Claridad

Spanish-language weekly newspaper based in San Juan, Puerto Rico

Claridad

January 7, 2009 front page

Type| Weekly newspaper
Format| Tabloid
Owner(s)| Periódico de la Nación Puertorriqueña, Inc.
Founder(s)| Juan Mari Brás[1][a]
Founded| 1959
Political alignment| Liberal-socialist, center-left leaning
Language| Spanish
Headquarters| San Juan, Puerto Rico
Website| claridadpuertorico.com

Claridad ("Clarity") is a Spanish-language weekly newspaper based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It was founded in June 1959. The paper served as the official publication of the Puerto Rican independence movement and later the Puerto Rican Socialist Party (PSP). The paper has been praised for its strong political and investigative reporting. It continues to be published weekly despite the fact that the PSP was disbanded in 1993. Many former PSP members continue to contribute to the paper.

Its central supplement, "En Rojo" ("In Red") is one of the best cultural magazines in the island, featuring historical and literary articles, movie reviews, and linguistic contributions from Puerto Rico's best writers and intellectuals.

Claridad's yearly event dubbed "Festival de Claridad" began as a fund-raising event in 1974,[b] but has become one of the most important musical and cultural events in Puerto Rico. It attracts tens of thousands of participants and some of the most prominent exponents of various musical genres.

Many famous Puerto Ricans have made regular contributions to Claridad, either as editors, writers or graphic artists, including: René Marqués, César Andreu Iglesias, Juan Mari Brás, Carlos Gallisá, Lorenzo Homar, Carlos Raquel Rivera, Francisco Manrique Cabrera, Elizam Escobar, Alfredo Lopez, Elliott Castro and others. Claridad's current featured writers include: Joserramón Meléndez, Raquel Z. Rivera, Gervasio Morales, Irving García, Luz Nereida Pérez, and fictional character Fiquito Yunqué, among others.

## See also

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* List of newspapers in Puerto Rico

## Notes

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1. ^ "Juan Mari Brás (Fundador) 1927-2010"
2. ^ In 1974 the paper was in its 35th anniversary of the event (see top of the paper image in the infobox). Assuming the event never skipped any yearly celebration, it started in 1974.

## References

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1. ^ Conmemoran mañana natalicio de Juan Mari Brás, abogado, periodista y líder independentista. Claridad (Inter News Service). San Juan, Puerto Rico. 1 December 2014. Accessed 28 June 2020.

## Further reading

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* Maria Cristina Santana, Puerto Rican Newspaper Coverage of the Puerto Rican Independence Party: A Content Analysis of Three Elections (Garland Publishers, Inc., 2000).
* Juan Mari Brás, Memorias de un ciudadano - La Autobiografía de Juan Mari Brás (Editorial Barco de Papel, 2007)

## External links

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* (in Spanish) Claridad online

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Newspapers published in Puerto Rico

Islandwide|

* Caribbean Business
* Claridad
* El Nuevo Día
* El Vocero
* Primera Hora
* The San Juan Star

Regional|

* La Esquina

Online|

* Tribunal del Pueblo
* El Mundo
* News Is My Business
* NotiCel
* Pasquines
* La Perla del Sur

Defunct|

* La Democracia
* El Mundo
* El Ponceño
* La Estrella Norte
* La Estrella Oeste
* La Perla del Sur
* El Imparcial

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Independence movement in Puerto Rico

Indigenous resistance|

* Agüeybaná I
* Agüeybaná II
* Arasibo
* Hayuya
* Jumacao
* Urayoán

Political organizations|

* Union Party of Puerto Rico
* Independence Association of Puerto Rico
* Liberal Party of Puerto Rico
* Puerto Rican Independence Party
* Puerto Rican Nationalist Party
* Hostosian National Independence Movement
* Socialist Front
* Puerto Rico Pro-Independence University Federation
* Young Lords

Militant organizations|

* Cadets of the Republic
* Boricua Popular Army (Macheteros)
* Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional

19th century activists|

* Ramón Emeterio Betances
* Mariana Bracetti
* Mathias Brugman
* Roberto Cofresí
* María de las Mercedes Barbudo
* José de Diego
* Eugenio María de Hostos
* Francisco Gonzalo Marín
* Rosendo Matienzo Cintrón
* Antonio Mattei Lluberas
* Francisco Ramírez Medina
* José Gualberto Padilla
* Lola Rodríguez de Tió
* Manuel Rojas
* Juan Ríus Rivera
* Segundo Ruiz Belvis
* Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
* Antonio Valero de Bernabé
* Manuel Zeno Gandía
* Fernando Fernandez
* Agustín Stahl
* José "Aguila Blanca" Maldonado
* Marcos Xiorro

20th and 21st century
activists|

* Antonio Rafael Barceló
* Félix Benítez Rexach
* Rubén Berríos
* Americo Boschetti
* Juan Mari Brás
* Marie Haydée Beltrán Torres
* Roy Brown
* Cayetano Coll y Cuchí
* Gilberto Concepción de Gracia
* Juan Dalmau
* Pedro Ortiz Dávila
* José M. Dávila Monsanto
* Elizam Escobar
* Leopoldo Figueroa
* Víctor Manuel Gerena
* Edwin Irizarry Mora
* Luis Lloréns Torres
* Oscar López Rivera
* Filiberto Ojeda Ríos
* Antonio S. Pedreira
* Pedro Pietri
* Miguel Poventud
* Ángel Rivero Méndez
* Manuel Rodríguez Orellana
* María de Lourdes Santiago
* Piri Thomas
* Alejandrina Torres
* Carlos Alberto Torres
* Iris Zavala

Puerto Rican
Nationalist Party|

* Pedro Albizu Campos
* José S. Alegría
* Margot Arce de Vázquez
* Elías Beauchamp
* Casimiro Berenguer
* Julia de Burgos
* Blanca Canales
* Nemesio Canales
* Rafael Cancel Miranda
* José Coll y Cuchí
* Oscar Collazo
* Rosa Collazo
* Juan Antonio Corretjer
* José Ferrer Canales
* Isabel Freire de Matos
* Carmelo Delgado Delgado
* Raimundo Díaz Pacheco
* Andres Figueroa Cordero
* Irvin Flores
* Lolita Lebrón
* Tomás López de Victoria
* Hugo Margenat
* René Marqués
* Francisco Matos Paoli
* Pedro "Davilita" Ortiz Dávila
* Ruth Mary Reynolds
* Germán Rieckehoff
* Helen Rodríguez Trías
* Hiram Rosado
* Isabel Rosado
* Isolina Rondón
* Vidal Santiago Díaz
* Daniel Santos
* Clemente Soto Vélez
* Griselio Torresola
* Antonio Vélez Alvarado
* Carlos Vélez Rieckehoff
* Teófilo Villavicencio Marxuach
* Olga Viscal Garriga

Events|

* Ducoudray Holstein Expedition
* Grito de Lares
* Intentona de Yauco
* Levantamiento de Ciales
* Río Piedras massacre
* Ponce massacre
* Gag Law (Ley de la Mordaza)
* Nationalist Party revolts of the 1950s
* Jayuya Uprising
* San Juan Nationalist revolt
* Utuado Uprising
* Truman assassination attempt
* U.S. Capitol shooting incident (1954)
* Cerro Maravilla murders
* Latin American and Caribbean Congress in Solidarity with Puerto Rico's Independence

Symbols|

* Grito de Lares flag
* La Borinqueña by Lola Rodríguez de Tío

Media|

* Claridad

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