Del Valle arrives in Dallas; Ready to Shine Saturday Night

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Knockout Publicity


Dallas, TX (September 12, 2016) – IBF #8 super bantamweight Luis “Orlan-
dito” Del Valle and his team arrived in Dallas this afternoon after leaving Pu-
erto Rico earlier today.

Del Valle, who hails from Bayamon, meets unbeaten Diego De La Hoya, 15-
0 (9 KO's), Saturday evening over ten rounds in what is expected to be a cla-
ssic Puerto Rico vs Mexico slugfest. The bout opens an HBO PPV telecast
starting at 9 PM ET headlined by the junior middleweight championship fi-
ght between pound for pound superstar Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and reigning
WBO champion Liam Smith. The card takes place a short distance from Da-
llas in Arlington, TX at AT&T Stadium, best known as the home of the Da-
llas Cowboys.

Del Valle, 22-2 (16 KO's), had grueling training camp to prepare for what
he calls the biggest fight of his career. With his preparation in the books, Del
Valle is supremely confident that the work he put in along with his signific-
ant experience advantage will guide him to victory.

“The work has been put in by myself and my team,” said Del Valle. “I'm fo-
cused and ready to fight. A win can change everything for me. De La Hoya is
undefeated and people are discussing him as a future superstar. His team belie-
ves I'm the guy he'll beat to get to the next level and that's a major mistake. I've
been down this road before and this was the best camp I ever had. Come Satur-
day night, everybody will see that Orlandito Del Valle is a serious player in the
122 pound division!”

Puerto Rico News Digest For July 11, 2016

ATHEISTS SUE EDUCATION DEPT OVER RELIGION

From Patheos:

"Ateístas de Puerto Rico has just filed a federal lawsuit against the island’s
Department of Education and several government individuals, claiming that
several schools held Christian religious ceremonies this past March in which
converting students was part of the goal...In one case, non-religious students
were “required to assist [at] the basketball court where the religious service
was being held.” When they didn’t want to participate, their teacher told them
they had to..."

PUERTO RICAN COP INJURED IN DALLAS ATTACK

From AP:

"Ivan Saldana was among the Dallas police officers directing traffic down-
town during the protest when the shots rang out. By Saturday, Saldana was
up walking around his home, recovering from a shrapnel wound to his right
leg. "Everything happened so quickly, but at the same time, everything was
so slow," Saldana, 44, told The Dallas Morning News...Saldana began his po-
lice career with the Guaynabo Police Department in Puerto Rico, where he is
from..."

UPR FIRES WALKER AS PRESIDENT

From The San Juan Daily Star:

"The University of Puerto Rico (UPR) Board of Governors fired President
Uroyoán Walker on Thursday, naming Dr. Celeste Freytes as interim presi-
dent of the institution. Walker was fi red after the board accepted the reco-
mmendations of an investigative subcommittee, which issued a vote of no-
confidence for Walker’s alleged favoritism in the irregular awarding of pre-
sidential scholarships last academic year..."

BERNABE CALLS FOR UNITY TO COMBAT CRISIS

From Caribbean Business:

"The gubernatorial candidate for the Working People’s Party (PPT by its Spa-
nish initials), Rafael Bernabe, on Sunday called for unity between workers and
community pharmacies in order to fight the crisis Puerto Rico is facing. Berna-
be said privatization policies “not only affect workers, but also small-business
people, including community pharmacies"...“Workers’ struggle  for better em-
ployment conditions in [both] the public and private sectors is the  same fight
and has the same enemy as small-business people do,” the candidate said dur-
ing his participation in a forum at the convention of the Puerto Rico Communi-
ty Pharmacies Association at the Ritz-Carlton, San Juan..."

Puerto Ricans In Dallas Area Alert But Calm About Ebola

Source: NBC DFW

DALLAS, TX (PRM) -- Puerto Ricans in the Dallas/Fort
Worth area, like many other local residents, are worried and
fearful regarding the recent discovery in Dallas of a man
from Liberia who tested positive for the Ebola virus. Many
of the thousands of Boricuas in DFW are educating themselves
about the disease, and some are taking additional precautions
in case the virus has infected other people. Some are even
hesitating to send their children to local schools after the
revelation that children who had been  in contact with the Ebola-
stricken man had gone to class for two days after the story broke.
Grisel, a Puerto Rican resident of Dallas, is having a hard time
not feeling afraid. "It worries me a lot...as an adult, it worries
you. But when you have kids going to the local schools, you
can easily panic, because you don't know what could happen."

Joanna, another area resident of Boricua origin, has a different
reason to be concerned about the schools. "I'm worried because
my husband works for the Dallas Independent School District",
she commented. "However, we sat down yesterday to get
informed about Ebola and on how to implement precautions."
Despite her seeming calm, she's aware that many, even back
home, do not feel the same way. "People back in Puerto Rico
are already hysterical, and nothing's even happened down there",
she added. This opinion was echoed by area resident Floribel.
"If this was happening in Puerto Rico, we'd see the same reaction
that happens after a hurricane", said Floribel,  after stating that
people in the DFW area are "alert, but not hysterical".

Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan (Facebook)

Puerto Rican and Forney resident Alvin blames much of
the panic on the press. "The biggest problem I've seen is the
way certain parts of the press are manipulating information to
suit their own agendas", referring to people who oppose President
Obama or media that is seeking to simply boost its ratings. Felix,
from Levittown, Puerto Rico, but now a resident of Irving, is trying
to stay level-headed. "We're on the alert, but I don't think there's
any panic. The state has taken the right measures to educate people
about this virus...I'm uncomfortable about how it all started, because
the hospital [Texas Presbyterian, where the infection was diagnosed]
was negligent. We're just on the lookout as time passes", he said,
while dismissing the hysteria seen in some quarters.

The 2010 U.S. Census estimated there to be over 33,000 people
of Puerto Rican origin in the Dallas/Fort Worth metropolitan area.