BELatina’s Weekend Recap: Puerto Rico, Billboard Awards, And More

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Happy Monday, dear readers!

We start a new week after a well-deserved break, and we come with all the energy to continue bringing you the most important stories of our community.

But as you well know, at BELatina we believe that information is power, and there is no better way to start the week than being well informed.

From the blackout in Puerto Rico to JLo and Ben Affleck’s renewed love, these are the most important news of the weekend.

The Academy bans Will Smith for 10 years

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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Friday that Will Smith is banned from attending all academy events, most notably including the Academy Awards, for the next 10 years as a penalty for slapping Chris Rock onstage at last month’s Oscars.

​​Starbucks workers organize in nationwide unionization drive

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Employees at six other Starbucks coffee shops in upstate New York voted to unionize Thursday and Friday, marking a series of victories for the fledgling organizing effort at one of America’s most ubiquitous coffee retailers.

Power restored to 80% of the island of Puerto Rico

The two entities in charge of supplying electric service to 1.5 million customers in Puerto Rico said their crews have been working intensively since Wednesday night, when a circuit breaker at the Costa Sur generation plant, one of the island’s four main power plants, caught fire and caused the shutdown of the remaining power plants. As of Saturday morning, power had been restored to at least 1.3 million customers, according to Luma Energy, the private U.S.-Canadian company that took over power transmission and distribution in Puerto Rico last year. As approximately 87% of customers gained access to electricity, Luma Energy also urged consumers to limit their power usage in order to avoid surges in power demand that could hinder the ongoing restoration process at some major power plants.

Cardi B, Bad Bunny, and Karol G are among Billboard Award nominees

Finalists for the 2022 Billboard Music Awards were announced Friday. Just over a month before the annual awards show returns to Las Vegas two years later on Sunday, May 15. Latin nominees include Cardi B for best female rap artist, and Bad Bunny, Farruko, Kali Uchis, Karol G, and Rauw Alejandro are among the nominees for best Latin artist.

JLo and Ben Affleck are engaged again

Although Jennifer and Ben called off their engagement in 2004, it’s clear to all of us that wasn’t the end of their love. This time, Jennifer shared the big news with a sweet video on social media directing you to visit her OnTheJLLo.com.

Gloria Calderón Kellett talks about the second season of ‘With Love’

“With Love” creator and showrunner Gloria Calderon Kellett said during Deadline’s Contenders TV panel last weekend that the spirit of diversity and representation that drives the romantic dramedy’s interpersonal, inter-family, and intergenerational love stories was needed and overdue.

“Turns out it wasn’t that hard.” Calderón Kellett said. “This series really came out of the pandemic and feeling sad and missing family, missing big gatherings, and my Instagram was a barrage of violence against black and brown and queer nation people. And so I wanted to give something a salve to these communities specifically, where we could see ourselves trauma-free, experiencing love and joy and thriving.”

Becky G talks about her body image experience

During an interview for It Figures — Yahoo Life’s body image series on body confidence, body neutrality, and self-love — the Mexican-American star opened up about the pressure she feels about her appearance.

“I went through this transition of young girl to young woman in front of the whole world,” she tells Yahoo Life. “You’re exposed all the time — what you look like, how you speak, how you wear something. It definitely affected me, and it impacted how I viewed my own self.”

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