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Detailed Country Profile: Puerto Rico (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Puerto Rico is a commonwealth associated with the United States in the Carribean. |
| | In 1898, after 400 years of colonial rule that saw the indigenous population nearly exterminated and African slave labor introduced, Puerto Rico was ceded to the US as a result of the Spanish-American War. |
| | Hi May, though Tony Colon ran for the Puerto Rican Olympic team in 1972 and 1976, he was a citizen of the USA and is better known as an All-American miler in 1973 and 1974. |
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