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Word: independentista (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...favor of a comely aide, Muñoz took over the Popular Democratic Party's drive to retain common wealth status. Ever since, he has been stumping like a young Congressman, speaking to small groups of party regulars and on radio and television. Once a hot-eyed independentista who called the U.S. an "opulent kleptomaniac," Muñoz now argues persuasively, if melodramatically: "Statehood is the vulture that would sit over the corpse of the Puerto Rican economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Puerto Rico: Pocketbook Plebiscite | 7/21/1967 | See Source »

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