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Puerto Rico Mio:
Four
Decades of Change
by Jack Delano
(Photographer)
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The pages of this pictorial opus expresses the legacy, struggle, beauty, misery, joy
of Puerto Rico of days past. Second, third generation Puerto Ricans will reconnect
with their roots page by page. This is surely an enlighting photo memoir of our
People, the images speak louder then words. The power of photograph comes to light in
these pages, and Delano did it so well. Delano saves the spirit of Puerto Rico's past,
once thought to be lost with faded memories. This is a book to keep for oneself, it
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The USA
Invasion in Ponce 1898 |
 venthough
the US had placed a naval blockade a few weeks earlier, there was no
shooting until May 12, 1898... when Adm. William Sampson blessed the
southern part of Puerto Rico with a rain of torpedoes that would
last only three hours.
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This photo depicts the US troops after landing in Ponce, in what the
newspapers call "a picnic war". From the casualties inflicted to
both sides, about 157, only a small number (less than 20%) were by
actual combat. Many deaths were attributed to lack of medical
attention due to diseases acquired during the course of the
relatively short war.
olitical cartoon like this one published in 1898, shows a cynical
but not inaccurate view of how Puerto Ricans received the "invader"
USA. The great Puerto Rican historian Francisco Scarano, in his
exquisite book 'Puerto Rico - Cinco Siglos de Historia'
(McGraw-Hill) comments on how joyous was the reception by the many
local communities... "with cordial enthusiasm that verged into
carnival-like happiness...what the mayor of Yauco called 'a
miracle intervention by the God of the just'."
One has to remember that the Spanish ruled the Island despotically
and with an iron fist, to put it mildly. Just eleven years earlier,
in what history calls "The Terrible Year of 1887", one
Spanish governor, Romualdo Palacio was so mean that he instituted a
series of "compontes" or tortures to those who boycotted Spain's
monopoly on merchant goods. Some of these included hanging men by
their genitals (ouch!) and drowning their heads in "letrinas"
(outhouses).
 
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40s. JIBAROS.COM needs
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Puerto Rico Mio:
Four
Decades of Change
by Jack Delano
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