Birth of The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party
On September 17, 1922, the Independence Association merged with Coll y CuchÃ's Nationalist Association of Puerto Rico and the Nationalist Youth (Juventud Nacionalista) political organizations to form the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party.
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