Angel Morey Santiago served as chief of staff to Puerto Rico governor Pedro Rosselló,from 1995 to 2001. [1] He also served as Rosselló's third and last Secretary of State from 1999 to 2001, [2] appointed after Norma Burgos resigned,following her nomination as candidate for Senator-at large.
A businessman and lifelong personal friend of the Governor,he returned to the private sector after his six years stint in public service. He is a member of Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity. He is the father of current legislator Ángel Morey Noble.
Pedro Juan RossellóGonzález is a Puerto Rican physician and politician who served as the governor of Puerto Rico from 1993 to 2001. He was President of the New Progressive Party from 1991 to 1999 and 2003 to 2008,and served as Senator for the District of Arecibo from 2005 to 2008. His son,Ricardo,was also Governor of Puerto Rico from 2017 to 2019.
The New Progressive Party is a political party in Puerto Rico that advocates for statehood. The PNP is one of the two major parties in Puerto Rico with significant political strength and currently holds both the seat of the governor and of the resident commissioner.
The governor of Puerto Rico is the head of government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico,and commander-in-chief of the Puerto Rico National Guard. Currently,Jenniffer González-Colón is serving as the 190th governor of the archipelago and island.
The House of Representatives of Puerto Rico is the lower house of the Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico,the bicameral territorial legislature of Puerto Rico. The House,together with the Senate,control the legislative branch of the government of Puerto Rico.
Baltasar Corrada del Río was a Puerto Rican politician. He held various high political offices in the island,including President of the Puerto Rico Civil Rights Commission,Resident Commissioner (1977–1985),Mayor of the capital city of San Juan (1985–1989),Puerto Rico's 15th Secretary of State (1993–1995) and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (1995–2005). He was also the unsuccessful NPP candidate for Governor in the elections of 1988.
Luis Guillermo Fortuño Burset is a Puerto Rican politician who served as the governor of Puerto Rico,an unincorporated territory of the United States,from 2009 to 2013.
Thomas Rivera Schatz is a Puerto Rican politician,legal advisor,attorney,and former prosecutor,who was the fourteenth,sixteenth and is expected to be the eighteenth President of the Senate of Puerto Rico. He is affiliated with New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico and the mainland Republican Party.
Kenneth Davison McClintock-Hernández is a politician who served as the twenty-second Secretary of State of Puerto Rico,one of the four longest serving in that post. McClintock served as co-chair of Hillary Clinton’s National Hispanic Leadership Council in 2008,he co-chaired her successful Puerto Rico primary campaign that year and served as the Thirteenth President of the Senate of Puerto Rico until December 31,2008. He chaired Luis Fortuño’s Incoming Committee on Government Transition in 2008 and the Outgoing Committee on Government Transition in 2012,the first Puerto Rican to serve in both capacities. He was sworn into office as secretary of state on January 2,2009,by Chief Justice Federico Hernández Denton,fulfilling the role of lieutenant governor in the islands. He was appointed by Governor Pedro Pierluisi as a member of the Civil Rights Commission on February 8,2024,a nomination pending Senate confirmation.
The Dr. Pedro RossellóGonzález Puerto Rico Convention Center (PRCC),or simply Puerto Rico Convention Center,is a convention center located in Isla Grande,in San Juan,Puerto Rico owned by the Puerto Rico Convention Center District Authority,a government agency of Puerto Rico,and managed by ASM Global. With a total space of 600,000-square-foot and designed by tvsdesign,it is the largest convention center in the Caribbean and one of the most technologically advanced in the Americas.
General elections were held in Puerto Rico on Tuesday,November 4,2008,to elect the officials of the government that would serve for the next four years,most notably the Governor of Puerto Rico.
Pedro Rafael Pierluisi Urrutia is a Puerto Rican politician and lawyer who served as the Governor of Puerto Rico from 2021 to 2025,having previously been the de facto governor from August 2–7,2019. A member of New Progressive and Democratic Parties,he previously served as acting Secretary of State of Puerto Rico in 2019,as Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico from 2009 to 2017,and as Secretary of Justice of Puerto Rico from 1993 to 1997. He was formerly a private attorney for Puerto Rico's fiscal oversight board under the Puerto Rico Oversight,Management,and Economic Stability Act.
Carmen Ana Culpeper-Ramírez served as the first female Secretary of the Puerto Rico Department of the Treasury during the administration of Governor Carlos Romero Barceló. During the governorship of Pedro Rosselló,she served as the president of the then government-owned Puerto Rico Telephone Company.
Aníbal Salvador Acevedo Vilá is a Puerto Rican politician and lawyer who served as the governor of Puerto Rico from 2005 to 2009.
Ricardo Antonio RossellóNevares is a Puerto Rican politician who served as Governor of Puerto Rico from 2017 until his resignation in 2019,after overwhelming protests related to the Telegramgate scandal. He is the son of former governor of Puerto Rico and pediatric surgeon Pedro Rosselló.
JoséRodríguez Suárez,a co-founder of the Puerto Rico Statehood Students Association,is the longest-serving Deputy Secretary of State of Puerto Rico,having served under two governors,Pedro Rossellóand Luis Fortuño,and four Secretaries of State of Puerto Rico,Baltasar Corrada del Río,Norma Burgos and Angel Morey between 1993 and 2000,and Kenneth McClintock between 2009 and 2012. As such,he was charged with directing all intergovernmental and international activities of the Department during 12 of the Department's 60-year history.
General elections were held in Puerto Rico on Tuesday,November 8,2016,to elect the officials of the Puerto Rican government to serve from January 2017 to January 2021,most notably the Governor of Puerto Rico. Ricardo Rossellówas elected governor and Jenniffer González-Colón was elected Resident Commissioner. The elections saw a 23 percentage point drop in turnout and was the lowest voter turnout in Puerto Rican history.
Wanda Emilia Vázquez Garced is a Puerto Rican politician and attorney who served as the 188th Governor of Puerto Rico from 2019 to 2021. Prior to her tenure as governor,she served as the 19th Secretary of Justice from 2017 to 2019. A member of the New Progressive Party and Republican Party of Puerto Rico,Vázquez is the second female governor in Puerto Rican history,after Sila María Calderón. She was constitutionally appointed to the office following the resignation of Ricardo Roselló,and the judicial annulation of Pedro Pierluisi's short-lived government,in the aftermath of the Telegramgate Scandal. On August 16,2020,she failed to secure the New Progressive Party nomination for Governor of Puerto Rico in the 2020 elections,losing to Pedro Pierluisi.
Carlos JoséSaavedra-Gutiérrez is a Puerto Rican lawyer and current counsel at Jackson Lewis. Saavedra served in several high profile positions within the Government of Puerto Rico,including Secretary of Labor and Human Resources. Saavedra also served as Chief Legal Officer of the Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority of Puerto Rico,where he supervised and coordinated Puerto Rico's legal strategy as part of the largest bankruptcy-like municipal restructuring in the history of the United States.
Telegramgate,also known as Chatgate or RickyLeaks,was a political scandal involving Ricardo Rosselló,then Governor of Puerto Rico,which began on July 8,2019,with the leak of hundreds of pages of a group chat on the messaging application Telegram between Rossellóand members of his cabinet. The messages were considered vulgar,misogynistic,racist,and homophobic toward several individuals and groups,and discussed how they would use the media to target potential political opponents. The leak came in the midst of allegations by former Secretary of Treasury of Puerto Rico,Raúl Maldonado Gautier,that his department boasted an "institutional mafia" that Rossellówas involved in. The leaks also came a year after a previous scandal,dubbed WhatsApp Gate,involving other members of Rosselló's cabinet.