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Ramón Emeterio Betances

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Ramon Emeterio Betances por Cesar Gabriel Ramos

 

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BlackFacts.com: Caribbean Revolutionaries - Ramón Emeterio Betances (Puerto Rico)

 

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Un libro rinde homenaje a José Martí y Ramón Emeterio Betances

 

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Presencias presenta: "El Antillano" (Documental sobre Ramón Emeterio Betances)

Ramón Emeterio Betances y Alacán was a Puerto Rican nationalist. He was the primary instigator of the Grito de Lares revolution and is considered to be the father of the Puerto Rican independence movement. Since the Grito galvanized a burgeoning nationalist movement among Puerto Ricans, Betances is also considered "El Padre de la Patria". Because of his charitable deeds for people in need, he also became known as "El Padre de los Pobres".
  • Personal 

  • Ancestry 

  • Primary education 

  • Legal "whitening" of family 

  • Medicine studies 

  • Cholera epidemic of 1856 

  • Abolitionist 

  • ''La vièrge de Boriquén'' (The ''Boriquén'' Virgin) 

  • Doctor and surgeon 

  • Exile in the Dominican Republic 

  • Second return to Mayagüez 

  • Simplicia Jiménez 

  • Seeds for revolt in Puerto Rico 

  • Organizer of the Grito de Lares 

  • The Ten Commandments of Free Men 

  • The ''Grito'' and its aftermath 

  • In New York 

  • In Hispaniola 

  • Return to France 

  • Diplomat for the Dominican Republic 

  • Support for Cuba's independence and José Maceo's freedom 

  • Betances and Máximo Gómez 

  • Betances and José Martí 

  • Betances and Tomás Estrada Palma 

  • The ''Intentona de Yauco'' 

  • The Cánovas Affair 

  • Legion of Honor award 

  • Efforts to counter the U.S. annexation of Puerto Rico 

  • Death 

  • In the United States 

  • In Puerto Rico 

  • In the Greater Antilles 

  • Medical 

  • Literary 

  • Major works 

  • Secondary sources