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Soy Boricua Mi Amor Es Puerto Rico EL BORICUA 3109- C VOSS DRIVE EL PASO, TX 79936 elboricua.com Celebrating our 10th Anniversary A Cultural Publication From the editor . On our website we posted the following bomba and there was a question as to what exactly “caripelao” means. Mi papá me está criando con arroz y bacalao. Pero no me está criando pa' ningún caripelao'. ¡Bomba! My response to the question was “Caripelao refers to a man, in this case, who has no shame and is being very forward in his manners, or is a "sinvergüenza" - stupid, jobless, worthless, “fresco” etc. It is a "generic" term used often.” This is an example of what our website and magazine are about. Teaching our descendants about “being” Puerto Rican. Islanders know the meaning of caripelao, but our descendants aren’t always sure. It is August and school is almost starting again. Please visit our Lesson Plans site at http://www.elboricua.com/BKlessonplans_Flyer.html Print this flyer and hand to your child’s teacher. It is a flyer that announces we have FREE Lesson plans for teachers that are adaptable to all grades. Let’s present la isla during Hispanic Month this year! Siempre Boricua Ivonne Figueroa AUGUST 2005 AUGUST 2005 EL BORICUA PAGE 2 EL BORICUA is Published by: - Editors and Contributors - BORICUA PUBLICATIONS El Paso, TX 79936 ©1995-2005 Boricua Publications All articles are the property of Boricua Publications or the property of its authors. Javier Figueroa -El Paso , TX Publisher Ivonne Figueroa - El Paso, TX Carmen Santos de Curran Executive Editor & Gen. Mgr. Food Editor & Executive Chef Luis R. Claudio Boricua Sports Editor Dolores Flores – Dallas, TX Language Editor Send your email to: elboricua email Website: http://www.elboricua.com Nellie Escalante-Dumberger WEBSITE Design courtesy of Arte Boricua - Editor Midge Pellicier *MarkNet Group, Inc. Contributing Editor Subscription information Volunteer Volunteer Writers Writers Search for us in Needed Needed EBSCO Library Database. email us email us A la orden . Visit our Volunteer writers page to learn more about becoming a volunteer writer. http://www.elboricua.com/volunteers.html Tere Matthews We need people who can write one article monthly. Or you Poet Laureate can become a guest writer and send in articles occasionally. of EL BORICUA EL BORICUA is a monthly cultural publication, Advisory Panel Members established in 1995, that is Puerto Rican owned and operated. We are NOT sponsored by any club or Paul Figueroa organization. Our goal is to present and promote our Dolores M. Flores "treasure" which is our Cultural Identity - “the Puerto Carmen Santos Curan Rican experience.” EL BORICUA is presented in Javier M. Figueroa English and is dedicated to the descendants of Puerto Fernando Alemán Ricans wherever they may be. José Castellanos Ivette Farah Mildred Lanie AUGUST 2005 EL BORICUA PAGE 3 La Tiendita Visit la isla . The average size of a Puerto Rican family is about 3.5 people, and the average family income is between $25,000 and $26,000 per year. The unemployment rate in Puerto Rico is around 13 5% The "Black Holes" in space were discovered from the Arecibo Observatory Las Croabas in Fajardo in 1967. We need volunteer writers. If you are Las Croabas, 25 miles East of San Juan, near Fajardo, is the site of the interested visit our volunteer site. click Wyndham El Conquistador Resort. It is a tiny fishing village at the end of the road that offers a lot in the way of adventure travel. The local fishermen offer day sailing in their native sloops to the nearby coral island of Icacos. This area has great sailing, snorkeling and beaches. Some locals offer evening excursions into the bioluminescent lagoon – on moonless nights and others YOUR AD offer daytime excursions into the lagoon, through the mangrove canal. Seven Seas beach is off the road just before you get to Las Croabas. It's a very pretty long crescent beach, always calm. Good snorkeling at the right extreme end of the beach. Cabezas de San Juan Nature Reserve has its entrance next to FITS HERE Seven Seas Beach. You must have a prior reservation for their tours though the mangroves, lighthouse and various scenic points. It's very nice, if you can get reservations. BORICUA . The Fajardo area, in general has a whole lot to offer for visitors. There are is a powerful word. daytime ferry trips to Culebra and Vieques where you can spend the entire day It is our history, on the beach and on horseback. The trip to these islands is a “trip” by itself. it is our cultural affirmation, it is a declaration, There are other less expensive accommodations than the fancy and costly it is a term of endearment, Wyndham El Conquistador Resort, but if you can afford to stay there do it. It it is poetic . is a vacation just staying there – you will absolutely love it. it is us. Spanish-English Dictionary On-line AUGUST 2005 EL BORICUA PAGE 4 August 8, U.S. grants Puerto Rico the right to elect own 1948 Governor. Aldeas Taínas in Coamo August 8, Ponce de León founds Caparra, Puerto Rico. 1505 August 8, Spanish American War ends. 1898 August Ponce de León begins colonization of Puerto 12, 1508 Rico. August Lidio Cruz Monclova, lawyer, educator, and 13, 1889 historian is born. His works include La Gran Historia de Puerto Rico. August Roberto Clemente, Major League baseball player, 15, 1934 and humanitarian is born in Carolina. He died in 1972 while attempting to aid victims of a disaster. August Hermán Badillo, Caguas born Bronx politician. 21, 1929 Became the first native born Boricua to serve in Aldeas Taínas Congress, 1971-77. August Los Macheteros announce their existence. Along river basins in Coamo various 25, 1978 deposits of artifacts were discovered August 26 Mercedes Negrón Muñoz (pseudonym Clara Lair) after extreme torrential rains in 1971. poet was born to a family of poets and writers. Niece of Luis Muños Rivera and José A. Negrón. The cultures are from the Ignerí and Her poetry won awards from the Instituto de Taíno civilizations – and it seems that Literatura Puertorriqueña. there were three different communities August Sixto Escobar wins World Bantamweight Boxing that lived at the site at different times, 31, 1936 one on top of the other. Championship. What is thought to be the oldest archaeological find, dating back to 600 AD is found by the Coamo River. Excavations are continuing in these deposits, one of which seems to be a “batey.” This batey existed long before the Caguaná and about 200 to 300 years before Tibes in Ponce. It is the oldest archaeological site discovered, not only in the island, but in the entire Caribbean. The site is found on private property and has been designated for a cemetery and is “endangered.” Photo by: George Collazo http://www. photosofpuertorico.com/ AUGUST 2005 EL BORICUA PAGE 5 I couldn’t help imagining how the Spanish colonists lived th th during the 16 and 17 centuries, how beautiful the island must have looked backed then in its pristine state. I have My Little Piece of the Island gone back to Puerto Rico several times since then and By Antonio Ramos while visiting El Morro fortress on one of those occasions, I became fascinated with the history of the island. I bought many books about Puerto Rico and discovered that this little island was rich in history and heritage. This was my inspiration for my new novel, The Angel Falls, which My first memories of Puerto Rico date back to 1962, when I is in its final stages. It’s a story about colonial life in the was five years old. The memories have faded over time but Spanish Caribbean lands, the Taíno natives and the issue a few fragmented images still exist deep within the recesses of slavery. The story encompasses the Greater Antilles but of mind. I went to Puerto Rico with my grandmother and takes place mainly in Puerto Rico. stayed in my aunt’s farm for two weeks. The most vivid images that I can recollect are my first encounters with pigs, I have not been to Puerto Rico for many years but I am cows, chickens and mosquitoes. The second time I went to planning to visit very soon. This time I want to see El Puerto Rico I was seventeen and uncertain of who or what I Yunque, Ponce and other cities and towns. Of course was. The trip to Borinquen was very special to me because Orocovis will always be my first stop; it is where I left my I had heard so many colorful stories about our motherland heart (la sangre clama). The best thing I got out of from my parents, uncles, aunts and from my maternal visiting Puerto Rico was that it gave me the identity I had grandparents. Also it was a good opportunity to see my been searching at a crucial time in my life. I knew then father’s side of the family because I had never met them. who I was and where I came from and it filled me with pride. I fell deeply in love with Puerto Rico and embraced The first thing I remember was walking outside of the my heritage with open arms. I also embraced all Puerto airport and realizing that everybody in Puerto Rico was just Ricans as my brothers and sisters. I took a little piece of like me! I had never felt so at home, so relaxed and so good the island and buried it in the depths of my soul. That is inside.
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