Commander Manuel Rojas, Puerto Rican-Venezuelan commander of the Puerto Rican Liberation Army, was one of the main leaders of the Grito de Lares uprising against Spanish rule in Puerto Rico.
The Dominican Republic national baseball team is the national baseball team of the Dominican Republic. The team has won the Baseball World Cup in 1948 and World Baseball Classic in 2013. They are the first team to have won both world competitions. They are currently ranked the 12th best in the world by the World Baseball Softball Confederation.
The Puerto Rico national baseball team is the national baseball team of Puerto Rico. The men's senior team is currently ranked 11th in the world, while its women's counterpart is 12th.
Claro Puerto Rico is 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 brothers Behn, 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.
Dueña y Señora is a Puerto Rican telenovela based on La Dueña. It is produced by Telemundo Puerto Rico and Puerto Rico Vibra Inc., which intends to market it to the United States' Spanish-speaking residents as well.
The Arctiini are a tribe of tiger moths in the family Erebidae.
The Captaincy General of Puerto Rico was an administrative district of the Spanish Empire, created in 1580 to provide better military management of the island of Puerto Rico, previously under the direct rule of a simple governor and the jurisdiction of Audiencia of Santo Domingo. Its creation was part of the, ultimately futile, Habsburg attempt in the late 16th century to prevent incursion into the Caribbean by foreign powers. Spain also established Captaincies General in Cuba, Guatemala and Yucatán.
Opharus is a genus of arctiine tussock moths in the family Erebidae.
The 2008 America Baseball Cup was held in the Venezuelan cities of Puerto Ordaz and El Tigre, from September 26 to October 7. The tournament acted as a qualifier for the 2009 World Cup.
Proteides is a Neotropical genus of spread-winged skipper butterflies in the family Hesperiidae.
María de las Mercedes Barbudo was a Puerto Rican political activist, the first woman Independentista in the island, and a "Freedom Fighter". At the time, the Puerto Rican independence movement had ties with the Venezuelan rebels led by Simón Bolívar.
Atlantea is a genus of butterflies from the Caribbean in the family Nymphalidae.
Ganyra josephina, the giant white, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found from southern Texas through Mexico and Central America to northern South America. The habitat consists of open, dry, subtropical forests.
Eurema portoricensis, the Puerto Rican yellow, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in Puerto Rico.
Football was contested for men only at the 1959 Central American and Caribbean Games in Caracas, Venezuela.
Gabriela Berríos Pagán is a Puerto Rican model and beauty pageant titleholder. She represented Toa Baja municipality at Miss Universe Puerto Rico 2014 and represented Puerto Rico at Miss Universe 2014 held in Doral, USA. She also represented Puerto Rico at Miss International 2016 in Japan.
Catajana is a monotypic moth genus in the family Eupterotidae described by Embrik Strand in 1910. Its only species, Catajana bimaculata, described by Hermann Dewitz in 1879, is found in Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification (Americas) process determined the seven Americas teams that will participate at the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup. It was held from November 2017 to February 2019.
The 1982 Big League World Series took place from August 14–21 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States. Puerto Rico defeated Venezuela in the championship game.
The sailing competition at the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games was held from 19 to 25 July at the Marina de Puerto Velero in Tubará, Colombia.
