News on Puerto Rico

A bullet-scarred farmhouse where the fugitive leader of a militant Puerto Rican nationalist group was killed in a shootout with FBI agents is a historical site deserving preservation, a mayor in this U.S. territory said Wednesday. Pedro Garcia, the mayor of Hormigueros, the mountain town where Filiberto Ojeda Rios was killed in September 2005, said he and the widow of the dead man are in the early stages of discussions that may transform the ...

HAVANA (Reuters) - To record his next hit El Micha, one of the rising stars of Cuba's reggaeton music blending reggae, Latin and electronic rhythms, just has to knock on his neighbor's door. A microphone plugged into an old computer in an apartment in Havana's working-class suburb of Reparto Electrico serves as the studio where some of Cuba's most successful reggaeton songs are recorded. "Reggaeton is unstoppable because it is recorded at home. It is totally independent," says Michael "El Micha" Sierra, 27, a former basketball player ...

Residents of a Puerto Rican town are vowing to fight a planned monkey-breeding facility for fear that the primates will escape and overrun their community. The facility, which will supply monkeys to pharmaceutical companies for research, was cleared for construction this week. Locals in Guayama said Friday they don't want their southern coastal town to become another Lajas — a town that today is plagued by monkeys that escaped decades ago from research facilities. "It is certain that some monkeys are ...