Word: ricans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...list of last year's officers shows the range of nationalities that is covered in the club. The President, P. G. Quinones LL. B. '19, a Porto Rican; J. V. Manach '21, Vice-President, comes from Cuba. The Secretary, E. Noguera Unc., is a Mexican, and R. Arratia, Treasurer, is an Exchange Professor from Chile...
...entry of the United States into the world-war and the quick response on the part of the gallant little republic of Cuba naturally places the people of Porto Rico in a difficult position. It is especially embarrassing for us Porto Rican students in this country, who are enjoying the hospitality of the American people and who cherish highly the personal friendships of its citizens, to have to lie idle while our classmates and friends are making war preparations. Our apparent indifference is so apt to be misunderstood and hastily labelled ungratefulness, especially as contrasted with the action taken...
That the Latin-American peoples are lovers of liberty their history shows. Bolivar, not content with liberating his own Venezuela, likewise liberated Colombia, Bolivia, Equador and Peru. More than one Porto Rican died in the Cuban "manigua" fighting for the liberties of the sister isle. And it is this very love of liberty, I honestly believe, that has caused friction and misunderstanding between the great republic of the North and the peoples south of the Rio Grande. They believe that the rights of Colombia, Santo Domingo, or Porto Rico, are every bit as sacred as the rights of Argentina...