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  2. Ponce massacre - Wikipedia

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    Puerto RicanNationalist Party. The Ponce massacre was an event that took place on Palm Sunday, March 21, 1937, in Ponce, Puerto Rico, when a peaceful civilian march turned into a police shooting in which 17 civilians and two policemen were killed, [ 6] and more than 200 civilians wounded. None of the civilians were armed and most of the dead ...

  3. Antonio Correa Cotto - Wikipedia

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    Correa Cotto was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, on November 24, 1916.His parents were Raimundo Correa Martínez and Angela Coto García. He began his criminal career as a child and, by the time he was a teenager, he had amassed a long criminal police record.

  4. José N. Gándara - Wikipedia

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    José N. Gándara Cartagena was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, on 26 August 1907. He was the son of Manuel Gándara and Mercedes Cartagena [1] Gandara graduated from Ponce High School in 1925. [1] After this, he went to college graduating from the Long Island College of Medicine in 1933 and did his internship in the Ponce Presbyterian Hospital the ...

  5. Enrique "Coco" Vicéns - Wikipedia

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    Rank. Captain. Battles/wars. Korean War. Enrique "Coco" Alberto Vicéns Sastre (3 September 1926 – 6 March 2015) was a Puerto Rican professional basketball player that also served as senator-at-large in the Puerto Rico State Legislature from 1973 until 1978. [3] He played for the Leones de Ponce basketball team [4] and was also a volleyball ...

  6. José Tormos Diego - Wikipedia

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    José Valentin Tormos Diego (2 November 1890 – 24 August 1977) was a Puerto Rican politician and Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, from 1937 to 1941.He is best remembered for under his administration the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party received a permit for a peaceful march, which resulted in the Ponce massacre by Insular Police under authority supplied by US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to ...

  7. José G. Tormos Vega - Wikipedia

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    José Guillermo Tormos Vega (born 23 February 1925 [1] ), known as Joselín, was a Puerto Rican politician and Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico from 2 January 1977 to 22 February 1984. [2] Tormos Vega is credited with establishing, during his term as mayor, Centro Ceremonial Indígena de Tibes as a museum. [3]

  8. Rafael Cordero Santiago - Wikipedia

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    Rafael Cordero Santiago (24 October 1942 – 17 January 2004), better known as "Churumba", was the Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, from 1989 to 2004.Many considered him as a synonym of Ponce, being baptized as "El León Mayor" (Spanish for "The Greatest Lion"), an allusion to the city's official symbol, the lion.

  9. Carlos J. Garay Villamil - Wikipedia

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    1908 - 1980. Known for. Last and longest-serving coachman in Puerto Rico. Carlos Juan Garay Villamil (b. Ponce, Puerto Rico; 12 April 1881) was a long-serving coachman in Ponce, Puerto Rico, and Ponce's last one. Together with his horse-drawn carriage, he is considered an icon of the city of Ponce. [1] He was "inmortalized" [2] by the city and ...

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