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Iris Belia Chacón Tapia (born March 7, 1950) is a Puerto Rican dancer, singer, actress, and entertainer. [ 1 ] Known as "La Bomba de Puerto Rico" and "La Vedette de América," Chacón was a prominent figure in Latin America, the United States, Europe, and Japan during the 1970s and early 1980s.
Lady Catiria began her career at the age of 19 years in the neighborhood of Jackson Heights, Queens, impersonating the Puerto Rican TV performer Iris Chacón. [1] In the early 1980s, Lady Catiria moved to La Escuelita, a gay club located in midtown Manhattan, where she developed an extremely large following that would faithfully attend her lip-synching performances, especially on Saturday nights.
The Miss Universe [2] pageant began in 1952 and since then Puerto Rico has had 26 representatives classify in the finals, including 5 winners, 11 runners-up, 8 finalists and 2 semi-finalists. With 5 wins, Puerto Rico is the third country with the most wins behind USA (9 wins) and Venezuela (7 wins).
Meléndez Vega was born and raised in the town of Ponce, Puerto Rico. She studied commerce at the University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras and worked as a legal secretary until she completed her law studies. [3] Her first professional position was as a lawyer in the Department of Justice in 1976.
Iris Morales was born in New York in 1948 to Puerto Rican migrant parents. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Her father worked as a hotel elevator operator, and her mother worked as a sewing machine operator. [ 6 ] She went to Julia Richman High School , where she attended meetings of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the NAACP .
Iris M. Zavala (27 December 1936 – 10 April 2020) was a Puerto Rican author, scholar, and poet, who later lived in Barcelona, Spain. [1] She had over 50 works to her name, plus hundreds of articles, dissertations, and conferences and many of her writings, including "Nocturna, mas no funesta" , build on and express this belief.
Iris López is a contemporary professor, anthropologist, sociologist, and author, whose work focuses on feminist, Latino, and Latin American studies. [1] She has one full-length book published, an ethnography about sterilization within female Puerto Rican populations, titled Matters of Choice .
Interior view of the institution's archaeological laboratory. The Center for Advanced Studies on Puerto Rico and the Caribbean (Spanish: Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y El Caribe or simply CEAPRC) is a private institute housed in the former San Ildefonso Conciliar Seminary in Old San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico [1] that offers graduate studies in arts and philosophy. [2]