Turning Point in the Forties: Rise of the Partido Popular Democratico
Turning Point in the Forties: Rise of the Partido Popular Democratico
This chapter focuses on the emergence of a new political movement in Puerto Rico in the 1940s: the Partido Popular Democrático (PPD). Launched in 1938, the PPD came to dominate Puerto Rican politics during these years under the leadership of Luis Muñoz Marín. The chapter describes the initial victory and internal transformation of the PPD, as well as its evolving relation with the labor movement. It also documents the rise and fall of a new labor federation, the Confederatión General del Trabajo, and its conflict with the PPD. After discussing the intensification of labor activism and Left influence in the late 1930s, highlighted by strikes in which the Communist Party of Puerto Rico played a key role, the chapter turns to the 1940 elections that became a three-way race between the PPD, the Coalición (composed of Republicans and Socialists), and the Unificación Puertorriqueña Tripartita (made up of dissident Republicans, dissident Socialists, and the Partido Liberal). Finally, it considers the clash between Muñoz Marín and the independentistas inside and outside the PPD.
Keywords: Puerto Rican politics, Puerto Rico, Partido Popular Democrático, Luis Muñoz Marín, labor movement, labor activism, strikes, Communist Party, elections
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