars (one report by WAPA TV’s Rafael Lenín López puts the figure at […]

I know you’re all reading the Wikileaks documents right now (how about the way the Times buried the lead in their story? all the way down the list is this little tidbit: “Saudi donors remain the chief financiers of Sunni militant groups like Al Qaeda…”), but there are some stories coming in from West of […]

These are harsh times, that perhaps need to be described by using harsh words. Such is the case of the working title of a series of videos uploaded by El Barrio/Spanish Harlem’s poet laureate Papoleto Melendez, whose new youtube channel documents last week’s viewing of a cherished “community space,” heretofore managed by Taller Boricua, for […]

Querido readers, I invite you to check out a brilliant new site that I’ve been asked to contribute to. It’s called 80 grados, and it’s written entirely in Spanish, except for my post, which is in Spanglish! All the way live from Boriken, you know, La Isla. home page: http://www.80grados.net my column: http://www.80grados.net/2010/10/jennifer/ Esto si es […]

Friday’s cover story of the Daily News, written by one of their long-time gossip columnists, is essentially a rip job on Jennifer Lopez for not donating money to her old Catholic school in the Bronx, which her mother worked at for many years. Granted, it’s newsworthy since Lopez, who like most celebrities, does tout her […]

The New York Times has now officially weighed in on this week’s announced economic policy changes in Cuba in its Week in Review section. The headline fits in nicely with today’s information technology obsession–“Cuba Resets the Revolution”–or is it a reference to Bill Clinton’s appearance at the Brooklyn Bowl last week? You remember, the reset […]

With yesterday’s announcement that Cuba intends to lay off more than half a million workers with the expectations that they would join a new, state-tolerated private sector, you have to wonder if that old song lyric, “Cuba y Puerto Rico son de un pájaro las dos alas” is more true than ever before. Think of […]

This is a tale about The Capeman, past and present, history and Broadway, Puerto Ricans and public relations, and the Public Theater. On Sunday night I was among the masses huddling under the awning in front of the Delacorte Theater, waiting through a rain delay to be seated for a performance of Paul Simon’s musical, […]

Yesterday was a banner day for bizarre self-contradiction by the right on two of our treasured American issues…cojones and white anxiety. Witness former Alaska governor turned Fox nobody Sarah Palin using Spanish to defend the chief perpetrator of the blatantly anti-Latino Arizona law called SB 1070! That is, if you think saying “co-ho-nays” qualifies as […]