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The plena genre originated in Barrio San Antón, Ponce, Puerto Rico, [3] [4] around 1900. [5] It was influenced by the bomba style of music. [citation needed] Originally, sung texts were not associated with the plena, which was rendered by guitar, accordion and pandero, but eventually, in 1907, [citation needed] singing was added.
The list of Puerto Rico hurricanes from the 21st century has been marked by several devastating North Atlantic hurricanes, tropical or subtropical cyclones, their remnants, or their precursors have affected the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico. Every year included has at least one tropical cyclone affecting the territory.
The newscast, titled Las Noticias Al Mediodía ('The News at Noon'), debuted December 6, 2021, at 12 p.m. and features Celimar Adames, Nuria Sebazco and Deborah Martorell, which, according to WLII, is the first all-female local news team in Puerto Rico. This edition follows a different format from the other newscasts, and features segments on ...
Salvador Agron [note 1] (April 24, 1943 – April 22, 1986), a.k.a. "The Capeman", was a Puerto Rican gang member who murdered two teenagers in a Hell's Kitchen park in 1959.
Periódico La Esquina is a newspaper in Puerto Rico which is only available in the east part of the island. See also. List of newspapers in Puerto Rico;
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.
Multiple times, politicians have discussed and proposed consolidating Puerto Rico's municipalities but so far no proposals has been adopted. In 1902 the Puerto Rico legislature, under pressure from the U.S.-appointed governor of Puerto Rico, passed a law consolidating the then-76 municipalities of Puerto Rico into 46. [25]
The term "white Puerto Rican", as well as that of "colored Puerto Rican", was coined by the United States Department of Defense in the first decade of the 20th century in order to handle their own North American problem with nonwhite people whom they were drafting and had its basis on the American one-drop rule. [6]