On Feb. 6, 1899, Congress approved the Treaty of Paris, which also ceded the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam to the U.S.

Spain lost the war and ceded Puerto Rico to the United States, along with other territories, including Guam and the Philippines. A raft of legislation and court rulings in the early twentieth ...

"The freedom of Puerto Rico is pending, and we will achieve it with Brazilian troops," the Venezuelan president said.

The governor of Puerto Rico pleaded ... conflict since World War I." "Contrary to Maduro's and other adversaries' calls for independence, the people of Puerto Rico have repeatedly rejected this ...

It’s hard to describe it other than in colonial terms, starting with the fact that people born in Puerto Rico—which the United States occupied after the Spanish-American War of 1898—have U.S ...

following the U.S. takeover of the island from Spain in the 1898 Spanish-American War. In a non-binding plebiscite in November, nearly 70 percent of participating voters in Puerto Rico chose ...

José “Cha Cha” Jiménez, a civil rights and liberation movement ... Mr. Jiménez was born in Caguas, Puerto Rico, on Aug. 8, 1948, and grew up on Chicago’s North Side in La Clark, one ...