Rosendo Matienzo Cintrón, Manuel Zeno Gandía, Luis Llorens Torres, Eugenio Benítez Castaño, and Pedro Franceschi started to organize the Independence Party in 1912 which paved the path for similar movements.

* Luis Llorens Torres

Among her early influences were Luis Llorens Torres, Clara Lair, Rafael Alberti and Pablo Neruda.

By the late 1980s, however, illegal drugs began making their way into the complex, although the Puerto Rican drug wars of the era were mainly concentrated into other nearby complexes, mainly Residencial Nemesio M. Canales and Residencial Luis Llorens Torres.

* Luis Llorens Torres, Puerto Rican playwright and poet

Llorens Torres was born in Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico, his parents, Luis Aurelio del Carmen Llorens and Marcelina Soledad de Torres, were the wealthy owners of a coffee plantation.

The Government of Puerto Rico has honored the memory of Luis Llorens Torres by naming a public housing project in Santurce after him.

There is a bust of him in front of the high school named after him and there is a statue of Luis Llorens Torres, sculpted by the Puerto Rican sculptor Tomás Batista, in the " Plazita Famosa " of Juana Diaz.

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In Ponce, Canales joined the law firm of Luis Llorens Torres.

Canales co-founded with Luis Llorens Torres the " Revista de las Antillanas ".

According to Puerto Rican poet Luis Llorens Torres the white cross on it stand for the yearning for homeland redemption ; the red squares, the blood poured by the heroes of the rebellion and the white star in the blue solitude square, stands for liberty and freedom.

Isla Verde has very posh areas but is not too far from the Island's largest public housing project, Luis Llorens Torres Residential Complex, which is actually within San Juan.

That same year, Zeno Gandía together with Matienzo Cintrón and Luis Llorens Torres wrote a manifesto which stated that it was time for Puerto Rico to have its independence.

The Puerto Rican poet Luis Llorens Torres called Mercedes " The Puerto Rican Alfonsina Storni ".

Later, in the quest for Terra Australis, Spanish explorers in the 17th century discovered the Pitcairn and Vanuatu archipelagos, and sailed the Torres Strait between Australia and New Guinea, named after navigator Luis Vaz de Torres.

In all three games the strong Cuban female team lead by Regla Torres and Mireya Luis won the Gold medal.

Two of Columbus's crewmen during his 1492 journey, Rodrigo de Jerez and Luis de Torres, are said to have encountered tobacco for the first time on the island of Hispaniola, when natives presented them with dry leaves that spread a peculiar fragrance.

Luis Váez de Torres, a Galician or Portuguese navigator working for the Spanish Crown, proved the existence of a passage south of New Guinea, now known as Torres Strait.

In May of 1606, the first Europeans arrived at the island, led by Pedro Fernández de Quirós and Luis Váez de Torres.

Some of Susana's guests on her television program included Justin Bieber, Shakira, Gloria Estefan, William Shatner, Valeria Mazza, Verónica Castro, Paulina Rubio, Chayanne, Cristina, Diego Maradona, Ricky Martin, Alanis Morissette, Luis Miguel, Diego Torres, Liza Minnelli, Fran Drescher, Woody Allen, Sophia Loren, Grecia Colmenares, Benicio del Toro, Thalía, Robbie Williams, Julio Iglesias, Alejandro Sanz, Reynaldo Gianecchini, Viggo Mortensen, Xuxa, The Bee Gees, Lily Allen, Katherine Jenkins, Emma Shapplin, Carlos Tevez among many other national and international superstars.

In 1989, Clouthier presented an alternative cabinet ( a British style Shadow Cabinet ) with Diego Fernández de Cevallos, Jesús González Schmal, Fernando Canales Clariond, Francisco Villarreal Torres, Rogelio Sada Zambrano, María Elena Álvarez Bernal, Moisés Canales, Vicente Fox, Carlos Castillo Peraza and Luis Felipe Bravo Mena as cabinet members and Clouthier as cabinet coordinator.

After Otero's departure, New York City-born William " Bill " Pérez became WAPA's news director ( Torres held the post for a while but eventually asked to be left as an anchorperson only ) In the late 1970s, Enrique Cruz Díaz, Luz Nereida Vélez, Sylvia Gómez, Luis Rigual, Cyd Marie Fleming, José Esteves, Luis Francisco Ojeda and others joined.

Carlos Luis Torres Santiago ( Ex-Representative Former Mayor 1968-88 & 1988-96 )

* Luis Váez de Torres ( born c. 1565 ; fl.

Over the years, many people have worked on Telenoticas including: Bobby Anglero, Charito Fraticelli, Silvia Gómez, Aníbal González Irizarry, Ramón Enrique Torres, Jorge Rivera Nieves, Grenda Rivera, Ivonne Solla, Bruni Velez, Hector Vazquez Muniz, Luis Guardiola, Johanna Rosaly, Ivette Sosa, Zoraida Nelly Torres, Miguel Ramos, Siverio Pérez, Raúl Camilo Torres, Junior Abrams, Jose Esteves, Raul Quiñones, Roberto Cortes, Edwin Lemuel Ortiz and Madelyn Vega.

However, there is some Amerindian heritage among prior Bolivian presidents, such as Andrés de Santa Cruz ( 1829 — who claimed that through his mother he was descended from Inca rulers, Mariano Melgarejo ( 1864 ), Carlos Quintanilla ( 1939 ), René Barrientos ( 1964 ), Juan José Torres ( 1976 ), Luis García Meza ( 1980 ), and Celso Torrelio ( 1981 ).

Luis de Torres ( died 1493 ), perhaps born as יוסף בן הלוי העברי, Yosef Ben Ha Levy Haivri, (" Joseph the Son of Levy the Hebrew ") was Christopher Columbus's interpreter on his first voyage and the first person of Jewish origin to settle in America.

When Columbus set off for Spain on January 4, 1493, Luis de Torres was among the 39 men who stayed behind at the settlement of La Navidad founded on the island of Hispaniola.

The Luis de Torres Synagogue in Freeport, Bahamas is named after Luis de Torres, and there is a great amount of traditions on his life.

* Leandro Alfonso Luis Ruíz y Moragas ( born 26 April 1929 ), officially recognized by Spanish Courts on 21 May 2003 as Leandro Alfonso Luis de Borbón y Ruíz Moragas

Luis Somoza Debayle became President ( 29 September 1956 to 1 May 1963 ), and was effectively dictator of the country until his death, but his brother Anastasio Somoza Debayle held great power as head of the National Guard.

After the Liberal Party was defeated in 1936 elections, an assembly was held in Naranjales on May 31, 1937, in which Luis Muñoz Marín presented his ideas as to how the party should be run, however the majority of the party members objected and blamed him for their defeat.

* May 24 – Luis de Góngora, Spanish poet ( b. 1561 )

* May 9 – Luis de Morales, Spanish religious painter ( b. 1510 )

In May 1989, APRA chose as its standard bearer Luis Alva Castro, a long-time rival to García.

Rosario was then matched with Mexico's José Luis Ramírez on May 1, 1983.

In May 2006, Councilman Luis D. Carrera defeated C. P. Slayton and John Mendiola defeated Richard Hall and joined Silvia Ulloa, Richard Perez and Sammy Rodriquez to become the first all-Hispanic City Council in North Texas.

The Battle of Boulou, 29 April to 1 May 1794, saw the French Army of the eastern Pyrenees, led by Jacques François Dugommier attack the joint Spanish-Portuguese Army of Catalonia under Luis Firmin de Carvajal, Conde de la Union.

A list of past honorary degree recipients, include: Beverly Sills ( 1975 ), Roy Lichtenstein ( 1977 ), Twyla Tharp ( 1978 ), Gordon Davidson ( 1980 ) Haskell Wexler ( 1981 ) Mischa Schneider ( 1981 ), Bella Lewitzky ( 1981 ), Henry Mancini ( 1983 ), Jan de Gaetani ( 1983 ), Ravi Shankar ( 1985 ), John Cage ( 1986 ), Frank O. Gehry ( 1987 ), Trisha Brown ( 1988 ), Donn B. Tatum ( 1989 ), Luis Valdez ( 1989 ), Paul Taylor ( 1989 ), Ornette Coleman ( 1990 ), Beatrice Manley ( 1990 ), Lulu May Von Hagen ( 1990 ), Ustad Ali Akbar Khan ( 1991 ), Pearl Primus ( 1991 ), Adrian Piper ( 1992 ), Ray Bradbury ( 1992 ), Yvonne Rainer ( 1993 ), Steven Bochco ( 1993 ), Stan Brakhage ( 1994 ), Vija Celmins ( 1994 ), Betye Saar ( 1995 ), Carolyn Forche ( 1995 ), Laurie Anderson ( 1996 ), Elvin Jones ( 1996 ), Chantal Akerman ( 1997 ), Lee Breuer ( 1998 ), Ed Ruscha ( 1999 ), Bill Viola ( 2000 ), Steve Reich ( 2000 ), Ry Cooder ( 2001 ), Faith Hubley ( 2001 ), Bruce Nauman ( 2001 ), Alice Coltrane ( 2002 ), Roy E. Disney ( 2003 ), Anna Halprin ( 2003 ), Carolee Schneemann ( 2003 ), Christian Wolff ( 2004 ), Daniel Nagrin ( 2004 ), James Newton ( 2005 ), Harrison “ Buzz ” Price ( 2005 ), Julius Shulman ( 2005 ), Rudy VanderLans ( 2006 ), Rudy Perez ( 2006 ), Alonzo King ( 2007 ), Harry Belafonte ( 2008 ), Herbert Blau ( 2008 ), Terry Riley ( 2008 ), Elizabeth LeCompte ( 2009 ), Morton Subotnick ( 2009 ), William M. Lowman ( 2010 ), Trimpin ( 2010 ), Annette Bening ( 2011 ), Donald McKayle ( 2011 ), and Peter Sellars ( 2012 ).

On November 29, 2011 the Expert Commission for the Future of the Valley of the Fallen, formed by the Socialist Party government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero on May 27, 2011 under the Law of Historical Memory and charged to give advice for converting the Valley of the Fallen to a " memory center that dignifies and rehabilitates the victims of the Civil War and the subsequent Franco regime ," rendered a report recommending as its principal proposal for the Commission's stated end the removal of the remains of Francisco Franco from the Valley of the Fallen for reburial at a location to be chosen by his family, but only after first obtaining a broad parliamentary consensus for such action.

Augereau became a division commander and played a significant role at the Battle of Boulou from 29 April to 1 May, where his feint attacks lured Luis Firmin de la Union's Spanish army into a false position.

The treaty was executed between Spain and the United Kingdom in London on 7 May 1906 by their respective plenipotentiaries, the Spanish Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Don Luis Polo de Bernabé, and the British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey, Bt.

* May 25: In his second start, Fidrych held the Boston Red Sox to six hits and two runs, but the Tigers were shut out, 2-0, by Luis Tiant.

* In May 1995, Voz Fronteriza, a publication of the MEChA chapter at the University of California, San Diego published an editorial entitled " Death of a Migra Pig ," which celebrated the recent death of Luis A. Santiago, a Latino Immigration and Naturalization Service ( INS ) officer who died in the line of duty.

* May 1-Edwin Rosario becomes world champion for the first time, winning the WBC world Lightweight title that had been vacated by Alexis Argüello, with a twelve round unanimous decision over José Luis Ramírez in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

* Happy Little Luis, Sports Illustrated, May 9, 1960

Jean Baptiste Charbonneau ( February 11, 1805 – May 16, 1866 ) was an American explorer and guide, fur trapper and trader, military scout during the Mexican-American War, alcalde ( mayor ) of Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, and a gold prospector and hotel operator in California.

In a May 2010 article, Jonathan Rosa, professor of Social and Cultural Studies at New York University, criticized these reports from the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times as " deceitful " and " part of a larger, longstanding effort to discredit Luis Gutierrez.

* José Luis Bermúdez, ‘ Boardman, Peter David ( 1950 – 1982 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004 ; online edn, May 2006

Ricky Hatton began his ' American dream ' here on May 13, 2006, he stepped up to welterweight to fight WBA world champion Luis Collazo.

* 9 May – American Eagle Flight 5401, an ATR-72, crashes on landing at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico, injuring 17 of the 26 people on board.

The first overt challenge to his rule came with the meeting of the " Congresillo of Cariaco " on May 8 and 9 under the auspices of Canon José Cortés de Madariaga — who had been a member of the Junta of Caracas and had just returned to Venezuela after being imprisoned in Spain — Luis Brión and Santiago Mariño.