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The Popular Democratic Party (Spanish: Partido Popular Democrático, PPD) is a political party in Puerto Rico that advocates to continue as a Commonwealth of the United States with self-governance. [ a ] [ b ] The party was founded in 1938 by dissidents from the Puerto Rican Liberal Party and the Unionist Party and originally promoted policies ...
Manuel José Estrada Cabrera (21 November 1857 – 24 September 1924) was the President of Guatemala from 1898 to 1920. A lawyer with no military background, he modernised the country's industry and transportation infrastructure, via granting concessions to the American-owned United Fruit Company, whose influence on the government was deeply unpopular among the population.
Democratic Centre (identified electorally as Democratic Centre – Strong Hand, Big Heart; Spanish: Centro Democrático – Mano firme, corazón grande) is a conservative [12] political party in Colombia founded in 2013 by Álvaro Uribe, former President of Colombia, former Vice President Francisco Santos Calderón and former Minister of Finance and Public Credit Óscar Iván Zuluaga. [13]
Four years earlier, in 1982, De la Madrid had already expressed admiration for Pino Suárez in his work Political Thought, writing: Pino Suárez is "The Loyal Gentleman," (Caballero de la Lealtad) exemplifying loyalty to Mexico and the Revolution—a quality that remains fully relevant as an indispensable virtue for public servants. Loyalty to ...
The Sexenio Democrático or Sexenio Revolucionario ("six democratic/revolutionary years") is a period of six years between 1868 and 1874 in the history of Spain.
The Union of the Democratic Centre (Spanish: Unión de Centro Democrático, UCD, also translated as "Democratic Centre Union") was an electoral alliance, and later political party, in Spain, existing from 1977 to 1983. It was initially led by Adolfo Suárez (1932–2014).
In 2007, UCeDe participated in the Union PRO centre-right alliance to dispute the governorship of the province of Buenos Aires, supporting the opposition formula Francisco de Narváez-Jorge Macri. Union PRO finished in third place, with 14.96% of the votes.
Un Año Más" (transl. "One More Year" ) is a ballad composed by Hernán Gallardo Pavez [ es ] . It was recorded as a Chilean cumbia song in 1977 by the Coquimbo group Los Vikings 5 [ es ] , then later in the same genre by Sonora Palacios (in 1978) and La Sonora de Tommy Rey [ es ] (in 1992).