Union Party

The Union Party was a political party in Puerto Rico that advocated for greater autonomy from the United States. Luis Muñoz Rivera, a prominent statesman and publisher, was a key leader of the autonomist movement and founded the newspaper La Democracia to promote self-government for Puerto Rico. He was instrumental in securing a charter of home rule from Spain in 1897, though this was later ended by the U.S. after the Spanish-American War. The Union Party's goal was to modify the political relationship between Puerto Rico and the U.S. federal government, contrasting with the Republican Party's preference for statehood and the Nationalist Party's call for independence.123