The failure at that time of the Puerto Rican bishops to control the votes of their people added a ring of good sense to Father Weigel's theological argument.

* 1969 – Ari Meyers, Puerto Rican actress

* 1848 – José Gautier Benítez, Puerto Rican poet ( d. 1880 )

* 1974 – José Vidro, Puerto Rican baseball player

* 1984 – Valery Ortiz, Puerto Rican actress

* 1947 – José Cruz, Puerto Rican baseball player

* 1866 – José de Diego, Puerto Rican statesman and journalist ( d. 1918 )

* 1976 – Ramón Vázquez, Puerto Rican baseball player

* 1944 – Antonia Novello, Puerto Rican physician, 14th Surgeon General of the United States

* 1972 – Raul Casanova, Puerto Rican baseball player

There was an additional republican secessionist process in the Basque Country, Catalonia, Galicia, a Cantonal republican uprising in Murcia and Andalucía, and a constant political tug of war between the Antillean Criollo Spaniards ( Cuban and Puerto Rican ) abolitionists and slavers.

The Puerto Rican activist Julio Vizcarrondo had moved the Spanish Abolitionist Society from San Juan de Puerto Rico to Madrid at the request of premier Miguel Prim, himself a former Puerto Rico governor.

Cuba and Puerto Rico, reached tremendous levels of development and wealth, to the point that Spain's First Train was between Havana and Camaguey, and the world's first telegraph was in Puerto Rico, as Samuel Morse lived there with his daughter, married to a Puerto Rican businessman.

Upon the American INvasion of Puerto Rico, 10 US dollars were needed to buy 1 Puerto Rican peso.

* 1973 – Roselyn Sánchez, Puerto Rican singer, model and actress

* 1956 – Luis Guzmán, Puerto Rican actor

* 1956 – Mark Lutz, Puerto Rican actor

* 1974 – Millie Corretjer, Puerto Rican singer and actress

* 1919 – Luis Olmo, Puerto Rican baseball player

* 2003 – Carmita Jiménez, Puerto Rican singer ( b. 1944 )

The documentary shows many sides of the mainly Puerto Rican community of the South Bronx, including reformed gang members, current gang members, the police, and the community leaders who try to reach out to them.

The Incondicionales accepted whatever Spain had for Puerto Rico and the Crown duly recognized their support by giving aristocratic titles to the leaders.

Category: Puerto Rican party leaders

Category: Puerto Rican party leaders

Category: Puerto Rican party leaders

Others, like political leaders Ruben Berrios and Fernando Martín, and the 2002 Miss Puerto Rico, who is a Viequense, have had pictures taken by the press aboard VAL planes while flying to Vieques, giving the airline a new wave of unpaid-for promotional attention.

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Under Santisteban's close supervision, many Miss Puerto Rico titleholders became TV personalities, international models and business leaders.

" It was in Puerto Rico that Illich met Everett Reimer and the two began to analyze their own functions as " educational " leaders.

Offended by Logroño's portrayal of ministers, Pentecostal leaders in Puerto Rico threatened Logroño's program with boycotts, and Raschke and Milton Picón ( the local representative for Morality in Media ) actually confronted him on television talk shows.

Although most PRP leaders supported statehood for Puerto Rico, they decided that their new party would seek to include people who supported other status options.

Two leaders from the opposing parties, the Popular Democratic Party and the Puerto Rican Independence Party, charged that after a December 1979 meeting between the two, the Governor, then considered as a lifelong Republican, began campaigning to deliver the 41 Democratic Party convention votes of the island for President Jimmy Carter ’ s ( D ) nomination for the presidency ( ironically, Carter ’ s opponent for the nomination was Senator Kennedy ).

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Later assumed to be a protest against the dictatorship of Juan Vicente Gómez, culminating in the incarceration of this group of young leaders and their subsequent transferring to the Libertador castle of Puerto Cabello.

In Puerto Rico, Machetero leaders Filiberto Ojeda Rios and Juan Segarra Palmer had heard of Gerena ; Gerena's mother's background as a pro-independence advocate and his dislike of life in the army made him, in Ojeda Rios ' and Segarra Palmer's eyes, a candidate to become a member of Los Macheteros.

On August 20, 1967, at the assembly in Carolina, Puerto Rico at which the organization was dissolved, Padilla and other party leaders proposed the creation of a new political party that would eventually be known as the New Progressive Party ( NPP ) or Partido Nuevo Progresista ( PNP ) in Spanish.

The tensions between both leaders led to Padilla splitting from the NPP and creating the Puerto Rican Renewal Party ( PRP ), and aspiring for Governor under the PRP banner.

The revolt, which occurred on of March 26, 1897, was organized by Antonio Mattei Lluberas, Meteo Mercado and Fidel Velz and was backed up by leaders of " El Grito de Lares ", the first major independence attempt, who were in exile in New York City as members of the Puerto Rican Revolutionary Committee.

19th Century male leaders of the Puerto Rican Independence Movement

19th Century female leaders of the Puerto Rican Independence Movement

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As a high school student, he was a member of Aspira of New York, where he was elected to the post of Vice President of the citywide Aspira Clubs Federation ( ACF ), which included other future Puerto Rican leaders like Ninfa Segarra and Angelo Falcón.

Commander Manuel Rojas ( 1831 – October 14, 1903 ), Commander of the Puerto Rican Liberation Army, was one of the main leaders of the Grito de Lares uprising against Spanish rule in Puerto Rico.