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- ↑ "Perfil de alcalde Wanda Soler Rosario". Puerto Rico Decide 2016 - ENData (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 April 2020.
- ↑ "Alcalde de Barceloneta, Elecciones Generales 2012". CEEPUR. December 29, 2012.
- ↑ Gómez, Antonio R. (November 15, 2012). "Los alcaldes más poderosos". El Nuevo Día (in Spanish).
- ↑ "Alcaldes: Resultados por Municipios". CEEPUR. December 7, 2016. Retrieved January 19, 2017.
- ↑ InterNewsService. "Alcaldesa de Barceloneta juramenta a su tercer término". El Vocero de Puerto Rico (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-06-17.