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By NotiCel.com - The conservative group that has showcased Gov. Fortuño in the Tea Party hosted a lecture in which statehood for Puerto Rico was criticized as the possible Trojan Horse with which they will “hispanicize” the United States.

White supremacist Peter Brimelow, who maintains the website VDare.com — where a 2,000 word essay was published on its cover against Puerto Rican statehood — was one of the lecturers on Thursday in the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, where Fortuño has also been a lecturer. A lecture titled “The Failure of Multiculturalism: how the promotion of diversity is weakening the American identity,” was also scheduled, as indicated in the Univision cybernetic website.

Brimelow’s VDARE site was baptized by the United States Legal Center of Southern Poverty as a white supremacist group full of hate. The essay on Puerto Rico titled “¡Viva Puerto Rico Libre! Free Puerto Rico (And The U.S.) Now!” and divulged by Radio Isla 1320, explains why the group opposes statehood for the island.

“If Puerto Rico becomes a state, it will be like a Trojan Horse for the ‘hispanization’ of the United States,” writes the essay’s author, Allan Wall.

Wall also accuses United States’ politicians that favor the political formula of “hispandring” or promoting hispanization.

Ironically, the entity organizing the conference, the American Conservative Union, is led by Cuban-American Al Cárdenas and has as a member Cuban senator Marco Rubio, who was keynote speaker in the conference. Conquering the Hispanic vote has been a goal and a priority in the agenda of the Republican Party for this year’s elections ever since the difficulties encountered in the 2008 elections. Also, the majority of conservative republicans do not share VDARE’s vision, reason for which many in the conference were asking why Brimelow was invited to participate in the event.

The organizers of the event have washed their hands on the matter, according to the site BuzzFeed. A spokeswoman identified as Kristy Campbell said that they had 150 sponsors and exhibitors, and that the panel in which Brimelow participated was not organized by the Union, and questions should be addressed to the sponsoring entity.

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An internet survey carried out by Angus Reid Public Opinion company at the end of January demonstrated that Americans prefer independence for Puerto Rico instead of turning the island into a state — 21 percent of the 1008 polled, whom are panelists from Springboard American, stated that they favored the island becoming the 51st state of the Union.However, 23 percent of those polled said they would favor Puerto Rico becoming an independent country. Of those polled, 32 percent preferred the current political relationship between the island and the United States. This was the majority option chosen between Republicans and Democrats. Notwithstanding, among Republicans and independents, 25 percent favored independence. That same percentage, in the case of Democrats, favored statehood for the island. People between 18 and 34 years, preferred the separation of the island from the United States. Men favored the status quo more so than women. The survey had a 3.1 percent margin of error.

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A description of the projects and studies resulting from a research partnership initiated in 2005 between Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., and the Ponce School of Medicine in Ponce, Puerto Rico, has been published in a recent issue of Health Promotion Practice .

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Photo: San Juan Mayor Jorge Santini

The San Juan municipal government is launching a hate-crimes unit to investigate and raise awareness on crimes targeting people because of their sexual preference, religious belief or nationality.

“We have identified 25 members of the municipal police department who will be trained for this and assigned to the unit,” San Juan Mayor Jorge Santini said.

The unit will be tasked with education the public about hate crimes. The administration is also boosting training and resources for officers in handling domestic violence cases.

“We as a society cannot discriminate against people for who they are,” Santini said.