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Luis Guillermo Fortuño Burset (born 31 October 1960) is a Puerto Rican politician who served as the governor of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States, from 2009 to 2013. Fortuño served as the first secretary of economic development and commerce of Puerto Rico (1994–1997), as the executive director of the Puerto Rico ...
Puerto Rico celebrates all official U.S. holidays, [1] and other official holidays established by the Commonwealth government. Additionally, many municipalities celebrate their own Patron Saint Festivals (fiestas patronales in Spanish), as well as festivals honoring cultural icons like bomba y plena, danza, salsa, hamacas (hammocks), and popular crops such as plantains and coffee.
This list of museums in Puerto Rico contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The politics of Puerto Rico take place in the framework of a democratic republic form of government that is under the jurisdiction and sovereignty of the United States Congress [1] as an organized unincorporated territory. Since the 1898 invasion of Puerto Rico by the United States during the Spanish–American War, politics in Puerto Rico have ...
Luis Leoncio Yordán Dávila [6] [7] (12 September 1869 – 29 December 1932) was an attorney and Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, from 1917 to 1918. Origin [ edit ]
Acta Tercera del 22 de diciembre de 1895 which, translated in English, reads as: "Terreforte, one of the survivors of the Cry of Lares, presented the new flag that is in the same way as the Cuban one, with the difference that the colors have been inverted: white stripes and blue triangle instead of red, with the same lone white star in the center." Third Act of December 22, 1895 CRPR members ...
The Puerto Rico statehood movement (Spanish: movimiento estadista de Puerto Rico) aims to make Puerto Rico a state of the United States. Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territorial possession of the United States acquired in 1898 following the Spanish–American War, making it "the oldest colony in the modern world". [1] [a] As of 2023, the ...
Politics portal. v. t. e. Partido Republicano Puertorriqueño [1] [2] (English: Puerto Rican Republican Party) was a political party founded in Puerto Rico on July 4, 1899. [3] The party dissolved in 1924 when it split into two factions, both factions forming alliances with other local parties. [4] It was led by Dr. José Celso Barbosa .