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Sotero Figueroa Hernández
Sotero Figueroa Hernández
One of the most tireless defenders of independence for Puerto Rico under Spanish colonial rule, Sotero Figueroa was a mulatto artisan who, in addition to working as a typographer, was also a journalist, poet and playwright.
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  • Diaspora
  • 24/06/2021
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Julia De Burgos
Julia De Burgos
The contradictions and complexity of the human being, in constant social interaction, dynamic and conflicting, are some of the themes present in this writer’s poetry.
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  • Literature
  • 24/06/2021
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Rita Moreno
Rita Moreno
The only Latina woman to win the four most important prizes in the U.S. entertainment industry: an Oscar, a Grammy, an Emmy and the Antoinette Perry Award for excellence in theater.
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  • Diaspora
  • 22/06/2021
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City, architecture and colonization under Spanish rule
City, architecture and colonization under Spanish rule
The European military, spiritual and cultural conquest of the Americas had its most concrete expression in the founding of cities.
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  • Architecture
  • 01/06/2021
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Tibes Indigenous Ceremonial Center, Ponce
Tibes Indigenous Ceremonial Center, Ponce
In the Tibes area of Ponce is one of the oldest indigenous archaeological sites in the Caribbean. It consists of 12 stone structures, including ceremonial plazas, bateys and foundations, of which only nine have been restored.
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  • Archeology
  • 01/06/2021
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Rafael Hernández-Marín
Rafael Hernández-Marín
Rafael Hernández represented the ideal of the Puerto Rican professional musician in the first half of the 20th century.
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  • Music
  • 23/05/2021
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Judith Ortiz-Cofer
Judith Ortiz-Cofer
Judith Ortiz Cofer was one of the leading women writers of the Puerto Rican experience in the United States.
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  • Diaspora
  • 23/05/2021
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Juan Morel-Campos
Juan Morel-Campos
He has been called the “absolute genius of the XIX century music” and the “most prolific composer of danzas”.
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  • Music
  • 23/05/2021
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María Luisa Arcelay de la Rosa
María Luisa Arcelay de la Rosa
A leader of the Puerto Rican needlework industry in the early 20th century, she was also the first woman elected to the Puerto Rican legislature and the first female legislator in all of Latin America.
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  • Government
  • 23/05/2021
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Bernardo Vega
Bernardo Vega
The edited and published book of memoirs of Puerto Rican tabaquero (cigar worker), Bernardo Vega, who migrated from Puerto Rico to New York in 1916, when he was 30 years of age, and who lived in the city for over three and a half decades, have unveiled an important period
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  • Diaspora
  • 18/05/2021
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Objetos con historia: la Colección Teodoro Vidal Santoni
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