Representaciones de violencia electoral: el "Mancheno" Nogueras, ¿un turba?

Abstract

In Cayey, confrontations between political partisans in the years from 1900 to 1908 had the inmediate precedent of the 1890‘s violent political struggles. The reconstruction of a partisan‘s life, that of the carpenter "Mancheno" Nogueras, politically active in those years, shows how hard it is to tipify violent political behavior using as the sole source the partisan press. "Mancheno" was active with the Republicans in 1900 and 1902, with the Union Party between 1904 and 1906, and once again with the Republicans in 1908. At each instance the vituperations or the encomium his actions received are more revealing of the partisan fervor of the local journalists than of the person‘s political itinerary.

URI: https://dire.upr.edu/handle/11721/1013