The Partido Liberal, Neto, Auténtico y Completo, an independence political party, later became the Popular Democratic Party ( PPD ) which would ironically end up promoting the " Estado Libre Associado " ( Free Associated State ) status that Barceló, as president of Union Party, had asked for in 1923 under Campbell Bill and which Muñoz Marín had always opposed, instead of independence.

He named a young and upcoming politician, Antonio R. Barceló, the position of party Secretary.

In the November 1980 general elections, Governor Romero Barceló was re-elected by a margin of 3, 503 votes ( one of the closest in Puerto Rico history ), though his party lost control of the state legislature to the main opposing party, the PPD.

That same year, in the general elections held in November, Romero Barceló lost his gubernatorial seat against former governor and opposing party rival Rafael Hernández Colón ( PPD ).

Muñoz Rivera, together with Rosendo Matienzo Cintrón, Antonio R. Barceló and José de Diego, founded the Union of Puerto Rico party, which won the election in 1904.

Barceló left the Party and together with Luis Muñoz Rivera, Rosendo Matienzo Cintrón, Eduardo Georgetti and José de Diego founded the " Union party ".

The party, which believed in Puerto Rican independence, was presided by Muñoz Rivera with Barceló as the Secretary General.

The party, won the election in 1904 and Muñoz Rivera was selected as a member the House of Delegates, while Barceló was elected to the Chamber of Delegates in 1905.

Due to the fact that Reily had convinced the American public that the independence advocates were enemies of the U. S., Barceló and his party opted for the creation of " El Estado Libre Associado " ( a Free Associated State ) asking for more autonomy in Puerto Rico instead of independence.

The Partido Liberal, Neto, Auténtico y Completo, an independence political party, later became the Popular Democratic Party ( PPD ) which would ironically end up promoting the " Estado Libre Associado " ( Free Associated State ) status that Barceló, as president of Union Party, had asked for in 1923 under the Campbell Bill and which Muñoz Marín had always opposed, instead of independence.

In 1924, Ramos Antonini joined the Union Party of Puerto Rico founded by Luis Muñoz Rivera, Rosendo Matienzo Cintrón, Antonio R. Barceló and José de Diego in 1904, which defended self government ( autonomy ) at the time of his entrance to the party.

Differences between Barceló and Tous Soto and Félix Córdova Dávila, the resident commissioner of Puerto Rico in Washington, as to the goals of the alliance became apparent.

Differences between Barceló and Tous Soto and Félix Córdova Dávila, the resident commissioner of Puerto Rico in Washington, as to the goals of the alliance became apparent.

Barceló and De Diego were against the creation of the Jones-Shafroth Act which would impose United States citizenship upon the citizens of Puerto Rico because the act represented an impediment to Puerto Rican independence as a final status solution and because the judicial and executive branches would still be controlled by the United States.

Barceló was against the creation of the Jones-Shafroth Act which would impose United States citizenship upon the citizens of Puerto Rico because the act represented an impediment to Puerto Rican independence as a final status solution and because the judicial and executive branches would still be controlled by the United States.

In 1917, after Luis Muñoz Rivera died, Barceló became the leading force behind the liberal ideas of the island.

Barceló, who in 1917 became the first President of the Senate of Puerto Rico, played an instrumental role in the introduction and passage of legislation which permitted the realization of the School of Tropical Medicine and the construction of a Capitol building in Puerto Rico.

In 1917, after Luis Muñoz Rivera died, Barceló became the leading force behind the liberal ideas of the island.

A coalition between the pro-independence Union Party presided by Antonio R. Barceló and the pro-statehood Republican Party of Puerto Rico presided by José Tous Soto called the " Alianza Puertorriqueña " was formed.

According to the historian Pedro Barceló, it can be described as a private military-economic hegemony backed by the two independent powers, Carthage and Gades.

A more recent paper by Carlos Barceló, Stefano Finazzi, and Stefano Liberati makes use of quantum theory to argue that the Alcubierre Drive at FTL velocities is impossible ; mostly due to extremely high temperatures caused by Hawking radiation destroying anything inside the bubble at superluminal velocities and leading to instability of the bubble itself.

The words that go with the composition were approved by governor Carlos Romero Barceló on July 27, 1977, law # 123.

The tune was officially adopted as the Commonwealth's anthem in 1952 by governor Luis Muñoz Marín, and the words were officially adopted in 1977 by governor Carlos Romero Barceló.

Then-Governor of Puerto Rico Carlos Romero Barceló ( PNP ) praised the officers in a televised address by calling them “ heroic ”, stating that they acted in self-defense and stopped a terrorist attack.

Facing public pressure due to the taxi driver ’ s conflicting statements, Governor Barceló ordered two separate investigations by the P. R.

In 1911, his proposal for an Institute of Tropical Medicine ( Later renamed School of Tropical Medicine ) in Puerto Rico was approved by the president of the Puerto Rican Senate, Antonio R. Barceló who presented the necessary legislation that gave Governor Horace Towner and his cabinet, the economic resources to create the school.

Both Barceló and Jose Tous Soto, the president of the pro-statehood Republican Party of Puerto Rico, understood by Taft's statement that neither independence nor statehood would be considered for the time being and therefore in 1924, they formed an " Alliance " between their political party's which would concentrate in Puerto Rico's economic situation instead of its status quo.

His actions were viewed by Barceló and the " Alliance " as an attempt by Georgetti and the " Fuerzas Vivas " to discredit him and weaken the " Alliance ".

Barceló believed that independence should be gradual process, first heralded by autonomous insular government.

In 1928, Columbia University of New York, honored Barceló by bestowing upon him an Honorary Doctorate of Law.

His memory has been honored by Puerto Rico by naming public buildings and schools after him, including the Antonio R. Barceló Legislative Building which previously housed the School of Tropical Medicine and the Department of Natural Resources.

* Puerto Rico Por Encima de Todo: Vida y Obra de Antonio R. Barceló, 1868-1938 ; by: Dr. Delma S. Arrigoitia ; Publisher: Ediciones Puerto ( January 2008 ); ISBN 978-1-934461-69-3

Governor of Puerto Rico Carlos Romero Barceló publicly opposed the pardons granted by Carter, stating that it would encourage terrorism and undermine public safety.

Los Rayos Gamma had a television show on channel 7, where they satirized politicians with their songs to high ratings-and, which would be taken off the air due to their rather direct satirical jabs at the then governor of Puerto Rico, Carlos Romero Barceló.

Romero Barceló admitted in a public radio interview that it was “ an error of judgment ” and “ a premature declaration ” to laud the police officers, since at that time he believed they were telling the truth about their self-defense.

As president of the Senate Barceló presented the necessary legislation that gave Governor Horace Towner and his cabinet, the economic resources to create the School of Tropical Medicine, the Capitol building, the state penitentiary and healthy quarters for workers ( said quarters became known as " Barrio Obrero ").

By this time there had been a lot of trouble between the Government of Puerto Rico, headed by then governor Carlos Romero Barceló, ( who withheld economic support from the athletic delegation headed to Cuba ), and The Puerto Rican Olympic Committee, presided by German Rieckehoff, which had to appeal directly to the people for donations.

In 1982, the Government of Puerto Rico, headed by then governor Carlos Romero Barceló, withheld economic support from the athletic delegation headed to Cuba, where the Central American and Caribbean Games were going to be held.

" Because of legal reasons Barceló was unable to use the name " Union Party " and in 1932, founded the " Liberal Party of Puerto Rico ".

The fifth governor was Carlos Romero Barceló, a fierce supporter of the annexation as a U. S. state of Puerto Rico.

In January 1980 after clashing with Governor Carlos Romero Barceló, Lopez was forced to resign the chairmanship of the New Democratic Party in exchange of the Governor becoming the President of Carter's campaign in Puerto Rico and throwing the New Progressive Party behind the president's re-election efforts.

* Carlos Romero Barceló, Puerto Rico governor

Although reluctant, Carlos Romero Barceló, then Governor of Puerto Rico, ordered the local Justice Department to launch various investigations, and asked the FBI and the US Justice Department to aid in such investigations, which concluded that there was no wrongdoing on the officer's part.

Antonio Rafael Barceló y Martinez ( April 15, 1868 – December 15, 1938 ) was a lawyer, businessman and the patriarch of what was to become one of Puerto Rico's most prominent political families.

Barceló was born in the City of Fajardo, Puerto Rico to Jaime Barceló y Miralles and Josefa Martinez de Leon.

In 1910, Barceló founded the Association Puerto Rico, with the idea of protecting the main industries of the island, which at that time were the coffee, tobacco and sugar industries, against imported brands.