• Juan Adolfo Rieckehoff (May 20 1953 – May 11, 2021) was a Puerto Rican equestrian. He competed in the individual jumping event at the 1976 Summer Olympics...
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    Germán Rieckehoff Sampayo (February 5, 1915 – September 2, 1997) was a Puerto Rican nationalist of German descent, who served as president of the Puerto...
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    Juan Manuel Dalmau Ramírez (born July 23, 1973) is a Puerto Rican politician, attorney and a candidate for Governor of Puerto Rico for the Puerto Rican...
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    Juan Antonio Corretjer Montes (March 3, 1908 – January 19, 1985) was a Puerto Rican poet, journalist and pro-independence political activist opposing United...
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    The San Juan Nationalist revolt was one of many uprisings against United States Government rule which occurred in Puerto Rico on October 30, 1950 during...
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    Clemente Soto Vélez Griselio Torresola Antonio Vélez Alvarado Carlos Vélez Rieckehoff Olga Viscal Garriga Notable nationalists Margot Arce de Vázquez Elías...
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    Carlos Vélez Rieckehoff (November 18, 1907 – November 19, 2005) was the President of the New York chapter of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party in the...
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    and Ponce. The most notable uprisings occurred in Utuado, Jayuya, and San Juan. They were suppressed by Puerto Rican forces, assisted by US forces. In Utuado...
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    before his graduation and was expelled from school. He then went to San Juan to finish high school. Puerto Ricans became U.S. citizens as a result of...
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    Daniel Santos (singer) (category Singers from San Juan, Puerto Rico)
    ("The Fight for Puerto Rico's Independence"), which was adopted from one of Juan Antonio Corretjer's poems. In March 1946, Santos inaugurated a bar and restaurant...
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    Daniel Santos Clemente Soto Vélez Antonio Vélez Alvarado Carlos Vélez Rieckehoff Teófilo Villavicencio Marxuach Power, Margaret (May–August 2013). "Nationalism...
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  • The Albergue Olímpico Germán Rieckehoff (English: Olympic Hostel), often referred as El Albergue, is an athletic training and recreational center located...
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    and Ponce. The most notable uprisings occurred in Utuado, Jayuya, and San Juan. These were suppressed by the Puerto Rico National Guard with strong military...
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  • Francisco Matos Paoli Pedro "Davilita" Ortiz Dávila Ruth Mary Reynolds Germán Rieckehoff Helen Rodríguez Trías Hiram Rosado Isabel Rosado Isolina Rondón Vidal...
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    Campos. From an educated family, Albizu was the nephew of the danza composer Juan Morel Campos, and cousin of Puerto Rican educator Dr. Carlos Albizu Miranda...
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    she began her academic education at the University of Puerto Rico in San Juan where she earned her BA degree. In 1957 she entered the University of Puerto...
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     Argentina 8.00 27.50 35.50 19 Carlos Aguirre  Mexico 6.00 DSQ Elim. 20 Juan Rieckehoff  Puerto Rico 8.00 DSQ Elim. 21 Fernando Senderos  Mexico 11.75 did...
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    revolts in various other towns in Puerto Rico, including the capital of San Juan and the cities of Mayaguez and Arecibo, plus major confrontations in the...
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    trial, officially while attempting to escape, at Police Headquarters in San Juan. News of the assassinations spread throughout the United States and led to...
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    Clemente Soto Vélez Griselio Torresola Antonio Vélez Alvarado Carlos Vélez Rieckehoff Olga Viscal Garriga Notable nationalists Margot Arce de Vázquez Elías...
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    Rican engineer and businessman who built the Normandie Hotel, located in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Benitez Rexach was born in Vieques. In 1928, he fell in love...
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    leaders of the party were arrested and jailed at the La Princesa prison in San Juan, and later sent to the Federal prison in Atlanta. On March 21, 1937, the...
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  • Puerto Rico Olympic Committee (category Organizations based in San Juan, Puerto Rico)
    Felicio Torregrosa (1966–1973) José Enrique Arrarás (1973–1977) Germán Rieckehoff (1977–1990) Osvaldo L. Gil (1990–1991) Héctor Cardona (1991–2008) David...
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    from his job and taken by Puerto Rico Olympic Committee President German Rieckehoff Sampayo to live in Mexico for a while. Mercado was one of only three American...
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    Mar y Gaviota Later in life, Burgos became romantically involved with Dr. Juan Isidro Jimenes Grullón, a Dominican physician. According to Grullón, many...
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    monetary collections because her job kept her constantly traveling from San Juan to Ponce. After Canales joined the party, a series of increasingly hostile...
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    Guard) Reyes Rivera, Juan Rivera López, Conrado Rodríguez Figueras, Iván G. Rodríguez Méndez, Jenaro Rodríguez Rivera, Pedro Juan Rosario, Obdulio Sánchez...
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    from the party and formed the Nationalist Association of Puerto Rico in San Juan. By the 1920s there were two other pro-independence organizations in the...
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    Albizu Campos, Juan Antonio Corretjer, Luis F. Velazquez, Clemente Soto Vélez, Erasmo Velazquez, Julio H. Velazquez, Juan Gallardo Santiago, Juan Juarbe Juarbe...
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    couple. The children were the fourth-great-grandchildren of Field Marshal Don Juan Andres Daban y Busterino, who served as the Spanish-appointed Governor and...
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