Photo by Puerto Rican photographer Fernando Ortiz updated 9/26/17 One hundred years ago they began to be citizens of the United States of America. They have fought in all our wars, even on the front lines defending the very same freedom and liberties, the ideologies and sureties of a way of life prized and coveted by people the world over. Nineteen years prior to gaining citizenship, in the Spanish-American War of 1898, Spain lost control over the island, formally known by its indigenous population of Tainó native americans as, Borinquén. Jutting out of the Caribbean Sea, the smallest of the bigger islands, Puerto Rico has held a primarily geo-military value to the United States, yet it has also served as a cultural crossroads between Latin American culture and the English-speaking America. Much like Istanbul (old Constantinople) in the country of Turkey, Puerto Rico is a modern-day representation of the rich, cultural heritages that flow from the Spanish-conquest legacy, p...
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