Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico es un
archipiélago y forma
parte de las Antillas
Mayores
(Greater Antilles)
 Capital: San Juan
Lenguas/idiomas oficiales: español & inglés
 Nacionalidad: puertorriqueño/a, Boricua (local), americano/a
(since 1917)
 Población: 3,411,307 (approx)
 San Juan is the 2nd oldest European-established capital city in
the Americas.
 Influencias principales
 Taíno
 Africano
 Europeo (mayormente español)

Idioma

Mucha influencia léxica

de los taínos:

Achiote, yuca, hamaca,

topónimos,…

y africanos:

Bomba, cocolo, dengue,

guineo, mofongo, chévere,
…
  El Yunque National Forest, formerly known as the Caribbean
National Forest, is a forest located in northeastern Puerto Rico. It
is the only tropical rain forest in the United States 
National Forest System.

ElYunque
 Post-María
  Es el 2do radiotelescopio más grande del mundo (1ero es en China)
 Monitorea los cuerpos celestes que están cerca o lejos y como se
mueven (sin verlos). Usa ondas de radio para enviar las señales.

El observatorio
de Arecibo
(radiotelescopio)
 Puerto Mosquito (Mosquito Bay) is located in Vieques.
This magical bioluminescent bay (bio bay) has been
officially declared the brightest recorded in the world
by Guinness Book of World Records 2008

Mosquito Bay,
Vieques
  PR has the longest zipline in the world, certified by Guinness
World Records with a 2.5km cable (8300ft), equivalent to 28
football fields.

Toro Verde,
Orocovis
 And of
course…

 Playuela/ Playa Sucia,

 Cabo Rojo
 Flamenco Beach, Culebra
 Cayo Caracoles, La
Parguera, Lajas
  El español caribeño, incluyendo al español puertorriqueño, es
altamente estigmatizado.
 Se dice que no sabemos hablar bien el español.
 No pronunciamos nuestras ’s’
Actitudes  Otras actitudes implícitas: los puertorriqueños somos
lingüísticas inferiores y menos inteligentes.
 Clase: pobres
  Puerto Rico is a US colony.
 Some consider it to be the oldest colony in the world.
 Today: PR has cultural independence (music, sports,…)
 November 19, 1493: Christopher Columbus landed in PR. PR
Un poco de was a Spanish colony for over 400 years.

historia de PR  PR had 8 days of independence (thanks to Charter of

Autonomy) before the US invasion in 1898.
 The US won the Spanish-American War and in 1898 PR
became a US territory.
 1917: Jones Act & US citizenship:
 English is decreed as the official language and Puerto Ricans
were granted US citizenship.
 We cannot vote for president, and we have a commissioner (w/
no vote) in Congress.
 Because of the Jones Act, US finished products are priced 15-
20% higher on the island than on the mainland.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFnrGcP1OyE
  1930-1970: Mass sterilization, 1/3 of PR’s female population
were operated (highest rate in the world)
 Many were operated w/o their knowledge or consent
 Women were massively used for testing of IUDs and birth
control pills

Experimentation  1939: bombing of Culebra as a practice site

 1941: occupation of Vieques by the US Navy for target practice
(and Agent Orange used in the Vietnam War)
 In total, the Navy dropped 3 million pounds of bombs in
Vieques which caused diseases (cancer)
 1948-1957: Gag Law- suppress the independence movement
 1976- IRS Section 936: allows U.S. companies to operate in the
island without paying corporate taxes generating unprecedented
profits.
 PR remains a colony, the Jones Act has not been repealed.
 PR has a debt that exceed $70 billion and was just hit by one of
the worst hurricanes in PR’s history: María.
 (http://
money.cnn.com/2017/09/27/investing/puerto-rico-debt-who-ow
ns-trump/index.html
)
Gracias 