Sotomayor shaped by Puerto Rico, family says

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor may not have been born in Puerto Rico, but friends and relatives say she is Puerto Rican through and through. Her roots go back to the southwestern town of Lajas, a sleepy “pueblito” known as a gateway to the island’s picturesque Caribbean coast, where Sotomayor’s mother was born in 1927.div class=”feedflare”
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