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(English-language translation) “Even if I am alone, and I am willing to accept that,” former Governor Pedro Rosselló González will stand by his values and beliefs on what the [pro-statehood] New Progressive Party (PNP) should be. As he indicated, the party promotes values and beliefs that are very different from his own. The Senator and former PNP Chairman, who lost the gubernatorial nomination to fellow party member Luis Fortuño in the past primaries, understands two different, “irreconcilable” viewpoints faced each other during the primaries. On his side, there are the theory of people’s empowerment, promoting statehood in every election as...

(English-language translation) The [pro-statehood] New Progressive Party (PNP) has filled the vacuum the [pro-Commonwealth] Popular Democratic Party (PPD) has left now that [the latter] is veering towards the pro-sovereignty left, former PNP Chairman Pedro Rosselló González pointed out to EL VOCERO. But filling this vacuum towards the center is not without cost, the former Governor warned, since, along the way, the PNP set aside promoting the solution to the [island’s political] status, a matter that, Rosselló said, he cannot separate himself from. During an analysis of the parties and their most recent activities, the incumbent Senator maintained that the PPD...

(English-language translation) [Resident Commissioner] Luis Fortuño last night became the [pro-statehood] New Progressive Party's (PNP's) candidate for Governor after getting 59.28% of the votes of party members participating in yesterday's primaries. He will share the ballot with Pedro Pierluisi, who was favored by PNP supporters for the Resident Commissioner nomination. Pierluisi, who was actually Fortuño's candidate, got 60% of the votes. Regarding the candidacy for Governor, the official numbers from the Commonwealth Elections Commission (CEE) showed that, at the closing of this edition, Fortuño had 97,575 votes, while his challenger, [former two-term Governor] Pedro Rosselló, had 67,033. These numbers were...

Filed at 7:32 p.m. ET SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) - The former speaker of Puerto Rico's House of Representatives was charged with rape on Thursday for an alleged assault on a 17-year-old girl who visited his home last month. In a hearing that lasted most of the day, a judge found probable cause to arrest Edison Misla Aldarondo, a prominent member of the local Republican Party, on charges of rape, corrupting a minor and supplying drugs and alcohol to a minor. Misla, 59, resigned his House seat in January after being indicted in October by U.S. authorities in an...