A police shooting of two activists who had planned to sabotage a communications installation in this polity caused a major electoral uproar in 1980.
A police shooting of two activists who had planned to sabotage a communications installation in this polity caused a major electoral uproar in 1980. Blanton Winship demanded a last-minute permit withdrawal for a march here on Palm Sunday, leading to the deaths of twenty-one people protesting the detention of a figure known as "El Maestro." This site of the Cerro Maravilla incident and Ponce Massacre transitioned from an agricultural to manufacturing-based economy during Operation (*) Bootstrap. Luis Munoz Marin helped this subject of the Foraker Act secure the repeal of the later Jones Act, an effort was supported by then-Governor Rexford Tugwell. The Jayuya uprising led nationalists from here to fire on Harry Truman in 1950, shortly before it formalized its relationship as an unincorporated U.S. territory. For 10 points, name this Carribean island with capital at San Juan, often called the "51st state."
A police shooting of two activists who had planned to sabotage a communications installation in this polity caused a major electoral uproar in 1980.
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico [or Associated Free State of Puerto Rico; or Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico]