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María de las Mercedes Barbudo (1773 – February 17, 1849) was a Puerto Rican political activist, the first woman Independentista in the island, and a "Freedom Fighter". [2] [3] At the time, the Puerto Rican independence movement had ties with the Venezuelan rebels led by Simón Bolívar.
First Lady or First Gentleman Governor Date tenure began Date tenure ended Date of death (age) Notes 1 Inés Mendoza: Luis Muñoz Marín: January 2, 1949 January 2, 1965 August 13, 1990 (82) Mendoza was the second wife of Puerto Rico's first directly elected governor, Luis Muñoz Marín, whom she married in 1946. She remains the longest serving ...
Wilma Pastrana Jiménez (born January 17, 1970) is a certified public accountant and wife of the former governor of Puerto Rico, Alejandro García Padilla.Pastrana became the 13th First Lady of Puerto Rico on January 2, 2013, and took on programs to improve child education, health, and welfare on the island.
The Puerto Rican independence movement took new measures after the Free Associate State was authorized. On October 30, 1950, with the new autonomist Commonwealth status about to go into effect, multiple Nationalist uprisings occurred, in an effort to focus world attention on the Movement's dissatisfaction with the new commonwealth status.
On November 19, 1970, the Central Council of the PPD issued what became known as the Pronunciamiento de Aguas Buenas (lit. "Aguas Buenas Pronnouncement") which stated its support for a "complete self-government, founded in the free association with the United States and which permits and supports the country's cultural personality and the sustained development of its social and material progress."
Juan Dalmau, the Puerto Rican Independence Party's gubernatorial nominee, would be the first governor since the U.S. started allowing Puerto Rico to hold free gubernatorial elections in 1948 to ...
Mariana Bracetti Cuevas (also spelled Bracety) (July 26, 1825 – February 25, 1903) was a patriot and leader of the Puerto Rico independence movement.In 1868, she knitted the Grito de Lares flag that was intended to be used as the national emblem of Puerto Rico in its first of two attempts to overthrow Spanish rule, and to establish the island as a sovereign republic.
Frustration and hopelessness across the Puerto Rican electorate first began to become evident in 2016, when a record-low voter turnout of 55% was reported, an unusual milestone for an island known ...