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Cancel Miranda was born in the town of Mayagüez, located on the western coast of Puerto Rico.His father, Rafael Cancel Rodríguez, was president of the Mayagüez chapter of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and his mother was a member of the Daughters of Freedom, an organization which was the women's branch of the Nationalist Party.
He recorded an album of Puerto Rican patriotic standards with Mario Hernández y el Sexteto Borinquen in the early 1970s, including the songs "El Bambú", "Preciosa'" (using the original lyrics that allude to the United States as a tyrant because of its colonial control of Puerto Rico), "Mi Patria Tiembla" (the latter two composed by Rafael ...
Rodríguez de Tió was born Dolores Rodríguez de Astudillo y Ponce de León [note 1] in San Germán, Puerto Rico.Her father, Sebastián Rodríguez de Astudillo, was one of the founding members of the Ilustre Colegio de Abogados de Puerto Rico (literally, "Illustrious College of Attorneys," the governing body for Spanish attorneys in Puerto Rico, similar to a bar association). [2]
Puerto Rico. Ektor Rivera was ... Objetivo Patria (2007) ... San Juan, Puerto Rico; 2019 Puerto Rico en Mi, Museo de las Américas, San Juan, Puerto Rico; 2012 ...
He later lived in exile on the island of Puerto Rico in 1855 and wrote El arp del proscrito and the Sonnet A mi patria, after the annexation to Spain in 1861 by the Dominican dictator Pedro Santana. After the Dominican Republic regained its independence from Spain in 1865, he would align himself with Buenaventura Báez , another cuadillo whom ...
In 2022, the United States House of Representatives passed the Puerto Rico Status Act. It did not pass the United States Senate. [6] In August 2024, the Puerto Rico Supreme Court dismissed the July 2024 petition by the Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP) asking the State Election Commission (CEE) to halt the status referendum. [7] [8]
Puerto Rico The Antillean Confederation was the proposed idea of Ramón Emeterio Betances about the need for peoples of the Spanish-speaking Greater Antilles in the Caribbean to unite into an alliance in order to preserve the sovereignty and interests of Cuba , Dominican Republic , and Puerto Rico .
When Gautier Benítez returned to Puerto Rico from Spain, he found a job in the provincial government office. According to his military records, between September 26 and November 8 of 1868, Gautier Benítez fought against the members of the "Revolution Committee of Puerto Rico" involved in " El Grito de Lares ", a short lived independence ...