Nueva Yol
n.— «Testigos del drama portoriqueno son las calles de las ciudades de la costa Este, las desavenencias faniliares, el alto consumo de droga, la presencia de actitud agresiva, desbalanceada de muchos portos, el alejamiento progresivo e inevitable del resto de la nacion de america latina, el altisisimo nivel de Sida en la isla, los dramas personales de violencia, sordidez, angustia que se pueden leer a diario entre la nacion portoriquena viviendo en Nueva Yol, otros.» —“Re: Sobre Edelmiro—de un Peruano” by Oscar Frias Usenet: soc.culture.latin-america Apr. 4, 1993. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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