with the Lares flag’s blue substituted for the darker Cuban blue. While Cuba would win its independence from Spain following the Spanish-American War in 1898, Puerto Rico would be passed from ...

Just past 2:00 a.m. on July 4, 2016, four women arrived in front of a rustic wooden door in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico ... from Cuba’s banner. In a sense, Melendez-Badillo says, this flag ...

In this July 29, 2015, photo, a bronze statue of San Juan Bautista stands in front of Puerto Rico’s capitol flanked by U.S. and Puerto Rican flags ... in Venezuela or Cuba if it won’t extend ...

SEE ALSO: Flying taxis could be here by 2020 thanks to Uber In what appeared to be an attempt to recognize and celebrate the anniversary of Puerto Rico's ... an image of Cuba's flag.

Sigsbee while trying to put into Santiago de Cuba with a cargo of coal. The steamer was bound from Cardiff to Puerto Rico. As the Restormel came in the British flag was flying half way down her ...

And life on the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico was about to change forever. On Oct. 18 of that year, the U.S. took control of Puerto Rico and raised the American flag on the island — a decision ...