The Associated Press: 2 survivors bring relief to family, but 49 missing

'Javier said her nephew and husband were making their first trip abroad, hoping to escape the poverty that afflicts a fourth of the people in the country of 9.5 million.

"He told me he wanted to do something, to be someone," she said of her husband. "I told him not to leave."' Full Story »

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Topics: Poverty, Immigration
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Posted by: Posted by Margarita Persico - Dec 6, 2008 - 8:54 PM PST
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by Margarita Persico - Dec. 6, 2008

Good Associated Press style reporting -- straight news. Danica Coto does a consistent job reporting on the Hispanic community in U.S. and the commonwealth of Puerto Rico. She could have obtained a quote to end the story that would have answered: why does it appear that amount of Dominicans trying to enter the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico is expected to increase? After all, she has been writing on this topic for a while, though she comments on it, a quote from an official source ... More »

"Hundreds of migrants have died in recent years while trying to cross the treacherous Mona Passage that separates the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. Just ... More »

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