Sentence examples for rican capital from inspiring English sources

The former champion boxer Hector Camacho was seriously wounded Tuesday in a shooting outside the Puerto Rican capital.

This is the most important fight of his life," Torres told The Associated Press outside the hospital in the Puerto Rican capital.

Camacho was shot as he sat in the passenger's side of the car outside the Puerto Rican capital Tuesday and was rushed to the trauma center in San Juan.

Old San Juan is like the Greenwich Village of the Puerto Rican capital, except its terrain is steeper and its buildings are awash in pastel pinks, blues, yellows and greens.

On Sept. 3, for example, American Airlines announced it was cutting its number of daily flights to San Juan from 38 to 18, before following up with the news that it was adding three new flights to the Puerto Rican capital — from Baltimore, Los Angeles and Santo Domingo.

Ash from the eruption has gone as far as the Costa Rican capital of San Jose.

PAGE A16 Anniversary for Puerto Rico In San Juan, thousands gathered to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Puerto Rico's commonwealth status, but in New York, the other capital of Puerto Rican life, there was no fanfare.

Carlos Delgado New York Mets One of the best first basemen in the league, the Puerto Rican arrives in the media capital having already promised the Mets he will end his controversial policy of protesting against the Iraq war by refusing to stand for the playing of God Bless America during the seventh-inning stretch.

This was the capital, the heart of the Puerto Rican community".

Puerto Rican-born Del Toro, 42, arrived in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas on Tuesday to attend a screening of the complete, four-and-a-half hour version of Che at a former bull-ring.

And for the first time in its history, which dates to 1938, the Puerto Rican Baseball League does not have a team based in San Juan, the capital.