Bill Clinton visita a Puerto Rico

[L_F_Miranda]

El Washington Post acaba de informarle al público de Washington sobre la visita de Bill Clinton a Puerto Rico.

He aqui, en inglés, la noticia, para que se meen de la risa.

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Bill Clinton Visits Puerto Rico, Rich in Culture and Delegates


By Eli Saslow
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, April 8

BARCELONETA, Puerto Rico, April 7 -- The four sound trucks filed onto potholed streets at 8 o'clock Monday morning, weighed down by the 800-pound speakers rigged to their roofs. They drove past the pineapple plantations, past the black-sand beaches, past the multicolored tiendas downtown.

All morning, the trucks blasted the same short message, as if repetition might make it more believable:

"Sí! Bill Clinton está aquí!"


Yes, a few hours later, Bill Clinton did come to this farming town 1,200 miles from the U.S. mainland, bringing with him the 2008 Democratic presidential campaign. The former president walked into the humid courtyard of a university to a drumroll from boys banging on steel garbage cans, past security guards in Hawaiian shirts and women dancing to salsa music, to make the case for his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.

It may have been the first U.S. presidential campaign rally in Puerto Rican history, but more are sure to follow. On June 1, the U.S. commonwealth will hold a Democratic primary that will help determine 63 delegates -- more than the number awarded to 24 of the 50 states. About 2.5 million voters are eligible to participate in the primary, and both Hillary Clinton and her Democratic challenger, Sen. Barack Obama, are expected to visit the island to woo them.

The 4 million residents of Puerto Rico are not allowed to participate in the general election, so they plan to press their issues during their brief turn in the national spotlight. They want better health care, higher wages and a final determination of their murky status with the United States.

Most of all, they want to inject themselves into the national conversation -- a process that started with Bill Clinton traveling Monday to five events across the island. He never came here as president -- no U.S. president has visited in 45 years -- but he spoke Monday as though he may be back soon.

"You might actually determine this election," he told the crowd in Barceloneta. "If you vote for [Hillary] and give her a big margin, she'll be the nominee and she will always honor your support."

But on Monday, the culture gap between Clinton and Puerto Ricans, who were granted U.S. citizenship in 1917, sometimes seemed insurmountable. When Clinton walked into the rally in Barceloneta, he sat on a stage and listened as four local politicians introduced him in Spanish. One introducer, among 18 local politicians at the event, turned away from the microphone and looked back at Clinton, eager to interpret for him.

"When I say 'presidente,' " the mayor said, "that means I'm talking about you."

Clinton flashed a thumbs-up and smiled wanly, but he looked distracted during the Spanish speeches. Then he walked to the microphone, shielding his eyes against the 90-degree sun. He rattled off a thank-you list of Spanish names and mispronounced two of them.

As about 1,000 people crowded under white awnings to escape the heat, Clinton proceeded to give a jargon-heavy speech in English about health care and energy efficiency. Nobody interpreted, and only a handful of audience members seemed to understand him. The crowd -- raucous and dancing a few minutes earlier -- remained mostly silent during the 10-minute speech. Some people left. Others chatted on their cellphones.

"What is he saying? Do we clap now?" asked Jerry Nieves Rosario, a college student who speaks only Spanish. "If I had known about this, maybe I would have stayed home."

JA JA JA JA JA JA JA JA JA JA JA

[Ricardo I]

Ahi se ve lo que significa la palabra "colonizado" al desnudo. Hemos sido colonia por 515 años y podemos seguir asi por 515 años más por lo que se ve. Por lo menos el articulo sobre la visita del ex-presidente asi lo demuestra. Me imagino a los gringos riendose de la colonia asquerosa en que vivimos. Nuestro orgullo nacional ha hecho que seamos menos que los demás, pues aqui vienen muchos extranjeros que saben más ingles que los de aqui y tienen mejores trabajos que los de aqui. Asi nos ha enseñado el PPD a traves del ELA por más de 56 años. El ELA, supremo truco para mantener a más de 5,000 lideres del PPD viviendo en las mejores condiciones de los "Dos Mundos" que es este sistema. Sus cuentas de banco pasan de los $ 200,000; viven en mansiones y sus hijos están en los mejores colegios y saben ingles. Sus hijos serán los que nos mantendran bajo este sistema para igualar a sus padres. Mientras tanto, nosotros, el pueblo de Puerto Rico los seguirán manteniendo en el poder, dizque por orgullo nacional y nos conformaremos con las migajas que nos den. Somos lo que somos, porque queremos serlo. !Viva el orgullo nacional! !Abajo el empoderamiento del pueblo!

Ricardo

[Suki]

Ricardo tu eres estadista? Si o no? Por que si eres estadista no eres distinto al popular. La solucion DIGNA y de largo plazo a cualquier clase de coloniaje es la independencia. Si no le metes mano a ser independentista entonces eres igualito que los POPULARES que criticas. El PENEPE es una forma de coloniaje asimilista en donde viven bajo el engano que los norteamericanos pudientes y adinerados, van a compartir el poder, y el dinero con el club exclusivo de sus colegas boricuas, llenos de orgullo y soberbia , alla en Puerto Rico. Estan LOCOS si piensan que eso va a ocurrir. Los ricos de los paises son los que al final tienen que abogar para la independencia si quieren el poder. Si no lo hacen los colonizadores pudientes le dan una pata en sus traseros colonizados, y sigue la alcurnia norteamericana reteniendo el poder del estado ,y el poder fiscal, y el poder economico e financiero. Asi es como trabaja en todos los paises que han pasado por la etapa de coloniaje.

Piensalo Ricardo. Si eres estadista eres igualito que los populares. No te enganes.

Bill Clinton esta desesperado para ir a Barceloneta y dar un discurso. Ojala que se acuerde de su falta de espanol en Puerto Rico y se diga en ingles---Damn, those people are US citizens but they are foreigners in every important way, we need to cut them loose!! I can't convince them to vote for Hillary when they don't speak English and I can't even read their names!! And they aren't even IMPRESSED with my efforts!! I got sunburn too---I need to get those people out of the race for the presidency permanently---especially if they give their votes for Obama! They are all black anyway.