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The Liberal Party of Puerto Rico (Spanish: Partido Liberal de Puerto Rico) was a pro-Puerto Rican independence political party.The Liberal Party was founded in 1932 as a formal disaffiliation between two political parties which composed the political coalition known as the Alianza (Alliance).
Partido Liberal Neto, Auténtico y Completo (roughly, in English, the Transparent, Authentic and Complete Liberal Party) was a political party in Puerto Rico from 1937 to 1948. [ 1 ] Luis Muñoz Marín , the son of a former Resident Commissioner , founded the party after being expelled from the Liberal Party on 31 May 1937.
Puerto Rico is an organized unincorporated U.S. territory which has been given internal self-governing powers [a] which, taken together, are referred to as "Commonwealth" status. Puerto Rico has more latitude over its internal affairs than the U.S. territories of Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, or American Samoa. [42]
The PSP originated as the Movimiento Pro-Independencia (MPI), founded on January 11, 1959, in the city of Mayagüez.The MPI was formed by a group of dissidents from the Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP), former militants of the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico and the Communist Party of Puerto Rico, and university students, some of them members of the Federación de Universitarios Pro ...
The Puerto Rican Autonomist Party (Spanish: Partido Autonomista Puertorriqueño [1]) was a political party in Puerto Rico founded in 1887. [2] [3] The Party was founded in Ponce, Puerto Rico, and its first chairman was Román Baldorioty de Castro. [4] He was followed by Martin Corchado, a prominent physician from Ponce. [5]
The Ley de la Mordaza also made it illegal to sing a patriotic song, and reinforced the 1898 law that had made it illegal to display the Flag of Puerto Rico, with anyone found guilty of disobeying the law in any way being subject to a sentence of up to ten years imprisonment, a fine of up to US$10,000 (equivalent to $131,000 in 2024), or both.
La Democracia, founded on 1 July 1890, was a news daily published by Luis Muñoz Rivera in Ponce, Puerto Rico.It crusaded for Puerto Rican self-government. [5] At a publication length of 58 years, it was the longest continuously-running Puerto Rican Spanish newspaper of its time, and one of the longest continuously running Puerto Rican newspapers of all time.
The Liberal Reformist Party (Spanish: Partido Liberal Reformista) was a political party in Puerto Rico founded by Pedro Gerónimo Goyco, José Julián Acosta and Roman Baldorioty de Castro in 1870. [1] It was the first political party ever to be established in Puerto Rico. [2] The party was formed following the Grito de Lares revolt. [3]