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A street in Moca barrio-pueblo, August 2006. Moca is located on the northwest part of the island on the northern karst region of Puerto Rico. [7]Climate: Tropical with hardly noticeable seasonal changes, temperatures in Moca range from highs of between76 and 98 °F (24 and 37 °C) and lows between 50 and 75 °F (10 and 24 °C).
Protestantismo Evangélico y Política en Puerto Rico: 1898-1930 Volumen I(Editorial Universidad de P. R., four editions, 1997, 1998, 2005, 2023). Catolicismo y política en Puerto Rico bajo España y Estados Unidos: siglos XIX y XX (Editorial Universidad de Puerto Rico, 2005).
Luis Manuel Irizarry Pabón was born on 12 November 1958 [3] in Ponce, Puerto Rico. His parents were Félix Irizarry and Carmen Lydia Pabón. [3] [5] A graduate of the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, [3] [5] Irizarry Pabón was an internal medicine physician prior to becoming Ponce's mayor-elect in November 2020. [6]
Puerto Rico [i] (Spanish for 'rich port'; abbreviated PR), [15] officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, [b] [j] is a Caribbean island, Commonwealth, and unincorporated territory of the United States.
The 2006 Puerto Rico budget crisis was a political, economic, and social crisis that saw much of the government of Puerto Rico shut down after it ran out of funds near the end of the 2005–2006 fiscal year. The shut down lasted for two weeks from 1 May 2006 through 14 May 2006, leaving nearly 100,000 public employees without pay and closing ...
General elections were held in Puerto Rico on November 3, 1964. [1] Roberto Sánchez Vilella of the Popular Democratic Party (PPD) was elected Governor, whilst the PPD's Santiago Polanco-Abreu was elected Resident Commissioner.
By time the Great Depression arrived in 1929, working class Puerto Rican citizens, especially rural agricultural laborers, were already facing economic hardship. After Spain ceded sovereignty of Puerto Rico to the United States following the 1898 Spanish–American War the island increasingly became economically dependent on the United States through an unbalanced colonial trade relationship ...
Sila Calderón Serra was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico on September 23, 1942, to entrepreneur César Augusto Calderón and Sila Serra Jesús. Her maternal grandfather Miguel Serra Joy emigrated from Mallorca, Balearic Islands to Puerto Rico in the late 19th century which granted Calderón Spanish citizenship in 2012. [1]