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On December 27, 2019, the Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP) filed its list of candidates for the general election, including Sen. Juan Dalmau as governor. [5] Dalmau previously ran as the PIP candidate in the 2012 Puerto Rico gubernatorial election .
Before the arrival of the Europeans to Puerto Rico, Puerta de Tierra (along with Old San Juan) formed part of a smaller islet which was populated by the Taíno.Remains of a small indigenous fishing village have been found where the Puerto Rico National Guard Museum stands today, however most archaeological sites in the area have been destroyed and lost during the construction of the Muñoz ...
El Imparcial, founded in 1918, was "an anti-Popular, pro-Independence tabloid" in Puerto Rico. It circulated daily, except Sundays. Its full name was El Imparcial: El diario ilustrado de Puerto Rico. El Imparcial was given new life in 1933 under the leadership of Antonio Ayuso Valdivieso.
On March 20, 2022, during the New Progressive Party's general assembly, governor Pedro Pierluisi announced that he would run for a second term. [1] In an interview on August 28, he reaffirmed the press that he would be in fact running again, stating that "Puerto Rico is moving forward and there is no one who can stop us" and that they were "going to beat the PDP". [2]
Founded by journalist and economist Gaspar Roca El Vocero looked to become a crime oriented tabloid, however in the late 1980s after the closing of El Mundo, El Vocero looked to become a mainstream newspaper by adding legitimate news articles and well known columnists. In April 2007, Roca died and his son Miguel Roca took over leadership of El ...
On Monday, June 21, 2021, a problem with unit #5 in Central de San Juan power generation station caused a power relay to leave 45,349 without electrical service, most of them in the Ponce area. [25] The power outage crisis caused one of the island's major shopping centers, Plaza del Caribe in Ponce, to close on June 22, 2021, due to a blackout.
In 1974, the Pinaglabanan Shrine was unveiled in San Juan, along Pinaglabanan Street. "Pinaglabanan" is a Tagalog word for "fought over". The present-day San Juan Elementary School stands on the former grounds of the ruined El Polvorín. [12] In 2006, a museum for the Katipunan was opened by the San Juan city government located by the shrine. [13]
Cruceta del Vigía (English: The Watchman Cross) is a 100 feet (30 m) tall cross located atop Cerro del Vigía in Ponce, Puerto Rico, across from Museo Castillo Serrallés. It houses a tourist center at its base, a ten-story vertical tower, and a horizontal sky bridge that has panoramic views of the city of Ponce and the Caribbean Sea .