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The need for a Puerto Rican National Guard unit became apparent to Major General Luis R. Esteves, who had served as an instructor of Puerto Rican Officers for the Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry at Camp Las Casas in Puerto Rico. His request was approved by the government and Puerto Rican Legislature.
On January 15, 1899, the military government changed the name of Puerto Rico to Porto Rico (U.S. Congress would later change the name back to "Puerto Rico" on May 17, 1932) and the island's currency was changed from the Puerto Rican peso to the American dollar, integrating the island's currency into the U.S. monetary system.
Victory in the Spanish–American War turned the United States into a world power because the attainment of the territories of Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines expanded its economic dominance in the Pacific. Its growth continued to have effects on U.S. foreign and economic policy well into the next century. [32]
On Oct. 18 of that year, the U.S. took control of Puerto Rico and raised the American flag on the island — a decision with echoing consequences still felt 125 years later.
Spain renounced all claim to Cuba, ceded Guam and Puerto Rico and its dependent islets to the United States, and transferred sovereignty over the Philippines to the United States and in turn was paid $20,000,000 ($730 million in 2023 dollars) by the U.S. [40] General John R. Brooke became the first United States military governor of the island.
On the island itself, it is a fringe but intense movement, with The Washington Post reporting that "calls for Puerto Rico's independence have existed since the days of Spanish colonial rule and continued after the United States seized control of the island in 1898 (...) although many Puerto Ricans express deep patriotism for the island, the ...
Puerto Rico [i] (Spanish for 'rich port'; abbreviated PR), [21] officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, [b] [j] is a self-governing Caribbean archipelago and island organized as an unincorporated territory of the United States under the designation of commonwealth.
The Captaincy General of Puerto Rico (Spanish: Capitanía General de Puerto Rico) was an administrative district of the Spanish Empire, created in 1580 to provide better military management of the main island of Puerto Rico, previously under the rule of a governor, jurisdiction of the Audiencia of Santo Domingo, and authority of the Viceroyalty of New Spain.