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Puerto Rican Day Parade

Women run under a Puerto Rican flag before the National Puerto Rican Day Parade on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan

New York’s Puerto Rican Day Parade stirs tensions between the island and the mainland

Culture

The parade lost major sponsors because it was going to honor a man some label a terrorist, even though Oscar López Rivera has now stepped aside. Meanwhile, Puerto Ricans on the island will vote on whether to become a state.

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