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Pro ELA – In favor of a freely associated republic status. Puerto Rican Nationalist Party. Communist party of Puerto Rico. Socialist Front – An umbrella of socialist organizations. Socialist Workers Movement – Socialist Revolutionary organization, with strong bases in the trade union and student movement.
Political party. Socialist. Santiago Iglesias Pantín (February 22, 1872 – December 5, 1939), was a Spanish-born Puerto Rican socialist and trade union activist. Iglesias is best remembered as a leading supporter of statehood for Puerto Rico, [1] [2] and as the Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico in the U.S. Congress from 1933 to 1939.
Tomo II. Historia de los Partidos Políticos Puertorriqueños (1898-1956) (English: History of the Puerto Rican Political Parties (1898-1956)) is Bolívar Pagán 's 1959 flagship two-volume set on Puerto Rico 's political parties. It covers political parties in the years since the American invasion of 1898 through the year 1956.
Background. The United States acquired the islands of Puerto Rico in 1898 after the Spanish–American War, and the archipelago has been under U.S. sovereignty since.In 1950, Congress enacted the Puerto Rico Federal Relations Act of 1950 or legislation (P.L. 81-600), authorizing Puerto Rico to hold a constitutional convention and, in 1952, the people of Puerto Rico ratified a constitution ...
e. Andrés Figueroa Cordero [note 1] (November 29, 1924 – March 7, 1979) was a political activist, member of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and an advocate of Puerto Rican independence. On March 1, 1954, with fellow Nationalists Lolita Lebrón, Irvin Flores, and Rafael Cancel Miranda, he entered the United States Capitol building armed ...
The Puerto Rican Reformist Party (Spanish: Partido Reformista Puertorriqueño) was a short-lived Puerto Rican political party. The Puerto Rican Reformist Party was founded in 1948 after the Liberal Party decided to rename themselves. Founding. After losing the 1944 resident commissioner election, the Liberal Party was on its last leg.
Politics portal. v. t. e. Partido Republicano Puertorriqueño [1] [2] (English: Puerto Rican Republican Party) was a political party founded in Puerto Rico on July 4, 1899. [3] The party dissolved in 1924 when it split into two factions, both factions forming alliances with other local parties. [4] It was led by Dr. José Celso Barbosa .
The status quo movement in Puerto Rico refers to initiatives throughout the history of Puerto Rico aimed at maintaining the current political status of Puerto Rico, that of a commonwealth of the United States . Puerto Rico is currently an unincorporated territory of the United States. As a Commonwealth, Puerto Rico receives less in federal ...