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Bad Bunny, a multimillion-dollar charm for Puerto Rico’s economy

Ana Teresa Toro — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 13:40:40 +0000

—Are you guys celebrating that bunny?

Deciphering Puerto Rico and the love for its roots

Ana Teresa Toro — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 04:23:55 +0000

It is a fact that in the Caribbean, troubles are dealt with through dancing, singing and laughing, clinging to humor with a laughter that combines tears, helplessness, frustration, relief and amusement. Also, for a few decades now, it has also been useful to know the perreo.

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Trump is the winner of ‘Like’ politics

Ana Teresa Toro — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 09:20:24 +0000

Let’s get the obvious out of the way nice and early: Trump won, Biden lost. The format worked. The microphones muted at key moments, according to the agreed rules, and the candidates taking turns at the bat — as we like to say in these vulgar, ordinary and much despised “third world” countries that former president Donald Trump talks about with so much disdain and where we love baseball so much that we use it as a metaphor for anything — were effective in, at least, showing a tiny part of the (thoughts? ideas?) of this duo that no one really wanted to see debating, but whose exchange was more urgent than urgency itself. At least, we got a sense of what is buzzing inside the head of each of the two oldest presidential candidates in the history of the youngest American nation in history.

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