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   From: daily.mexican@gazette.com   
      
   Organizers of the National Puerto Rican Day parade have severed   
   all marketing and advertising ties with the New York Daily News   
   after the tabloid refused to apologize for running a photo of   
   two scantily clad women in Times Square holding a Puerto Rican   
   flags with the words "Borricua" and "Pto Rico" painted on their   
   behinds.   
      
   "The publication of a photo, featuring two topless women wearing   
   G-Strings with Puerto Rico-related slogans painted on their   
   bodies, and an erroneous claim by the newspaper that the image   
   was taken at the Parade on Fifth Avenue has caused major outrage   
   across the Puerto Rican community and beyond," Lorraine Cortés-   
   Vazquez, the board director of the National Puerto Rican Day   
   Parade Inc., wrote in a letter to the Daily News.   
      
   The photo, which ran in the newspaper on Monday, shows the women   
   – one of whom is Colombian, the other Venezuelan – walking   
   through Times Square, which was not on the parade route. The   
   photo was accompanied by the headline "Rear View on Parade."   
      
   In light of the New York Daily News’ refusal to apologize for   
   the photo, the parade’s organizers have told the paper to cease   
   using the parade’s name or logotype to promote their Spanish-   
   language site VIVA or any other publications as well in   
   marketing and community outreach.   
      
   "We are honored to work with partners who respect human dignity   
   and who have the highest regard for the Puerto Rican and Latino   
   community," Cortés-Vazquez said. "We recognize everyone makes   
   mistakes, and we work with partners who have the strength of   
   character to recognize and correct them; particularly when those   
   mistakes are damaging to families and communities. Since you   
   have opted otherwise, we will no longer partner with the Daily   
   News, now and in the future, until you take corrective action."   
      
   Along with the letter to the Daily News, the parade organizers   
   held protests outside the newspaper’s offices on Tuesday and   
   Wednesday.   
      
   New York Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez said the controversy   
   surrounding the photo has detracted from the issues the parade   
   was trying to shed light on.   
      
   "This year’s event was among the most substantive in recent   
   memory, with a focus on meaningful issues like Medicare cuts in   
   Puerto Rico, the need to free Oscar Lopez and strategies to   
   remediate the Superfund site El Cano Martin Peña," she said in a   
   statement, according to DNAinfo. "Rather than cover these   
   important matters, the Daily News chose to instead dredge up   
   salacious photographs of individuals who were not even on the   
   parade route."   
      
   This is not the first time the newspaper has run afoul of the   
   parade of the parade or the city’s Puerto Rican community.   
      
   In 2012, the publication prominently featured the Cuban flag on   
   a Puerto Rican Day Parade advertisement, behind the image of New   
   York Giants wide receiver, Victor Cruz. The Cuban flag has blue   
   and white stripes with a white star inside of a red triangle,   
   while the Puerto Rican flag features red and white stripes and a   
   white star inside of a blue triangle.   
      
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