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Zoilo Cajigas Sotomayor (June 28, 1858 – 1962) was a Puerto Rican santero, a folk artist who makes religious statuettes of saints and biblical figures known as santos. He was known for his piety and adherence to traditional Hispanic folk art methods. Many examples of his work exist in the Museo de los Santos de Palo in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Santos Primo Amadeo Semidey (June 9, 1902 – August 25, 1980), a.k.a. "Champion of Hábeas Corpus," was an attorney and law professor at the University of Puerto Rico, a Senator in the Puerto Rico legislature, [1] and counsel to the American Civil Liberties Union branch in Puerto Rico, established in 1937.
Puerto Rico 25 April 2019: Puerto Rico International Open San Juan, Puerto Rico [2] 1500m freestyle: 15:33.61 Jorge Herrera Puerto Rico 18 August 1991: Pan American Games: Havana, Cuba: 50m backstroke: 25.50 Yeziel Morales Puerto Rico 27 April 2023: Puerto Rico International Open San Juan, Puerto Rico: 100m backstroke: 54.89 Yeziel Morales
Rodriguez was born in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico on May 16, 1958 [2] to parents Magdalena Santos and Jose Rodriguez. At age nine, he started singing in traditional Puerto Rican festivals, as well as on radio and television programs. [3] "Rodríguez won a children's talent contest at the age of seven and at 12 he was part of the Tempo Moderno ...
María Consuelo Sanjurjo Santos, foundress of the Congregation of the Servants of Mary, Ministers to the Sick (Puerto Rico) Declared Venerable: 15 January 2019 Augustin Arnaud Pagès (Nymphas Victorin), professed religious of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (De La Salle Brothers) (Haute-Loire, France – San Juan, Puerto Rico, Dominican ...
Félix Trinidad was Puerto Rico's most notable champion during this period. [12] The 2000s brought another increase, as over a dozen boxers won world championships. Héctor García, Dommys Delgado Berty, Francisco Varcárcel and José Peñagaricano have served as presidents of the Puerto Rico Boxing Commission.
The Cabinet is composed of all members of the Constitutional Council of Secretaries (Article IV of the Constitution of Puerto Rico (1952)), who are the heads of the executive departments, along with other Cabinet-level officers who report directly to the Governor of Puerto Rico or to the Secretary of Governance, but who are not heads nor ...
Like all municipalities of Puerto Rico, Cidra is subdivided into administrative units called barrios, which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions. [1] The barrios and subbarrios, [ 2 ] in turn, are further subdivided into smaller local populated place areas/units called sectores ( sectors in English).