Puerto Rican Nationalist Party Leadership
The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party was founded in response to this U.S. colonial regime. In 1924, Albizu Campos joined the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and was elected vice president.
In 1927, Albizu traveled to Santo Domingo, Haiti, Cuba, Mexico, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela, seeking solidarity for the Puerto Rican Independence movement.
In 1930, there were some disagreements between Albizu and José Coll y Cuchí, president of the Party, as to how it should be run. As a result Coll y Cuchí abandoned the party and some of his followers returned to the Union Party. On May 11, 1930, Albizu Campos was elected president of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and formed the first Women's Nationalist Committee, in the island municipality of Vieques, Puerto Rico.
The election of Pedro Albizu Campos as president of the Nationalist Party radically changed the organization and tactics of the party. After being elected party president he declared: "I never believed in numbers. Independence will instead be achieved by the intensity of those that devote themselves totally to the Nationalist ideal."
Under the slogan "la patria es valor y sacrificio" (the motherland is valor and sacrifice) a new campaign of national affirmation was carried out. This idea of self-sacrifice co-existed with Albizu's Catholic faith.
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