Puerto Rico’s historians estimate that Christopher Columbus landed in Puerto Rico roughly November 19th, 1493, on his second voyage to the New World.
But where did he land? That’s the question that is creating controversy this year, the 521st anniversary of the first contact of Europeans and the Taina people of Puerto Rico.
Columbus had passed by or visited Dominica and Saba, Guadaloupe, Antigua, Montserratte, and St. Kitts, among other islands, naming them along the way with names which are generally no longer used. Still, the route was fairly direct and well known. It is known that Columbus was heading for Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles, where he had left about 40 men on his previous voyage.
Columbus had European livestock aboard as well as people intending to settle in the New World. His ship had made the crossing from Spain in only 21 days, and he spent only one day traveling along the coast of Puerto Rico, then known as Borinquén.
Columbus came ashore somewhere between Aguada and Aguadilla, or perhaps in Añasco or Rincon. Or possibly Mayaguez, Guayanilla, Combate, or Bocaron.
Aurelio Tio, the former official historian of Puerto Rico, chose Añasco as the most likely, partly on the basis of 15th century court documents disputing a piece of land.
Pulitzer Prize winning historian and Columbus expert Samuel Eliot Morison agreed with him. The two visited the locations together and Morison concluded that Tio was correct. The news of this certainty was reported now and then in mainland papers: stories in 1949, 1963, and 1978 in various parts of the country announced the “new” discovery.
In 2000, however, a government funded commission, led by Osiris Delgado, Ricardo Alegria, and Adam Szasdi of the Puerto Rican Academy of History, made the official determination that the landfall occurred between Aguada and Aguadilla.
The mayor of Añasco announced his intention to bring the controversy to the National Puerto Rican Day Parade in New York City next year, with a delegation from Añasco. He believes that new evidence from University of Puerto Rico oceanographers will finally clinch the question.
Why, after half a millennium, is the controversy still able to rouse so much passion? The answer may lie in the benefits for tourism.
Rincon Beach Resort in Añasco trumpets, “The Great Admiral, Columbus, chose this bay for his first PR landing!” on tourist sites like TripAdvisor, and the competing towns have neighborhoods named “Columbus Landing” and statues of Columbus. It is a debate that may not be resolved soon.
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Puerto Rico Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi met earlier this week with the Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, Admiral Paul F. Zukunft, to discuss the Coast Guard’s efforts to reduce drug trafficking and related violence in Puerto Rico. At the same time, Admiral Zukunft announced an increase in the number of Coast Guard personnel assigned to Puerto Rico by 84 active duty members. This initiative builds on previous efforts to enhance federal resources to help Puerto Rico combat drug related violence.
The number of homicides in Puerto Rico in 2014 is on track to be 40 percent lower than in 2011, 32 percent lower than in 2012, and 25 percent lower than in 2013. There were 1,136 homicides in Puerto Rico in 2011, and it is estimated that that number will decrease to 665 homicides in 2014. Yet Puerto Rico still has a murder rate that is far higher than any U.S. state or the District of Columbia, with an average of roughly two homicides each day. The presence of illegal drugs in Puerto Rico has been linked with the high homicide rate.
Congress has studied the connection, noting that the Puerto Rican border of the United States lacks the level of protection granted to the Southwestern and Northern borders of the Unites States to protect the country from illegal drugs and their consequences. Enhanced federal resources in recent years through “Operation Caribbean Resilience”appear to have had an impact.
“According to a recent report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office, which I requested, the total amount of hours that Coast Guard maritime vessels spent conducting counter-drug operations in Sector San Juan—which covers Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands—more than tripled between Fiscal Year 2009 and Fiscal Year 2013, from about 2,000 hours to nearly 7,000 hours. In addition, the total amount of hours that Coast Guard aircraft spent conducting counter-drug operations in Sector San Juan increased from less than 150 hours in Fiscal Year 2011, to over 500 hours in Fiscal Year 2012, to about 1,000 hours in Fiscal Year 2013. Moreover, the Coast Guard recently informed me that this number rose yet again to about 1,237 flight hours in Fiscal Year 2014. That is an eightfold increase in just four years,” said Pierluisi.
“If you want to identify the reasons why Puerto Rico’s murder rate has fallen so significantly since 2011, enhanced efforts by federal law enforcement agencies like the Coast Guard are perhaps the single most important factor,” added the Resident Commissioner.
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As of the end of September 2014, or Epidemiological Week 39, Puerto Rico has reported 16,198 suspected and confirmed autochthonous cases of chikungunya, an increase of some 1,700 cases from the week prior.
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San Juan, Nov 19 (EFEUSA).- Puerto Rico on Wednesday is celebrating the 521st anniversary of its discovery with an open debate about exactly when Christopher Columbus first set foot on the Caribbean island and claimed it for the Spanish Crown.
Añasco Mayor Jorge Estevez Martinez told Efe that the explorer arrived at a beach in his town on the island's western coast and not at a point between Aguada and Aguadilla as has been accepted up to now, an idea that has sparked debate on such an important date for Puerto Ricans.
Estevez Martinez said that the theory of the former official historian of Puerto Rico, Aurelio Tio, and various studies by a team of oceanographers from the University of Puerto Rico, about which he gave no details, are the basis for the claim that Añasco was the place on the island where Columbus first landed.
He said that, although for many years it had been accepted that Columbus arrived between Aguada and Aguadilla, that was because those two municipalities appropriated and pushed the idea, an initiative that Añasco had no way to counter until now.
The mayor said he believes that the archaeological finds dating back to the Spanish colonizers in Añasco, which has a deep bay with optimum conditions for an anchorage and a navigable river, are other facts that add weight to his theory.
Estevez Martinez is prepared to promote his theory outside Puerto Rico, specifically during the National Puerto Rican Day Parade in New York City next year, where a delegation from Añasco will be present.
Puerto Rico's current official historian, Luis Gonzalez Vales, told Efe that Nov. 19, 1493, is the date on which it is estimated that Columbus first landed on the Caribbean island on his second trip to the New World.
From that point forward, he said, Spain was tightly linked to the Caribbean island until the U.S. invasion of Puerto Rico in 1898 brought the Spanish presence to an end.
Although Puerto Rico was discovered and its coastline explored by Columbus and his expedition of 17 ships in 1493, it was not until 1508 that the island - which was inhabited by Native Americans - began to be colonized by the Spaniards. EFE
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