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“The United States media is advocating for the country to go to battle with Spain and take over Cuba and Puerto Rico to gain advantage over the Atlantic, said Manuel. They have swayed public opinion...”
“Its over, said Carmona to the towns men at the casa alcalda (city hall). Word is that the United States Flag is waving in Gunica, Coamo and at El Morro and San Cristbal Castles in San Juan. Puerto ...”
“Ay, las faldas! (Oh, the skirts!) he sighed, shaking his head and winking with a mischievous smile. While admitting women were his Achilles heel, Antonio, as many young men of the times did, also d...”
“As the children left, Antonio shifted his gaze towards his father and gently waved at his family, while they returned the gesture.With half a smile and a tight lip, Antonios green eyes spoke, Adis ...”
“All Americans were immigrants at one point or another, he explained in his letters to his parents. Even his father Manuel migrated to Puerto Rico. Manuel was deemed a Peninsular, an immigrant from ...”
“Her heart now pounding, a strange feeling of combined fear and happiness invaded her. She took a deep breath. Her lungs filled with fresh air. An invigorating rush of electricity all over her body ...”
“Do you know who Samuel Langhorne Clemens is, Antonio? Bessie asked.No, chood I? he said. He is best known as Mark Twain, the author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, she said.I have herd of the stor...”
“Antonio could not stop thinking about Dean Fieros words during his welcoming speech, Look to your left; now to your right. One of you will not be here in 1915! These words were used to intimidate f...”
“He woke up to knocks on his door. Just a minute! he said out loud. Im coming!He got up and straightened himself as he opened the door.Besi! he said, overcome with emotion.He held her and never let go.”
“In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which distr...”
“No person shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law - Fifth Amendment, United States Consti...”
“Antonios will was cursed. Not once, but twice.”
“ANTONIO PONTÓN’S TRIAL made front page headlines across major newspapers. On April 17, 1915, the Schenectady Gazette headline read, “Trial of Ponton on the Charge of Committing one of Most Startlin...”
“Dear Governor Whitman, … Our father is not a simple criminal. … He was harassed by more ideas than his mind could stand. …”
“There is always hope for a reprieve, my friend,” Stielow said. “You have to get the governor to pardon you if the courts fail on you. This is an unlikely thing, although possible. The last thing yo...”
“Pardon me for this resolution … I know that this will be a disgrace that I bring to my people, but I cannot help it. Love is the blame for it. I go in peace ... pray for me ... good-bye all.”
“¡Hundieron el Maine!” said Manuel to his wife Etervina, as he read the newspaper on February 16, 1898. “They sank the Maine!”
“THEY CALLED HIM “Ponce de León” because he acted as though he could conquer anything and anyone. He enchanted every young woman that came his way with piropos (pick-up lines) and clever sweet talk....”
“Manuel adapted well to the Puerto Rican culture and its African and Taíno Indian influences, which permeated into the local language. Taíno words such as tabaco (tobacco), barbacoa (barbecue), cano...”
“And then there was nature’s music. The small frog the locals called coquí was a treasured new sound, a lullaby sung by the chanting Puerto Rican native species. Sometimes, while he lay in bed awake...”
