Puerto Rican autonomist movement

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The Puerto Rican autonomist movement was a late 19th-century political current that sought self-government for Puerto Rico within the Spanish colonial framework, laying groundwork for later struggles over the island’s political status.

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instanceOf political movement
country Spain
endCause Spanish–American War NERFINISHED
endTime 1898
followedBy 20th-century Puerto Rican independence movement
Puerto Rican statehood movement
debates over U.S. territorial status of Puerto Rico
hasGoal autonomy within the Spanish colonial framework
self-government for Puerto Rico
hasIdeology autonomism
liberalism
reformism
historicalRegion Caribbean NERFINISHED
influencedBy 19th-century autonomist currents in the Spanish Empire
Cuban autonomist movement NERFINISHED
Spanish liberalism
language Spanish
legacy laid groundwork for later struggles over Puerto Rico’s political status
locatedIn Puerto Rico
opposedBy Puerto Rican annexationists
Puerto Rican independence movement
Spanish centralist conservatives
opposedTo direct colonial rule from Madrid
partOf Spanish Empire NERFINISHED
politicalProgram creation of an insular parliament for Puerto Rico
local control over internal administration
representation of Puerto Rico in the Spanish Cortes
positionOnIndependence generally rejected immediate independence from Spain
positionOnSovereignty favored internal self-government while maintaining Spanish sovereignty
relatedTo Cuban autonomist movement
Spanish colonial reforms of the 1890s NERFINISHED
result granting of limited self-government to Puerto Rico in 1897
significantEvent Carta Autonómica of Puerto Rico (1897) NERFINISHED
La Torre dictatorship repression (1887) in Puerto Rico NERFINISHED
Pact of Zanjón (1878) context of liberalization in Spain
founding of the Partido Autonomista Puertorriqueño (1887)
significantOrganization Partido Autonomista Puertorriqueño NERFINISHED
Partido Liberal Autonomista NERFINISHED
significantPerson Federico Degetau NERFINISHED
José Celso Barbosa NERFINISHED
José Julián Acosta NERFINISHED
Luis Muñoz Rivera NERFINISHED
Román Baldorioty de Castro NERFINISHED
startTime 1860s
timePeriod late 19th century

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Luis Muñoz Rivera movement Puerto Rican autonomist movement
Luis Muñoz Rivera movement Puerto Rican autonomist movement
this entity surface form: Puerto Rican self-government movement
Muñoz Marín movement Puerto Rican autonomist movement
subject surface form: Luis Muñoz Marín
this entity surface form: Puerto Rican autonomism