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Ramon EMETERIO Betances

A doctor and surgeon by trade, Ramón Emeterio Betances was also a scientist, diplomat, writer, and abolitionist who fought against colonial rule and helped enslaved Puerto Ricans flee to neighboring countries where slavery had already been abolished. Born in Cabo Rojo to Dominican and Puerto Rican parents, Betances (1827—1898) dreamed of a “revolution of love” that would radically transform the Caribbean. Although his father became a sugar planter, Betances rejected the racism and privileges of planter society. When his father changed the family’s official classification from "mixed race" to "white,” which entitled the family to further legal and property rights, Betances insisted that he and his entire family were not blancuzcos but rather prietuzcos, meaning “blackish.” In addition to asserting his black identity, Betances often signed his letters as “El Antillano” meaning “the Antillean,” identifying himself with the peoples of the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Cuba.

“I am not made to accept injustice.”

In 1856, a year after c

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Ramón Emeterio Betances

Puerto Rican independence advocate (1827–1898)

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Betances and the second or maternal family name is Alacán.

Ramón Emeterio Betances y Alacán (April 8, 1827 – September 16, 1898) was a Puerto Rican independence advocate and medical doctor. He was the primary instigator of the Grito de Lares revolt and designer of the Grito de Lares flag. Since the Grito galvanized a burgeoning nationalist movement among Puerto Ricans, Betances is also considered to be the father of the Puerto Rican independence movement and the ElPadre de la Patria (The Father of the Homeland). His charitable deeds for people in need, earned him the moniker of El Padre de los Pobres (The Father of the Poor).

Betances was also a medical doctor and surgeon in Puerto Rico, and one of its first social hygienists. He had established a successful surgery and ophthalmology practice. Betances was also an abolitionist, diplomat, public health administrator, poet, and novelist. He served as representative and conta

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Doctor, writer, independence leader, “Father of his country”

Ramón Emeterio Betances Alacán was the son of Felipe Betances, a Dominican immigrant tied to the world of the sugar trade and business, and María del Carmen Alacán, a native of Cabo Rojo. He was born April 8, 1827. During his childhood in Mayagüez, he was educated by private tutors.

In 1837 he traveled to Toulouse, France, where he completed his preparatory education at the Collège Royal, today Lycée Pierre-de-Fermat. In 1848, he enrolled in the School of Medicine at the University of Paris. He took specialized courses at the School of Medicine of Montpellier in 1852 and he finished his degree in Medicine and Surgery in Paris in 1855. In 1856, he returned to Puerto Rico, earned the right to practice as a doctor and surgeon and settled in Mayagüez, where he worked as a surgeon and began his broad work in philanthropy and politics.

That same year, Puerto Rico suffered a cholera epidemic that reached Mayagüez and affected a large part of the population. Betances, along with four other doctors, dedicated himself to attend