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Name Date Location Deaths Notes Río Piedras massacre: 1935-10-24 Río Piedras: 5 [1]Ponce massacre: 1937-03-21 Ponce: 21 [2]Utuado uprising: 1950-10-30 Utuado
The Archivo General de Puerto Rico (General Archives of Puerto Rico), established in 1955, is an archive documenting the history and culture of Puerto Rico. The governmental Institute of Puerto Rican Culture began overseeing its operation in 1956. It is located in a building shared with the national library on Avenida Juan Ponce de León in San ...
The $10,000 Correa Cotto bounty reward in the May 3, 1952, issue of "El Imparcial" Grave of Correa Cotto at Cementerio Civil de PonceOn January 25, 1950, Correa Cotto entered the Colon residence in the Villa Olga sector of Machuelo Abajo in Ponce and stabbed 33-year-old Rafael Parissi Vazquez 22 times and 69-year-old Rafaela Morales Melendez three times.
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The General Archives of Puerto Rico was formally created by Law 5 of December 8, 1955, and placed under the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture which had been created six months before. The main function of the entity is to safeguard and conserve the most important inactive documents of Puerto Rico's territorial government, both under United ...
In 1931, the U.S.-appointed Governor of Puerto Rico, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., named Dr. Carlos E. Chardón as Chancellor of the University of Puerto Rico. He was the first Puerto Rican to have this position. In 1935, Chardón initiated a project based on the ideas of Luis Muñoz Marín, who at the time was a Senator in the Puerto Rican ...
According to Jose E. Ayoroa Santaliz in his work Museo Casa de la Masacre de Ponce: En conmemoracion del Primer Cincuentenario de la Masacre de Ponce (Ponce Massacre Museum: March 2011), page 2, the Insular Ponce "assassinated" the four men in a pre-meditated fashion and under the direction of the U.S.-appointed Puerto Rico police chief the ...
Antonia Martínez Lagares (April 22, 1949 – March 4, 1970) was a 20-year-old student at the University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras who was shot and killed by a policeman as she criticized the police violence while watching the 1970 anti-Vietnam War and Education Reform student protests at the University of Puerto Rico.