(28 Oct 2024)
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Dorado, Puerto Rico – 28 October 2024
1. Luis Muñoz Marin Government Center of the Municipality of Dorado where the Monument to the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is located
2. Flags of Puerto Rico and the United States at the Monument
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3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish), Ivan Perez, resident of Dorado:
“I started to see the comments and I started looking for information. I saw the video they were posting and it seemed to me to be a huge lack of respect, that is, a lack of respect towards the Black community, towards the Latino community and towards us, Puerto Ricans, above all. I mean, in reality, I don’t think that something like that should have even happened.”
4. Public plaza of Dorado
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Zoraida Rivera, resident of Dorado:
“Puerto Rico is a very valuable land and there are many good people here.”
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Carlos Rodriguez, resident of Dorado:
“He should retract it. But he’s not going to be president of the United States. That will be too much for him.”
STORYLINE:
A comic calling Puerto Rico garbage before a packed Donald Trump rally in New York was the latest humiliation for an island territory that has long suffered from mistreatment, residents said Monday in expressions of fury that could affect the presidential election.
Puerto Ricans cannot vote in general elections despite being U.S. citizens, but they can exert a powerful influence with relatives on the mainland.
Phones across the island of 3.2 million people were ringing minutes after the speaker derided the U.S. territory Sunday night, and they still buzzed Monday.
The comments dominated local news sites late into the night and prompted Jenniffer González, Puerto Rico’s representative in Congress for the pro-statehood New Progressive Party and a Trump supporter, to call them “despicable, misguided and disgusting.”
In the streets of the capital, San Juan, residents were shocked by the comments.
"I started to see the comments and I started looking for information. I saw the video they were posting and it seemed to me to be a huge lack of respect, that is, a lack of respect" said 61-year-old Ivan Perez.
Politics in Puerto Rico are defined by the island’s political status, so it’s common to see Democrats and Republicans be members of the same local party.
Meanwhile, Gov. Pedro Pierluisi, a Democrat, wrote on Facebook: “Garbage is what came out of Tony Hinchcliffe’s mouth, and everyone who applauded him should feel ashamed for disrespecting Puerto Rico.”
Other Puerto Ricans like Zoraid Rivera said she was saddened by the comments and said that "Puerto Rico was a valuable land of good people."
Hinchcliffe’s comments also prompted reaction from Puerto Rican stars, including Ricky Martin, who previously endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
He posted a video of the crude joke and wrote, “This is what they think of us.”
AP video by Alejandro Granadillo.
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