Puerto Ricans are the people of Puerto Rico,the inhabitants,and citizens of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and their descendants.
Sila María Calderón Serra is a Puerto Rican politician,businesswoman,and philanthropist who was the governor of Puerto Rico from 2001 to 2005. She is the first woman elected to that office. Prior to her term as governor,Calderón held various positions in the government of Puerto Rico,including the 12th Secretary of State of Puerto Rico from 1988 to 1989,and Chief of Staff to Governor Rafael Hernández Colón. She was also mayor of San Juan,the capital of Puerto Rico,from 1997 to 2001.
Mercedita International Airport is a public use international airport located three nautical miles (6 km) east of the central business district of Ponce,Puerto Rico. The airport covers 270 cuerdas of land and has one runway. It was inaugurated as an international airport on 1 November 1990. It was built with combined funds from the Municipality of Ponce and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
Mona is the third-largest island of the Puerto Rican archipelago,after the main island of Puerto Rico and Vieques. It is the largest of three islands in the Mona Passage,a strait between the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico,the others being Monito Island and Desecheo Island. It measures about 7 miles by 4 miles,and lies 41 mi (66 km) west of Puerto Rico,of which it is administratively a part. It is one of two islands that make up the Isla de Mona e Islote Monito barrio in the municipality of Mayagüez.
Victor Manuel Rocha is a former American diplomat and the former United States Ambassador to Bolivia. In December 2023,Rocha was charged with acting as an illegal agent of Cuba.
Claro Puerto Rico is one of the largest telecommunications services company in Puerto Rico. It is headquartered in Guaynabo,Puerto Rico,and has operated for almost a century offering voice,data,long distance,broadband,directory publishing and wireless services for the island residents and businesses. It was founded by the Behn brothers,Sosthenes and Hernan. Originally,Puerto Rico Telephone Company eventually spawned ITT Corporation,which was founded by Sosthenes Behn. The company was a public corporation of the government of Puerto Rico for many years until the majority stakes were acquired by GTE in the mid-1990s. It was a subsidiary of Verizon Communications until it was fully acquired by América Móvil in 2007.
Alberto Miguel Fernandez is a Cuban-American former diplomat. He was the head of the Middle East Broadcasting Networks (MBN),which includes Alhurra. Fernandez is currently vice president of the Middle East Media Research Institute,a position he held 2015-2017. He is a member of the Madrid Forum,an international group of right-wing and far-right individuals organized by Vox.
Dominican Republic passports are issued to citizens of the Dominican Republic to travel outside the country. Along with Cuba and Haiti,the Dominican Republic passport is considered the weakest passport in Latin America for traveling.
Carlos Morales Troncoso was Vice President of the Dominican Republic from 1986 to 1994 and its foreign minister from 2004 to 2014.
Trailer Bridge,Inc. is a freight service company headquartered in Jacksonville,Florida. They offer international and domestic shipping with primary international calls to San Juan,Puerto Rico and Puerto Plata,Dominican Republic.
Dominican Republic–United States relations are bilateral relations between the Dominican Republic and the United States of America. There are around 200,000 Americans expats in the Dominican Republic,and a little over 2 million Dominicans live in the United States.
Casimiro Berenguer Padilla was a Puerto Rican nationalist. He was the military instructor of the Cadets of the Republic who received permission from Ponce Mayor Tormos Diego to celebrate a parade on March 21,1937,in commemoration of the abolition of slavery and to protest the jailing of its leaders,including Pedro Albizu Campos. The parade resulted in the police riot known as the Ponce massacre.
James Walter Brewster Jr.,commonly known as Wally Brewster,served as the United States Ambassador to the Dominican Republic. He was unanimously confirmed by the Senate of the United States on November 14,2013. Brewster was the first person in a same-sex marriage to represent the United States at the ambassadorial level in the Americas. He left office on January 20,2017. Ambassador Brewster currently serves as a Principal for Insignias Global,an international political and brand advisory firm. He also serves on the Advisory Board for the Atlantic Council,Parliamentarians for Global Action and the National Democratic institute.
Carolyn Patricia "Pat" Alsup is a diplomat and former United States Ambassador to the Gambia. She was nominated by President Barack Obama on June 8,2015,and confirmed by the Senate on October 8,2015.
James D. Pettit is an American diplomat,who served as United States Ambassador to Moldova in 2015–2018. He was nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the Senate. Pettit was sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Moldova on January 16,2015. He presented his credentials to President Nicolae Timofti on January 30,2015.
Dominican Republic–India relations are the international relations that exist between the Dominican Republic and India. The Dominican Republic maintains an embassy in New Delhi. Since January 2022,India maintains an embassy in Santo Domingo.
Stephen Whitfield Swindal is an American businessman. He is the chairman of Port Tampa Bay. Swindal was a general partner of the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball from 1998 through 2007,and in 2005 had been chosen as George Steinbrenner's successor as head of the Yankees.
