How did you know I would love a book about women explorers and a cookbook of Puerto Rican foods Now I have something to read that will inspire me to follow my dream of becoming an adventurer, and I have a book that I can share with my grandmother. She is getting older and wants to...
Puerto Rican doctors and nurses can hop to the mainland and make a lot more than they do on the island. The island is losing its population. As people leave, there are fewer people to support systems like the medical system. That gives people more reason to leave, creating a downward ...
In a series of tweets, he emphasized the extent of the damage in Puerto Rico, but also focused on the gratitude of the Puerto Rican government, the "great job" of first responders, and his wish for the media to treat his government's response "fairly." Tweet may have been deleted Twe...
I don’t know much about the indigenous societies of America, but I am pretty sure that their food and medical care would not have been of a standard that we would want to live with. Whether it is for good or bad, we live today with the advantages as well as...
They could not get up to search for food, so they starved to death in their beds." -- Fr. Bernadino de Sahagun. Caribbean 1493 "There occurred an epidemic of small pox so virulent that it left Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and Cuba desolated of Indians…" -- Gonzalo Fernandez De ...