Lugaro Counts On Social Networks For Support

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Fox News Latino/EFE
Alfonso Rodriguez

The first independent candidate for governor of Puerto Rico, Alexandra
Lugaro, is counting on social networks to promote her image and create
a niche for herself in a system controlled for decades by two parties.

Lugaro, a 33-year-old attorney, told Efe in an interview Monday that
despite her campaign's lack of means to challenge the island's two hege-
monic parties, she firmly believes she can become the next governor of
Puerto Rico by making full use of social networks.

"Yes, I see myself as governor," Lugaro says about the balloting in
November 2016, a prospect she faces short of the financial wherewithal
traditionally needed to battle the ruling PPD, which promotes Puerto
Rico's status as a U.S. commonwealth, and the PNP, which wants the
island to...[CONTINUE READING]

Fox News Latino Interviews Alexandra Lúgaro

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Fox News Latino

At just 33-years-old, Alexandra Lúgaro, a lawyer and business owner, is
causing a big stir in Puerto Rico – becoming the first person to run as
governor of the island as an Independent.

If elected, she would become the youngest to ever hold the island's highest
office and her ideas reflect her millennial sensibilities. She wants to legalize
marijuana, same-sex marriages, and tax the island's churches.

Lúgaro, a married mother to a 4-year-old daughter, believes it’s time for
Puerto Ricans to get away from the two-party system – where voters in the
commonwealth cast their ballots based on where the party stands on the issue
of Puerto Rican statehood --  instead of voting...[CONTINUE READING]