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fuckyeahlatinamericanhistory:

Ramón Emeterio Betances, who died on September 16, 1898, was a Puerto Rican nationalist and the primary instigator of the Grito de Lares revolution. He is considered one of the fathers of the Puerto Rican independence movement. 

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univisionnews:

The Saint Patrick battalion was made up mostly of Irish soldiers who deserted the U.S. Army to fight for Mexico.

By QUENTIN PINOTEAU

In Mexico, September is known as the patriotic month, or el mes patrio which culminates on the 15^th with the national…

Militia uniform, 1862. Puerto Rico.

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unaguerrasinfondo:

Decolonize Geography : Caribbean

Jamaica -  Xaymaca (Taíno-Arawak)

Puerto Rico - Borikén or Borinquen (Taíno, meaning “Land of the Valiant Lord”)

Haiti/Dominican Republic - Haití (Taíno, meaning “Tall Mountain”. term referred to a region located on the island of Hispaniola and may have also been used to refer to the entire island.) 

Bahamas - Ba-ha-ma (possible Lucayan origen, meaning ‘large mupper middle land’) or Lucayo (Taíno name for Bahama islands and inhabitants.)

Cuba - Caobana (Taíno, meaning “Great Place”)

Grenada - Camerhogne (Kalinago)

Carriacou - Kayryoüacou or Cariouwacou (Kalinago, meaning ‘Island surrounded by reefs’)

Trinidad - Lëre or Lele (Kalinago meaning ‘Land of the Humingbird’)

Tobago - Tobago (Kalinago)

Barbados - Ichirouganami (Arawak)

Dominica - Wai’tu kubuli (Kalinago, meaning “Tall is her body”)

Martinique - Madinina (Kalinago, meaning “Land of Flowers”)

St. Lucia - Hiwanarau (Kalinago, meaning “Land of the Iguana”)

St. Vincent - Hairoun (Kalinago, meaning “Land of the Blessed”)

Bequia - Becoua (Kalinago, meaning “Land of the Clouds”)

Canouan - Cannouan (Kalinago, meaning “Island of Turtles”)

Anguilla - Malliouhana (Arawak, meaning Arrow-Shaped Sea Serpent)

St. Martin - Soualiga (Arawak, meaning “Land of Salt”)

St. Barths - Ouanalao (Arawak)

Saba - Amonhana (Arawak)

St. Eustatious - Aloi (Arawak)

Saint Crioux - Ay Ay (Taíno)

Saint Kitts - Liamuiga (Kalinago, meaning “Fertile Land”)

Nevis - Oualle (Kalinago)

Montserrat - Alliouagana (Kalinago, meaning “Land of Prickly Bush”)

Barbuda - Wa’omoni (Kalinago)

Antigua - Wadadli (Kalinago, “Land of Fish Oil”)

Redonda - Ocananmanrou (Kalinago)

Guadeloupe - Karukera (Kalinago)

Marie-Galante - Aichi (Kalinago) or Touloukaera (Arawak)

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fyeah-history:

Militia woman, Spanish Civil War, c.1936-39

aaaaaaahhhhh!! ¿que carajo te importa cabrón??

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centuriespast:

UNKNOWN MASTER, Catalan
Tomb of Don Sancho Saiz de Carillo (detail)
c. 1300
Tempera on wood, 51 x 86 cm
Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona

fuckyeahlatinamericanhistory:

Today In Latin American History

Puerto Rican poet and independence activist José de Diego was born in Aguadillas on April 16, 1866.

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frenchhistory:

Quart de cercle de Jonathan Sisson. Laiton, 1742. Classé monument historique. Dépôt de l’Université Claude-Bernard Lyon 1 (Observatoire astronomique de Saint-Genis-Laval). Employé par Jérôme de Lalande pour la première déterminiation précise de la distance Terre-Lune en 1751. Exposé au Musée gallo-romain de Fourvière, Lyon

Quarter of a circle used by Jérôme de Lalande to measure the distance between the earth and the moon in 1751.

@credits

Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande (11 July 1732 – 4 April 1807) was a French astronomer and writer.

fuckyeahlatinamericanhistory:

US Senator Joseph B. Foraker (1846-1917), one-time governor of Ohio, is the namesake of the Foraker Act of 1900, which established a civilian government in Puerto Rico following the US takeover of the island after the Spanish-American War. 

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afacethatsunk1000ships:

circeserene:

Why I love my degree. 

**Edit** I didn’t create this version, it was given as an example during our course work a few years back. As a response to the FB account, I made finger puppets and re-enacted the assassination of Philip II during a study session.  

Esto es la hostia. 

"Today’s gap between North and South—the rich developed societies and the rest of the world—was largely created by the global conquest.
Scholarship and science are beginning to recognize a record that had been concealed by imperial arrogance. They are discovering that at the time of the arrival of the Europeans, and long before, the Western hemisphere was home to some of the world’s most advanced civilizations. In the poorest country of South America, archaeologists are coming to believe that eastern Bolivia was the site of a wealthy, sophisticated, and complex society of perhaps a million people. In their words, it was the site of “one of the largest, strangest, and most ecologically rich artificial environments on the face of the planet, with causeways and canals, spacious and formal towns and considerable wealth,” creating a landscape that was “one of humankind’s greatest works of art, a masterpiece.” In the Peruvian Andes, by 1491 the Inka had created the greatest empire in the world, greater in scale than the Chinese, Russian, Ottoman, or other empires, far greater than any European state, and with remarkable artistic, agricultural, and other achievements."

Hopes and Prospects, Noam Chomsky (via socialuprooting)

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h-e-a-r-t-b-e-a-t-i-n-g:

Don Pedro Albizo Campos, procer puertorriqueno, al que, por sus ideales de patriotismo y libertad, los federales lo apresaron, torturaron con radiacion y asesinaron, y hasta el dia de hoy, su familia pide exhumar su cuerpo para comprobar las causas de su muerte y el gobierno estadounidense no quiere acceder. 

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