Puerto Rico - Independent

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Ramón Emeterio Betances and Segundo Ruiz Belvis organized the revolt with careful planning and time to make the island of Puerto Rico an independent nation. The world carried on, Spain had just ended it's revolutionary war, the year was 1868. Speaking of simple liberal reforms would send you to jail in the small, yet wealthy island of Puerto Rico. On September 28, 1868, Manuel Rojas declared independence.