The New Yorker24d
An Arson Attack in Puerto Rico
A violent act on New Year’s Day allegedly committed by a tourist highlights rising tensions between the island and the mainland United States.
Tourist burned down Puerto Rico bar after being kicked out, authorities say
Authorities accused the woman of fleeing Puerto Rico after the Jan. 2 fire that left four businesses inoperable.
The Washington Post on MSN28d
Puerto Rican nationalists attacked the Capitol. Jimmy Carter freed them.
When President Jimmy Carter commuted the prison sentences of the four Puerto Rican nationalists who attacked members of Congress and President Harry S. Truman in the 1950s, he cited “humane ...
Tourist burned down a Puerto Rico bar after being kicked out, authorities say
A Missouri woman has been indicted for arson after allegedly setting fire to a bar in Puerto Rico where authorities say she twice clashed with employees on New Year's Day.
Stars and Stripes28d
Puerto Rican nationalists attacked the Capitol; Jimmy Carter freed them
(Carter wound up narrowly defeating Kennedy in the Puerto Rico primary.) The attack on the Capitol had occurred March 1, 1954. Four members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party entered the ...