Timeline: Puerto Rico
Taíno Civilization (22)
Spanish Colonial Period (57)
U.S. Military Government (17)
Early U.S. Colonial Period (67)
Commonwealth Era (113)
PROMESA and Fiscal Control (120)
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Colonial Extraction
Legal Oppression
Cultural Suppression
Environmental Violence
Contemporary Colonialism
Resistance
Spanish Colonial Period (1493 – 1898)
Four centuries of Spanish colonial rule, marked by the destruction of the Taíno population, the introduction of enslaved Africans, sugar and coffee plantation economies, and periodic resistance movements.
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