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Under the appointed mainland officials served elected Puerto Rican ones, less powerful but much cannier about local affairs. Chief among these was Luis Muñoz Marín, the leader of the island’s dominant party, who towered over the political scene from the 1940s through the 1960s. John Gunther deemed him “the most important living Puerto Rican.”

Muñoz Marín invited Albizu to join him. The two had much in common. They were young, charismatic leaders who spoke English fluently and had attended prestigious mainland universities (Georgetown for Muñoz Marín, Harvard for Albizu). As they talked, they found that their political visions matched. Still, Muñoz Marín noticed a difference in their mot

In 1938 he launched the Partido Popular Democrático, the party he would lead until the end of his career. It campaigned on a slogan of “Bread, Land, and Liberty,” though that last term, liberty, was kept ambiguous. It resonated with the widespread resentment of colonial rule in Puerto Rico, yet it was vague enough to encompass many possibilities. M

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In 1946 the Truman administration appointed a Puerto Rican as governor, Muñoz Marín’s colleague Jesús T. Piñero. In 1948, Congress allowed Puerto Ricans to elect their own governor. Muñoz Marín won easily, and he would keep the position until 1964. Now, holding the highest political office in the colony, he could move Puerto Rico down the new polit

the Universidad Francisco Marroquín opened in January 1972 with Ayau as its first president. In his inaugural address, he proclaimed UFM’s core convictions—individual rights, truth, justice, pluralism, and democracy—which dictators and terrorists were trampling just outside the door.

En vez de hacerlo feliz, a Marta le parecía que a Carlos la Presidencia de Guatemala le había amargado la vida. Siempre andaba irritado, angustiado y sospechando intrigas y conspiraciones de todos quienes lo rodeaban.

Al igual que Marta, no muchas personas en la República Dominicana tenían conciencia clara de que, además del Generalísimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, había un Presidente de mera apariencia para satisfacer las exigencias de una careta democrática de los gringos, de quienes el régimen trujillista era hijo putativo y con los que no se llevaba nada bien