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A pro-statehood Republican who represents Puerto Rico in Washington will challenge the incumbent governor in November's general election after winning his party's primary on Sunday.
A Puerto Rican judge has charged the owner and two employees of a city contractor with animal cruelty after the company allegedly took pets from a public housing project and hurled them off a bridge.
A Puerto Rico prosecutor indicated criminal charges will be filed in the slaughter of dozens of dogs and cats seized last month from housing projects and allegedly thrown from a bridge — an incident that generated worldwide public outrage.
Puerto Rican police said Thursday that they will broaden their investigation into the alleged massacre of pets after a report by The Associated Press showed that possibly thousands of unwanted cats and dogs had been slaughtered.
Back roads, gorges and garbage dumps on this tropical island are littered with the decaying carcasses of dogs and cats. An Associated Press investigation reveals why: possibly thousands of unwanted animals have been tossed off bridges, buried alive and otherwise inhumanely disposed of by taxpayer-financed animal control programs.
The fury over the massacre of dozens of seized dogs and cats in Puerto Rico has gone global.
Angry pet owners and protesters demonstrated outside a town hall in a northern Puerto Rico city on Monday, as outrage grew over the killing of dozens of animals seized from residents of housing projects.
Puerto Rican lawmakers, facing the possibility of a partial government shutdown, remained deadlocked on Sunday on plans to close a $740 million budget shortfall.
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