El Ponceño

El Ponceño, founded in 1852, was the first newspaper published in Ponce, Puerto Rico.Mantienen viva la tradición carnavalesca. Reinaldo Millán La Perla del Sur. Ponce, Puerto Rico. 6 February 2013. Year 31. Issue 1523. Page 24. Retrieved 6 February 2013. Archived. The paper was originally named "El Observador Ponceño" but it was shortened to "El Ponceño".Media and Communication / Chronology of newspapers of the 19th century: 1805-1865. Encyclopedia Puerto Rico. Retrieved 25 July 2012.

History El Ponceño was founded by Daniel Rivera.El libro de Puerto Rico: Capitulo XIX: Ciudades Principales: Ponce: Breve Sinopsis Histórica Juan Braschi. E. Fernandez Garcia, editor. Francis W. Hoadley & Eugenio Astol, co-editors. San Juan, Puerto Rico: El Libro Azul Publishing Company. 1923. Page 1065. Retrieved 26 February 2014. Daniel received help for the establishment of the newspaper from the modern philosopher, author and politician Dr. Don Andrés López de Medrano. El Ponceño came to the light of day at a time of political repression of the press in Puerto Rico. Yet, "despite a late start in Puerto Rico, the press played a significant role in the literature and the cultural life of Puerto Rico. The Royal Decree of 1834 censured the printing of texts and this was also applied to the press. In 1836 there was a restoration of the freedom of the press for Spanish papers but not for papers published in the Spanish colonies. Despite this, in 1839 the Boletín Instructivo y Mercantil de Puerto Rico was established in San Juan. In 1848 El Imparcial was founded in Mayaguez; it lasted 50 days before being vanished by Governor Juan Prim. Likewise El Ponceño was also shut down, but "in its short life it managed to become part of the cultural life and the sustainment of economic development" of the area.El Silenciamiento del Sujeto de Origen Africano en las Letras Puertorriqueñas del Siglo XIX. Rosita E. Villagómez. Florida State University. School of Arts and Sciences. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics. Summer 2005. Page 46. Retrieved 25 July 2012. The paper was founded in 1852 in the city of Ponce as "El Observador Ponceño"Media and Communication / Chronology of newspapers of the 19th century: 1805-1865. Encyclopedia Puerto Rico. Retrieved 25 July 2012. It was a weekly paper, published on Saturdays.Las Fiestas Populares de Ponce y La Villa de Ponce. Ramon Marin. 1875. Ponce, Puerto Rico: Imprenta El Vapor. 72 pages. (Reprinted September 1994. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico. 281 pages. [Socorro Girón. "Ramón Marin y su Tiempo." (foreword)]) Page 12. Retrieved 23 July 2012. Its offices were located on Calle Cristina, in the same structure that Luis Muñoz Rivera later published "La Democracia."Municipalities / Ponce: Founding and History. Encyclopedia Puerto Rico. Retrieved 25 July 2012.

Coverage The paper covered issues related to municipal (improvements, roads, bridges) and island affairs. Encyclopedia Puerto Rico. Retrieved 25 July 2012. as well as political matters.Cultura Popular, Construcciones de Raza y Etnia en Puerto Rico a Finales del Siglo XIX. Astrid Cubano Iguina. University of Puerto Rico. Page 1. Retrieved 25 July 2012. Poetry was one method used in the paper to publish popular thought. Satire was another. One of the better known writers in this paper was Ramon Marin.Las Fiestas Populares de Ponce y La Villa de Ponce. Ramon Marin. 1875. Ponce, Puerto Rico: Imprenta El Vapor. 72 pages. (Reprinted September 1994. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico. 281 pages. [Socorro Girón. "Ramon Marin y su Tiempo." (foreword)]) Page 12. Retrieved 23 July 2012. Ramon Marin later became a well-known Ponce historian and one of his grandchildren became governor of Puerto Rico. According to Villagómez, one reason the paper evaded official censure was because it contained mostly articles that "were not a threat to the colonial political system but a criticism to the pro-slavery society in Ponce.El Silenciamiento del Sujeto de Origen Africano en las Letras Puertorriqueñas del Siglo XIX. Rosita E. Villagómez. Florida State University. School of Arts and Sciences. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics. Summer 2005. Page 44. Retrieved 25 July 2012.

Closure Enjoying two years of continuous weekly publishing, El Ponceño was shut down by the Spanish government in July 1854.Las Fiestas Populares de Ponce y La Villa de Ponce. Ramon Marin. 1875. Ponce, Puerto Rico: Imprenta El Vapor. 72 pages. (Reprinted September 1994. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico. 281 pages. [Socorro Girón. "Ramon Marin y su Tiempo." (foreword)]) Page 12. Retrieved 23 July 2012. The orders came from the Spanish governor in the Island, Fernando de Norzagaray, for offending the conservative views of his administration.Las Fiestas Populares de Ponce y La Villa de Ponce. Ramon Marin. 1875. Ponce, Puerto Rico: Imprenta El Vapor. 72 pages. (Reprinted September 1994. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico. 281 pages. [Socorro Girón. "Ramon Marin y su Tiempo." (foreword)]) Page 12. Retrieved 23 July 2012. Tensions had been building for some time, but the 22 July 1854 publishing of a poem by Daniel Rivera title "Agüeybaná El Bravo" proved too much for the conservative Spanish government to bear. The poem praised the 1511 Taino Indian revolt against the Spanish invaders.Moral Social Sociologia. Eugenio María de Hostos. [Title: Moral social; Sociología (Volume 97 of Biblioteca Ayacucho)] Contributor/ Compiler: Manuel Maldonado-Denis. Venezuela: Biblioteca Ayacucho, 1982. (Original from the University of California.) , 9788466000956. Page 389. Retrieved 25 July 2012. Daniel Rivera was sent into exile by Norzagaray. El Nuevo Dia. 31 October 2010. Retrieved 25 July 2012.

Daniel Rivera's poem read, in part, as follows:Socorro Girón. Ponce, el Teatro La Perla, y la Campana de la Almudaina. Gobierno Municipal de Ponce. Ponce, Puerto Rico. 1992. Page 71. LOC Number: 85-90989.

"¡Ea, compañeros! Vamos al combate: Honor la patria a defender nos llama; Si en paz, contento el corazón no late La guerra nos dará fortuna y fama; Hasta la mar que nuestra costa bate Ondas escupe y agitada brama, Que cual nosotros contemplar quisiera Libre esta perla de la gente ibera.""Hey brothers! Let's go to the fight: The motherland calls us to defend our honor; If our hearts do not beat peacefully War will grant us fortune and fame; Even the sea that beats our shores Spits waves and rumbles with alarm, For like us it, too, would like to see Our pearl freed from the Iberian people."

After the closing of El Ponceño, Vilardell founded El Fénix, and performed as both reporter and editor. He also went into the insurance business.El Silenciamiento del Sujeto de Origen Africano en las Letras Puertorriqueñas del Siglo XIX. Rosita E. Villagómez. Florida State University. School of Arts and Sciences. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics. Summer 2005. Page 49. Retrieved 25 July 2012.

Other Ponce-based papers El Fénix (1855) La Democracia (1890-1948) Imprenta El Vapor.About La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Accessed 15 January 2019. Founded by Luis Muñoz Rivera.Historia de Puerto Rico. Paul G. Miller. New York: Rand, McNally and Co. 1922. Pages 508. Accessed 15 January 2019. El Día (1909) La Perla del Sur (1982) By Juan J. Nogueras. La Revista de Puerto Rico El Derecho (1873) By Roman Baldorioty de Castro.Historia de Puerto Rico. Paul G. Miller. New York: Rand, McNally and Co. 1922. Page 507. Accessed 15 January 2019. La Crónica (1894) By Ramón Marín.Historia de Puerto Rico. Paul G. Miller. New York: Rand, McNally and Co. 1922. Pages 507. Accessed 15 January 2019. El Postillón (1890) By Francisco Gonzalo Marín.Historia de Puerto Rico. Paul G. Miller. New York: Rand, McNally and Co. 1922. Pages 507. Accessed 15 January 2019.

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