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silvershadow

(10,336 posts)
Tue Apr 19, 2016, 12:51 AM Apr 2016

Former Governor of Puerto Rico endorses Bernie in NYC

On the eve of New York’s primary, former governor of Puerto Rico, Aníbal Acevedo Vilá, endorsed Bernie Sanders in the Bronx, the newpaper El Nuevo Día reports. Sanders held a meeting today with New York’s Puerto Rican community.

Anibal Acevedo Vilá was elected head of government of Puerto Rico in 2004 and belongs to the present ruling party of the island, Partido Popular Democrático, which is divided between those seeking a sovereign Puerto Rico with a free association treaty (Ela soberano), and those seeking greater powers in a non-territorial and non-colonial arrangement with the US (Ela mejorado).

En la víspera de las primarias presidenciales demócratas de Nueva York, el exgobernador Aníbal Acevedo Vilá anunció hoy su respaldo al senador por Vermont Bernie Sanders.

"Ha traído temas – al debate presidencial-, que deben ser la aspiración de cualquier sociedad moderna. Para mí es quien tiene más claro las posiciones sobre Puerto Rico", indicó Acevedo Vilá, en una entrevista telefónica tras participar en un foro, junto a otras personalidades políticas, con el precandidato presidencial demócrata en el restaurante Michelangelo del condado de El Bronx.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/4/18/1517083/-Former-Governor-of-Puerto-Rico-endorses-Bernie-in-NYC

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Former Governor of Puerto Rico endorses Bernie in NYC (Original Post) silvershadow Apr 2016 OP
Is he the one presiding over the economic catastrophe in PR? redstateblues Apr 2016 #1
No, that's Wall Street what's responsible. Octafish Apr 2016 #2

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
2. No, that's Wall Street what's responsible.
Tue Apr 19, 2016, 01:09 AM
Apr 2016

You'd think in the wealthiest times in human history they could make a buck without having to defraud a Commonwealth of the United States.

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