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Key topics covered by the newspaper include industrialization of Puerto Rican society, the Great Depression, territorial relations with the United States including citizenship and activities of independence movements such as the Macheteros and FALN, the rise of the Popular Democratic Party, the Ponce massacre, the Ley de la Mordaza (Gag Law) and more. El Mundo closed temporarily in 1986 following a labor strike. The newspaper never fully recovered from the debilitating strikes of the 1980s and ongoing union difficulties. It did reopen in January 1988, only to close again a short while later, ceasing publication permanently in 1990.

Creation of the El Mundo Digital Archive has been made possible through the support of the Center for Research Libraries and the collaboration of the University of Puerto Rico, which owns the copyright for the publication. Part of East View's Global Press Archive Collection.

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History; Political Science; Spanish

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