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Para ver este documento en español, oprima aquí. Pesquera, Acevedo Vila, Santini LeadBush Could Visit P.R."Peace For Vieques" Sends Wrong MessageMartin Heads Senate CandidatesStatus Hearing PostponedNavy Continues To Find Vieques Alternatives"Independentistas" Unite To Commemorate Grito De LaresHundreds Protest Vieques At White House*******Survey: Santini Has 10.2% Lead On Bhatia In San Juan Mayoral Race September 28, 2000 SAN JUAN (AP) - New Progressive Party (NPP) San Juan mayoral candidate Jorge Santini is ahead of Popular Democratic Party (PDP) candidate Eduardo Bhatia by 10.2% in a survey carried out by Precision Research for a local newspaper. Santini gained 46.5% of the 675 voters interviewed in San Juan, while Bhatia received 36.3%, and Puerto Rican Independence Party candidate Vance Thomas achieved 4.4%. Meanwhile, the survey reports that out of nine municipalities, the NPP is at front in five of them which are Bayamon, Villalba, Maunabo, Corozal, and Cataño, while the PDP is winning in Mayagüez, Caguas, Trujillo Alto, and Sabana Grande. ******* Pesquera Leads Over Calderon; Acevedo Vila Leads Romero Barcelo September 27, 2000 SAN JUAN (AP) - If the general elections were held today, New Progressive Party (NPP) gubernatorial candidate Carlos Pesquera would win, and Popular Democratic Party (PDP) candidate Anibal Acevedo Vila would gain the resident commissioner post, according to a poll performed by Precision Research. Pesquera obtained a 46% lead against Calderon's 43.9%, while Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP) candidate Ruben Berrios has 5.1% of the 1,135 voters interviewed around the island for this poll. According to published reports, undecided voters accounted for 5% of the interviewees. The poll was carried out Sept. 10-21 with a 3% margin of error. For resident commissioner, Acevedo Vila's narrow advantage over Romero Barcelo was only 0.2%. Acevedo Vila obtained 46.3%, while Romero Barcelo received 46.1%. PIP candidate for resident commissioner Manuel Rodriguez Orellana received 4%. 3.5% of the voters were undecided. ******* Presidential Candidate Bush Could Visit Island Before Elections September 26, 2000 SAN JUAN (AP) - George W. Bush's presidential campaign will assign resources and make the effort to win the presidential election in Puerto Rico, his spokesman said. "A possibility" also exists that Bush might visit the island before the Nov. 7 elections, Steve Kupka said in published reports. Kupka, who leads Bush's campaign in Puerto Rico and other territories, said they will invest resources and efforts on the island to insure that Bush win the local election, in anticipation that the election will be tight and Puerto Rico could count at a national level. A visit by Bush to the island is not only seen as an effort to gain votes in Puerto Rico, but also as a gesture to win Hispanic votes in the U.S. ******* Rossello: "Peace For Vieques" On Ballot Sends Wrong Message By Proviana Colon Diaz September 26, 2000 SAN JUAN — In his first official appearance in two weeks, Gov. Pedro Rossello said Tuesday that writing "Peace for Vieques" on the presidential ballot will only show that Puerto Ricans don't know how to exercise their right to vote. "What it can do is show that here on the island there are a number of people that don't know how to vote because it would be the second electoral process in which the voting results don't solve anything, and in my consideration, that sector of the population is not ready to make any decision," said Rossello in direct reference to the 1998 plebiscite results in which the majority voted for the fifth column or the "none of the above choice." Meanwhile, House Speaker and Republican Party National Committeeman Edison Misla Aldarondo said because of the island's high voting percentage, the "few" ballots of protest would have no effect on the result of the voting process. According to Misla Aldarondo, Puerto Rico has one of the highest voting participation percentage in the world, 85% compared to U.S.' 48%. "If 60% of the population votes for the president, it is a much more powerful message than the one sent if a few people decide to protest their ballots," Misla Aldarondo said. ******* PIP's Martin Heads List Of Senate Candidates Chosen In Survey September 26, 2000 SAN JUAN (AP) - Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP) Senate candidate at-large Fernando Martin holds the lead position in a survey carried out by Precision Research for a local newspaper, on top of incumbent New Progressive Party (NPP) and Popular Democratic Party (PDP) members. The order of the candidates placed by the survey, , carried out between Sept. 10 and 21, was Fernando Martin, Orlando Parga, Kenneth McClintock, Sergio Peña Clos, Roberto Vigoreaux, Roberto Prats, Antonio Fas Alzamora, Lucy Arce, Jorge Colberg, Miriam Ramirez de Ferrer, Norma Burgos, Velda Gonzalez, and Eudaldo Baez Galib. ******* Hearing Postponed On Puerto Rico Status September 25, 2000 Washington -- The House Appropriations Committee has postponed until next week a hearing to consider possibilities regarding an eventual change in Puerto Rico 's status as a U.S. commonwealth. The committee, which has jurisdiction over Puerto Rican affairs, will hold the hearing on Oct. 4, a committee spokesman said. It had been scheduled to take place Tuesday. This marks the second postponement of the hearing, in which Rep. John Doolittle (Rep-CA) plans to underscore the inherent "contradictions" of Puerto Rico 's commonwealth status . Doolittle, who favors a "permanent union" between the island and the United States, is opposed to Puerto Rico 's current status , which places it under the control of the U.S. Congress. ******* Navy Continues To Find Alternatives To Vieques For Practice September 23, 2000 SAN JUAN (AP) - The U.S. Navy continues the search for a substitute for Vieques as an alternative for training in case the Viequenses vote against the Navy's stay in the island municipality, said Cmdr. Brian Cullin, spokesman for Secretary Richard Danzig. Cullin, in published reports, said Danzig has twice requested the Naval Analysis Center to again study possible alternatives. As of now, the Center has not found an alternative. He said it is "highly improbably that we find an alternative that could substitute for Vieques 100%. But maybe we can find some kind of alternative that would resolve the problem." ******* "Independentistas" Unite To Commemorate Grito De Lares September 23, 2000 SAN JUAN (AP) - For the first time in 30 years, Puerto Rican "independentistas" will gather Saturday in a united front at the Revolution Plaza to commemorate the Grito de Lares that occurred 132 years ago. The various active independentista organizations of the island agreed to have the Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP) gubernatorial candidate, former Sen. Ruben Berrios, as the keynote speaker in the ceremony, slated to start at 10 a.m. in Lares. The last united celebration of the independentistas was in 1968, under the leadership of Catholic Bishop Antulio Parrilla, at the 100th anniversary of the armed uprising of Spanish businessmen in Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and other parts of the Caribbean, against the Spanish regime to protest the increasing taxes that were demanded by the ruling Spaniards. ******* Hundreds Protest At White House Against Navy Presence On Vieques by Jose A. Delgado September 22, 2000 Washington, Sep 22 (EFE).- Hundreds of Puerto Ricans marched in front of the White House Friday to renew their demands for an end to U.S. Navy exercises on the island of Vieques. The event brought together more than 1,000 people from more than 20 cities and was intended to put President Bill Clinton on notice that efforts to block the next round of U.S. Navy exercises on the Puerto Rican island would continue. "Puerto Rico is not for sale," said the leader of the Vieques Fishermen's Association, Carlos Zenon, who was part of a delegation from the island attending the protest, the largest to take place on this issue in Washington.
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