Puerto Rican independence movement

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The Puerto Rican independence movement is a political and social campaign that seeks to end U.S. sovereignty over Puerto Rico and establish the island as a fully independent nation.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf independence movement
political movement
social movement
aimsTo end U.S. sovereignty over Puerto Rico
establish Puerto Rico as an independent nation
emergedInPeriod late 19th century
hasHistoricalPrecursor Grito de Lares
hasIdeology Puerto Rican nationalism
anti-colonialism
self-determination
hasKeyEvent 1950 Jayuya Uprising
1950 Utuado Uprising
1954 United States Capitol shooting
Grito de Lares
Puerto Rican independence movement self-linksurface differs
surface form: Puerto Rican Nationalist Party revolts of the 1950s

United Nations decolonization hearings on Puerto Rico
Vieques protests
hasLanguage English
Spanish
hasNotableFigure Eugenio María de Hostos
Filiberto Ojeda Ríos
Gilberto Concepción de Gracia
Juan Mari Brás
Lolita Lebrón
Oscar López Rivera
Pedro Albizu Campos
Rafael Cancel Miranda
Ramón Emeterio Betances
Rubén Berríos Martínez
hasOrganization Armed Forces of National Liberation
Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña
surface form: Ejército Popular Boricua

Federación Universitaria Pro Independencia
Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña
Hostosian National Independence Movement
Puerto Rican independence movement self-linksurface differs
surface form: Movimiento Independentista Nacional Hostosiano

Puerto Rican Independence Party
Puerto Rican Nationalist Party
Puerto Rican Socialist Party
hasSymbol Lares flag
Puerto Rican flag
isAssociatedWith referendums on Puerto Rico political status
isSubjectOf United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization resolutions
operatesIn Puerto Rico
United States of America
surface form: United States
opposes United States territories
surface form: United States territorial status of Puerto Rico

colonialism
seeksChangeFrom unincorporated territory status of Puerto Rico
seeksChangeTo full sovereignty for Puerto Rico
usesTactics armed struggle (historically)
civil disobedience
electoral politics
mass protests

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Gag Law (Ley de la Mordaza) associatedWith Puerto Rican independence movement
Puerto Rican independence movement hasKeyEvent Puerto Rican independence movement self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Puerto Rican Nationalist Party revolts of the 1950s
Puerto Rican independence movement hasOrganization Puerto Rican independence movement self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Movimiento Independentista Nacional Hostosiano
Puerto Rican Revolutionary Committee movement Puerto Rican independence movement