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Denis's history book War Against All Puerto Ricans, about the evolution of US-Puerto Rico relations since 1898, was the best-selling book in Puerto Rico in 2015 and 2016. [27] José Luis González (1926-1996) whose work País de cuatro pisos y otros ensayos describes the rigid structures of island society. [28]
In 2010, her book, Puerto Rico Por Encima de Todo: Vida y Obra de Antonio R. Barcelo, 1868–1938, was recognized among the best in the category of "research and criticism" and awarded a first place prize by the Ateneo Puertorriqueño. [21] Francisco Arriví, writer, poet, and playwright. Arriví is known as "The Father of the Puerto Rican ...
Poverty incidence of Puerto Galera 10 20 30 40 50 2000 46.53 2003 25.64 2006 35.40 2009 23.88 2012 11.00 2015 7.89 2018 13.25 2021 16.21 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority Port of Puerto Galera The traditional economy of the city used to be fishing and subsistence agriculture, but with the boom of tourism at the end of the 1970s, the service sector became more and more important and led ...
Nicholasa Mohr (born November 1, 1938) is one of the best known Nuyorican writers, born in the United States to Puerto Rican parents. [1] [2] [3] In 1973, she became the first Nuyorican woman in the 20th century to have her literary works published by the major commercial publishing houses, and has had the longest creative writing career of any Nuyorican female writer for these publishing ...
María Bibiana Benítez (1783–1873), Puerto Rico's first female poet, playwright Giannina Braschi (born 1953), novelist, poet, essayist, playwright Julia de Burgos (1914–1953), acclaimed poet, activist
[25] [26] The book was written in an era of renewed calls for English-only laws, ethnic cleansing campaigns, and corporate censorship. [27] " For decades, Dominican and Puerto Rican authors have carried out a linguistic revolution", noted The Boston Globe , "and Giannina Braschi, especially in her novel Yo-Yo Boing! , testify to it".
In 1963, the New York Daily News ran stories about an underground, word-of-mouth network of doctors in Puerto Rico who performed abortions on American women, from “suburban society matrons” to ...
Latin Media House, LLC acquired the assets of Casiano Communications Inc. (CCI) effective November 2, 2015 from Chapter 11 at the US Bankruptcy Court.The original company was founded in 1973, by Manuel A. Casiano, who died on May 19, 2017, at the age of 86.