#San Juan National Historic Site

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San Juan National Historic Site, San Juan, Puerto Rico

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Underneath a battle shrine where Filipinos took a stand against Spanish colonial rule lies one of the largest underground reservoirs in the world. Made of volcanic tuff, the underground reservoir held water carried over the waterworks system from the Marikina River before being distributed to various fountains and hydrants in Manila. It was part of the larger Carriedo waterworks designed by Genaro Palacios and built from 1878 to 1882. The infrastructure project was named after Francisco Carriedo y Peredo, a Spanish official who bequeathed a grant to the City of Manila in 1733 to build a water system to support the city's burgeoning population of 300,000 people.

When El Deposito was still functioning, it had a capacity of 56,000 cubic meters. Ventilation shafts kept the water fresh and free from contamination. The reservoir is located under the hill, its vast central channel connects to 25 smaller chambers, each measuring five meters high and three meters wide. As part of the Carriedo Waterworks, the reservoir also supplied various hydrants and fountains in Manila. Five kilometers of cast iron pipes transport water from the Marikina River. 

The reservoir played a critical role in various chapters of the country's history including the Battle of San Juan del Monte on August 30, 1896, which has been touted as the first battle of the Philippine Revolution.

El Deposito was also used as an armory during American and Japanese rule, a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients, an armory, and a firing range. It was chosen as the site of a national shrine inaugurated in 1973.

Over time El Deposito has fallen into decay. In 2016, an archaeological team conducted an assessment and excavation and two years later the National Historical Commission of the Philippines began cleaning up the site. The initial opening for 2020 was derailed by the COVID-19 pandemic, but it finally opened to the public on November 30, 2023.

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Puerto Rican Rock Art, Part 2

Hello and welcome to part 2 of my Puerto Rican Rock Art project! I will mostly be talking about Cueva Lucero (pictured above). I may mention other caves as well, just because there aren't many papers written about this specific cave. There are many others since about 81% of rock art found on the island is found in caves (Dubelaar 1994). I imagine it's just easier to talk about all the caves as a whole since they were all used similarly.

Cueva Lucero can be found in Juana Diaz in Puerto Rico. (Not from references).

However, due to fears of vandalism, the cave's exact location isn't listed in the National Register of Historic Places. In this same form, Cueva Lucero is deemed as important due to all the art found in it, this art shows us a part of the past we could have never seen without it. It is thought to be a place of religion or as a ceremonial site (Rodriguez et al, 2008). This cave was used around 600-1500 C.E., and represents mostly pre-Hispanic times and contains around 100 rock art images. That makes itself one of the best examples of pictographs in Puerto Rico (Rodriguez et al, 2008). While it has plenty of pictographs, it has petroglyphs as well.

The difference between petroglyphs and pictographs are that one is painted, and one is carved imagery. I included an example above.

There are three different types of landscapes that both these styles show up in:

A. Caves and rock shelters on the coast, created by the waves.

B. Caves and rock shelters found in the mountains.

C. Riverbanks and riverbeds.

As well, Puerto Rico has an extra type:

D. The petroglyphs found in Puerto Nuevo. They are engraved in flat sandstone ledge that run parallel to the coast (Dublelaar 1994). Pictured below.

Rock paintings found in Puerto Rico can be monochrome, bichrome and polychrome (Dubelaar 1994). They also can be found in a couple colors as well. Red, white, orange and black were most commonly used (Hayward et. al., 2009).

Cueva Lucero falls under type B, has most, if not, only monochrome paintings. Most are painted using the color black.

Here, you also see a lot of circles being used in their art. Obviously, using circles so much does suggest that the shape has importance for the community (Fewkes 1903). It can be seen as a sign of unity, which, is found in many other indigenous communities. Here are some examples of circle art found in Cueva Lucero.

Lots of circles.

That is about it for this cave. Cueva Lucero holds valuable knowledge about the past. Without it, the other caves, we wouldn't have been able to obtain as much knowledge from our Taino ancestors as we do now. This goes to show, these old paintings and carvings, sites we find on the island (sites where people lived, hunting sites), are vital to understanding our history.

All photos (unless otherwise stated) are pictures from Cueva Lucero. All but the very first photo are from Rodriguez et al. 2008.

My references:

Dubelaar, C. N. 1994. Prehistoric rock art in Puerto Rico. Latin American Indian Literatures Journal, 10(1): 78–82. 

Fewkes, J. Walter. “Prehistoric Porto Rican Pictographs.” American Anthropologist 5, no. 3 (1903): 441–67. http://www.jstor.org/stable/659123.

Hayward, M. H., Roe, P. G., Cinquino, M. A., Alvarado Zayas, P. A. and Wild, K. S. 2009. “Rock art of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands���. In Rock Art of the Caribbean, Edited by: Hayward, M. H., Atkinson, L. G. and Cinquino, M. A. 115–136. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.

Lace, Michael J. “Anthropogenic Use, Modification, and Preservation of Coastal Cave Resources in Puerto Rico.” The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, vol. 7, no. 3, 2012, pp. 378–403., https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2012.729011.

Rodriguez, Yasha N. and Pedro Alvarado Zayas. 2008. "Cueva Lucero." National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. On file at Puerto Rico State Historic Preservation Office at San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Rouse, I. 1992. The Tainos: Rise and Decline of the People Who Greeted Columbus, New Haven: Yale University. 

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Leaders of the Navajo Nation, a federally-recognized tribe in the southwest, are heavily criticizing the Biden administration for its action last week banning oil and gas leasing impacting their citizens.

In a highly-anticipated action last week, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland finalized a ban on fossil fuel leasing within 10 miles of the Chaco Culture National Historical Park located near San Juan County, New Mexico. While she said the move would protect the sacred and culturally significant site, Navajo leaders have argued it will wreak economic devastation on tribal members who rely on leasing the land for income.

"I really am emotionally distraught for our constituents that have been impacted by this," Brenda Jesus, who chairs Navajo Nation Council's Resources & Development Committee, told Fox News Digital in an interview. 

"Since I've entered the legislative body for my Navajo people, I've listened to a lot of constituents out in that area and, you know, it's just emotional distress, psychologically as well, that they've talked about this – it really disturbs me to know how much more of a hardship that these folks are going to be experiencing out there," she said.

On Wednesday, Jesus led a delegation of Navajo tribal leaders who met with lawmakers on Capitol Hill, making their case against the Department of the Interior's (DOI) action and for a compromise solution. The tribe previously backed a five-mile buffer zone to protect the site while ensuring future drilling on oil-rich allotments. 

Navajo Nation leaders have also warned that the federal government failed to properly consult them on the action. They said Haaland never seriously considered their compromise solution and potentially neglected her legal duty to protect rights of Navajo allottees.

"The proper government-to-government tribal consultation has never really taken place at all," Jesus told Fox News Digital. "We're just really advocating on behalf of our constituents. That wasn't really considered – tribal sovereignty."

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Overall, the ban amounts to a withdrawal of approximately 336,404 acres of public lands from mineral leasing near Chaco Canyon site.

There are currently 53 Indian allotments located in the so-called 10-mile buffer zone around Chaco Canyon, generating $6.2 million per year in royalties for an estimated 5,462 allottees, according to Navajo Nation data. In addition, there are 418 unleased allotments in the zone that are associated with 16,615 allottees. 

According to the Western Energy Alliance, an industry group that represents oil and gas producers in the area, Navajo members will lose an estimated $194 million over the 20 years the action is in place.

"A lot of the allottees themselves rely on these royalties for their livelihood," Carlyle Begay, the federal and state government affairs adviser for the Navajo Nation Council, told Fox News Digital. "Instead of providing our communities and these people directly the opportunity to provide for themselves, they are providing no solutions in how these families are going to compensate for these income losses."

In addition, Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren blasted Haaland for announcing the leasing ban on Treaty Day, which celebrates the signing of the 1868 treaty that formally began the government-to-government relationship between U.S. and the Navajo Nation.

"The Secretary’s action undermines our sovereignty and self-determination," Nygren said in a statement. "Despite my concerns and denunciation, the Department of Interior has moved forward, which is highly disappointing. Secretary Haaland’s decision impacts Navajo allottees but also disregards the tribe’s choice to lease lands for economic development." 

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He added that the decision "jeopardizes future economic opportunities" and places thousands of Navajo allottees in "dire financial constraints."

Troy Eid, a lawyer who represents Navajo Nation allottees and a former U.S. attorney who was appointed to chair the federal Indian Law and Order Commission, said his clients were prepared to file a lawsuit against Haaland over the action. 

"These are among some of the poorest zip codes in the United States. The secretary has decided to steal their mineral rights and it is theft," Eid told Fox News Digital in an interview. "These are rights that were guaranteed to them by federal law in the Hoover administration and the very opening months of the Roosevelt administration – these allotments." 

"This order to withdraw land in violation of a Navajo Nation compromise that has been out there for at least two and a half years to come up with a buffer zone that will work for everybody is absolutely outrageous," he continued. "The secretary chose to do this on Treaty Day, our Navajo Nation holiday. She's looking at a lawsuit that I think she's going to have to take very seriously."

While DOI stated Friday that the action won't impact existing leases or production on those leases, Eid and other opponents of the buffer zone said it would indirectly make Indian-owned allotments worthless. 

Because drilling on the Navajo allotments requires horizontal crossings that pass through federal land impacted by the ban, the action effectively ends all drilling in the area, he said.

NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBE CONDEMNS BIDEN ADMIN EFFORT TO BAN OIL, GAS LEASING ON LANDS

"If they ban land development on all federal land, you can't have any more continued developments on our parcels. You wind that down, they would get lease payments for the duration of the leases that they have now, but they could no longer get royalties under what she's done," Eid told Fox News Digital.

"The bulk of the compensation that they earn right now – they, the allottees – from their mineral rights are royalties paid by the companies that are developing the oil and have been, for the most part, since the 1950s. There won't be any new development," he added. "There'll be no economic reason or ability for companies to develop the land."

The allotments date back to the early 1900s, when the federal government awarded them to Navajo citizens as a consolation when the tribe's territory was downsized.

Republican lawmakers, meanwhile, said Haaland's action was part of the Biden administration's broader climate change agenda and argued Chaco Canyon is already protected. Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., who chairs a House panel on Indian affairs, said it represented a "taking" of tribal lands and vowed congressional action.

"This afternoon I had the opportunity to meet with Navajo tribal leaders and discuss Chaco Canyon and Secretary Haaland’s radical activist decision to create an arbitrary buffer zone around this national park," Hageman told Fox News Digital on Wednesday, "a decision that should rightfully lie with Congress, not the Department of Interior."

"This buffer amounts to a taking of Navajo land, creating economic hardship that will ultimately take money away from much-needed education, medical and infrastructure projects – an estimated $1 billion in revenue," she continued. "The secretary has made this cruel decision without ever speaking with tribal leaders or allottees. We will do whatever we can to stop this taking – whether through my subcommittee or the upcoming appropriations process."

The DOI declined to comment.

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Best Places To Visit In Puerto Rico With Family

Puerto Rico offers a range of family-friendly destinations that cater to both kids and adults. Here are some of the best places to visit in Puerto Rico with your family:

Old San Juan: Explore the colorful streets of Old San Juan, filled with historic sites, charming shops, and vibrant culture. Visit the impressive El Morro Fortress, enjoy a stroll along Paseo de la Princesa, and sample local treats like piraguas (shaved ice).

El Yunque National Forest: Embark on a family adventure in the lush rainforest of El Yunque. Hike to waterfalls, swim in natural pools, and learn about the unique flora and fauna of Puerto Rico.

Flamenco Beach, Culebra: Take a day trip to Culebra Island and visit Flamenco Beach, known for its pristine white sand and crystal-clear waters. Relax, swim, and snorkel together in this idyllic tropical paradise.

Bioluminescent Bay, Vieques: Experience the magic of a bioluminescent bay in Vieques. Take a nighttime kayak tour and witness the glowing waters teeming with microscopic organisms. It's a truly enchanting experience for the whole family.

Arecibo Observatory: Visit the world-famous Arecibo Observatory, home to the largest single-dish radio telescope. Learn about space exploration, astronomy, and engage in hands-on activities that will captivate both kids and adults.

Luquillo Beach: Spend a day at Luquillo Beach, a family-friendly beach with calm waters, facilities, and shaded picnic areas. Build sandcastles, play beach games, and enjoy the warm Caribbean sun.

These family-friendly destinations in Puerto Rico offer a mix of natural beauty, cultural experiences, and outdoor adventures that are sure to create lasting memories.

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Intramuros, Manila

When visiting the Philippines, one should not forget to visit the walled city of Intramuros.

Known to be the settlement of the Spanish invaders for 333 years, this place have witnessed a lot of historical events of the country.

The most remarkable probably is the imprisonment site of the country's National Hero, José Rizal, in Fort Santiago.

The Intramuros Administration has established a museum dedicated to commemorate our National Hero. Here are some pictures I took when I visited the place with my boyfriend.

Of course, to make it worthwhile, we have also visited other historical structures like the Manila Cathedral and the San Agustin Church which are the only remaining out of the originally seven (7) churches that once stood within the walls.

We have also walked on the walls and saw some of the known universities, Colegio de San Juan de Letran - the oldest college in the Philippines, and the Lyceum of the Philippines University - the only university founded by a Philippine president José Laurel.

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Welcome to my blog!

I spent a year in the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Corps, a professional development and service program for young adults under the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC) umbrella. Both FEMA Corps and traditional NCCC involve working, living, and traveling around the United States in teams with a small living stipend. I chose FEMA Corps due to a greater interest in emergency management and disaster relief.

I wasn’t finding much recent firsthand information on FEMA Corps, so I decided to make this blog according to what I would have liked to know prior to joining. Be warned: some of it is a little dry. Birds are also a special interest of mine, so I’ll be sharing a lot about them, too.

List of blog entries: Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4

Information: FEMA Reservist Position Information Disaster Survivor Assistance: Just-In-Time Training Disaster Recovery Center: Just-In-Time Training Environmental Planning and Historic Preservation Cadre Disaster Aid in Alaska (Day 307)

Highlighted posts: A (pretty cool) site inspection in Caguas, PR (Day 122) Birding in San Juan, PR (Day 179) A road trip through California (Day 281) A trip to Forks, CA (Day 305) A road trip through Crater Lake, OR (Day 350)

I posted everything to a personal primary blog before realizing I should have put it all on a secondary blog. But now it's been reposted here. All of these posts can also be found on the WordPress site too.

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The Castillo San Cristobal (1634-1783) has been part of the San Juan National Historic Site since 1949. In 1983 the fortifications were declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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Day 12, Mon June 8: Durango to Mancos to Cortez to Rico to Telluride and back, 366 km

My hotel serves breakfast, so I get to talk to some of the locals. As a result, I switch Telluride from a sidebar on tomorrow's ride to a full day trip today. Right choice. It turned out to be a spectacular day.

Durango sits at 6,522', pop 19,223 and is surrounded by massive mountains (San Juan range of the Rocky Mtns), unbeatable skiing and an historic small gauge railway, a vestige of its silver mining days.

I head out on Hwy 180 to Mancos (7,020', pop 1,221), the gateway to Mesa Verde National Park, home to 4,700 archeological sites and 600 cliff dwellings.

I pass through to Cortez (6,191', pop 8,855) located at the corners of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah.

From.there, I turn north on Hwy 145 to Rico (8,825', pop 347), obviously now a mere shadow from its silver mining heyday. With the elevation climb comes lower temperatures and rain. I find a sheltered awning and scramble beneath to put on my warm clothing and rain gear. As all bikers will attest, there is no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing choices. Well, almost, as I pull out of Rico, the hail starts. It's not good on a sports bike. I consider turning around, but it drops off, only to start hailing again 15 minutes later as I climb higher towards Telluride. I white knuckle onwards, too close now to turn back.

It turns out to be the right decision. I explore my way through Telluride, then ride over to Mountain Village to catch the gondola ride over the top of the mountain back to Telluride. As it starts raining, I eat lunch on the gondola, enjoy the scenery, and look at the black clouds rolling in. Rather than linger when I get back, I head straight back, kit up, and get on the bike. Within minutes, the hail starts up again. It lasts about 20 minutes, bouncing off my helmet and smashing my knuckles, but finally, I make it back to the lower elevation of Rico where it turns to just plain rain.

Other than the stunning scenery and the winding roads, the trip back after that is comparatively peaceful. I celebrate by stopping in to explore and have dinner in Durango.

Someone was smiling down on me today. A spectacular ride, awesome scenery, a safe return, and $3.00 beer night in Durango. Life is good.

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Diosa Luna (Taíno Moon Goddess), Los Hermanos Guillén, Yamasá, República Dominicana. La Española was the first Spanish colony in the New World, preceding Puerto Rico by 15 years. It became independent twice, in 1844 from Haiti (which had invaded in 1822) and in 1865 from Spain (to which Santo Domingo had been restored by President Pedro Santana in 1861 due to bankruptcy). After 1865, Spain's colonies in the Americas were reduced to Cuba and Puerto Rico. Cuba obtained independence from Spain in 1898 and from the United States in 1902. Puerto Rico became a possession of the United States in 1898. "Of all Spanish colonial possessions in the Americas, Puerto Rico is the only territory that never gained its independence." Marisabel Brás, The Changing of the Guard: Puerto Rico in 1898

Site banner photo: a garita (colonial sentry box) of the Old San Juan Spanish fortress complex —which includes Castillo San Felipe del Morro (El Morro) and Castillo San Cristóbal, the largest Spanish fortification in the New World— keeps silent watch over the tropical Atlantic. Photo by Michellewint @ Wallpapercave.com

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The last of the European colonial possessions can shed much light on the social behaviors of countries the world over, including the former colonial powers themselves. It is often easier to diagnose the failings of other cultures than to critically examine those of your own. (This is the overlooked beam in thine eye judgment bias.)

Another key point illustrated here is the use of unfair policies that ruling powers impose on ethnicities and inchoate nations they control. (This is the might makes right political fallacy.) These extraneous conditions, often intended to crassly project colonial power, become psychosocially onerous and contribute to the erosion of the cultural fabric that sustains the moral traditions and norms of conduct of the colonial society.

The main point of the presentation, however, is to showcase the egregious irresponsibility of the colony's political and social leaders when they abdicate their patrimonial duty to demolish the mentality of submission and lead the people to freedom, not just from the colonizers but more importantly from the rank, metastasized corruption the colonial leaders and inhabitants have learned, adopted and further developed on their own. People are always responsible for the consequences of their deeds and attitudes.

Borikén Taíno Map c. 1508 —goodrusk.com

Puerto Rico's 78 municipalities (offshore islands not distanced to scale) —CameraMundi.com

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Columbus lands in Guanahaní (San Salvador), 12 October 1492. Image: PBS Learning Media/GBH. Columbus also discovered Borikén (San Juan Bautista, later Puerto Rico) on his second voyage on 19 November 1493.

Juan Ponce de León y el cacique Agüeybaná en Borikén en 1508.

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Castillo San Cristóbal is a fortress in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It was built by the Spanish to protect against land-based attacks on the city of San Juan. It is part of San Juan National Historic Site. Built 1783, Castillo San Cristóbal is the largest fortification built by the Spanish in the New World. When it was finished in 1783, it covered about 27 acres of land and partly encircled the city of San Juan. Entry to the city was sealed by San Cristóbal's double gates. After close to a hundred years of relative peace in the area, part of the fortification (about a third) was demolished in 1897 to help ease the flow of traffic in and out of the walled city. Source: wikipedia . #castillosancristobal #fortsancristóbal #historicsites #history #springbreak2023 #spring2023 #puertorico #exploringpuertorico #destination #discoverpuertorico #vacation #sanjuan #travel #destination #lifeofadventures #sanjuannationalhistoricsite (at Castillo San Cristóbal, San Juan, Puerto Rico) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqTCb90OwgR/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Flanked by an elementary school and a local shopping mall on the other side of the road, this looks like an ordinary site except for a prominent watchtower that seems to belong to another era. Indeed this tower, more than a century old, served as the entry point to the gunpowder depot that once held power over a nation that ached for freedom and liberty after three centuries of colonial rule.

When the Katipunan (officially the Kataastaasan Kagalang-galang na Katipunan ng mga Anak ng Bayan and abbreviated as the KKK) decided to rise against the colonial Spanish government, they targeted to strike the El Polvorin first because it would cut off one of the most important military depots—and provide them with supplies of their own. On August 29, 1896, the Katipuneros led by Andres Bonifacio attacked El Polvorin.

The battle is considered the first major battle of the Philippine Revolution, which led to Philippine independence from Spain in 1898.

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On August 30, 2022, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) and the San Juan City government inaugurated the El Polvorin Linear Park, built around the site of a historic Spanish-era gunpowder depot which is now within the San Juan Elementary School.

The watchtower is located just near the entrance of the school and is accessible 24 hours, directly in front of Puregold supermarket chain.

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Retablo at Mission San Juan Capistrano Preserved, Restored, Protected

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The front wall of the Father Serra Chapel at Mission San Juan Capistrano, CA is a very detailed, sculpted in wood, wonderfully gilt ‘retablo’ that was created in a workshop in Seville, Spain about 150 years before the mission was built. For the next two weeks, Fine Art Conservation Laboratories (FACL) will be preserving, restoring, protecting this important part of the the most famous of the The 21 Missions of California.

The monumental crucifixion, painted in 1800, was a wonderful art conservation project some years ago.

Previous restorations utilized inferior quality materials that have tarnished and the Mission is looking to ‘restore the sparkle’ of this gorgeous ‘wow’ factor of the mission, especially for the holidays arrive. More on this as the project progresses.

The tabernacle that sits on the main later in front of the Retablo

The art conservation treatments for gilding on the tabernacle, the main alter and the 6 candlestick holders are still to be scheduled. Contact the Mission Executive Director if you would like to participate in the wonderful historic preservation work that will benefit our future generations with these devotional objects.

Previously, FACL has had in the lab for stabilization, restoration and preservation the 4′-5′ carved wooden and painted statues that are in the niches and on the wall pedestals in the front of the chapel. Also, the monumental crucifixion, painted in 1800, was a wonderful art conservation project some years ago.

At the moment in our lab,, Fine Art Conservation Laboratories is also working on and consulting about artifacts and art from the Santa Barbara Mission and Mission San Luis Obispo.

Questions? Call Scott Haskins, Head of Conservation 805 570 4140 or faclartdoc@gmail.com

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Alley Cat Allies Wins Major Victory in Fight to Save Cats at Puerto Rico Historic Site

Alley Cat Allies has achieved a major victory to protect community cats living on the San Juan National Historic Site in Puerto Rico. Alley Cat Allies legal efforts and refusal to back down have forced the United States National Park Service (NPS) to agree to halt movement on its cruel plan to remove and kill cats on the historic site starting October 1.

“This victory is a crucial step, and Alley Cat Allies stopped the NPS’ reckless and cruel intention to begin removing and killing these cats on October 1. However, the cats’ lives remain at risk unless the plan is struck down permanently,” said Yonaton Aronoff, a lawyer representing Alley Cat Allies. “Alley Cat Allies will not back down until that happens, for the sake of the cats and the many Puerto Rico residents and advocates worldwide who have spoken out to defend them.”

Alley Cat Allies’ historic lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia claims the NPS’ plan to remove the cats violates the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). In August, Alley Cat Allies filed for an injunction against the NPS to stop its imminent action starting October 1. Ultimately, the NPS agreed to Alley Cat Allies’ terms, which include ceasing steps toward the removal of the cats until the court decides the legality of the NPS’ plan.

Following NPS’ agreement to stand down, the legal process is moving into an expedited briefing schedule with a court decision expected early in 2025. Alley Cat Allies is prepared to fight relentlessly until the NPS abandons its inhumane and illegal plan entirely.

For generations, community cats have lived in peace along the rocky shores of San Juan’s scenic Paseo Del Morro, which is part of the San Juan National Historic Site. They are true community members who are adored by locals and tourists alike and are woven into the fabric of Puerto Rican culture.

Alley Cat Allies contends that removing and killing these cats disregards the inherent value of the cats’ lives; the wishes of the San Juan community; and the proven humane, effective approach to community cat populations: Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR).

For now, the community cats of the Paseo del Morro are safe, but their future hangs in the balance. The National Park Service has shown its willingness to pursue a brutal and inhumane plan, and without continued pressure, these cats remain in grave danger.

Alley Cat Allies is calling on advocates around the world to continue to speak out in support of Puerto Rico’s cats and against the NPS’ plan to eradicate them. More information and action to take can be found on its website, www.alleycat.org.

About Alley Cat Allies

Alley Cat Allies believes every cat deserves to live out his or her life to the fullest.

Founded in 1990, Alley Cat Allies is the leading advocacy organization for cats with a mission to transform and develop communities to protect and improve the lives of all cats and kittens. Together with our over 1.4 million supporters, we work toward a world where cats are valued and every community has humane and effective programs and policies to defend them.

Through our fearless advocacy, humane care, education and outreach, and law and policy activism, we empower and mobilize citizens, advocates, grassroots groups, shelters, veterinary professionals, and elected officials across the United States and around the world to improve their communities for cats through nonlethal, evidence-based approaches. Our website is www.alleycat.org and we are active on Facebook, X, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube.

Content source: https://www.alleycat.org/alley-cat-allies-wins-major-victory-in-fight-to-save-cats-at-puerto-rico-historic-site/

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Read this: Part 2 When I’m bored at home, I ask ChatGPT the following types of questions:

Question:

I'm curious, I need to know. Are the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico known for being experts in the field of tourism? They receive many visitors annually, so I assume they have a well-developed tourism sector.

ChatGPT Answer:

To answer your question: Yes, both the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico are highly regarded for their well-developed tourism sectors.

The Dominican Republic is the most visited destination in the Caribbean, attracting millions of tourists annually. Its tourism industry is centered around its beautiful beaches, resorts, historical sites, and eco-tourism. The country has a robust infrastructure to support tourism, including international airports, luxury resorts, and adventure activities.

Puerto Rico is also a popular tourist destination, offering a mix of natural beauty, vibrant culture, and historical landmarks. It benefits from being a U.S. territory, making travel easier for American tourists. The island is known for its beaches, rainforests, and historical cities like San Juan.

Both nations have invested heavily in their tourism industries and are recognized for their expertise in catering to international visitors.