User:MANUEL RIVERA TORRES/sandbox

It's not true that Morovis (Puerto Rico) was not stroke by the cholera illness. That's almost an urban legend. According to my grandmother (by the father's side), doña Tomasita Burgos-Ortiz, hundreds of moroveños suffered that calamity, and as a fact, they were buried in a standing position in order to accomodate them all, because there were not enough space in the cemetery. So, that was a misinterpretation of a headline published in one of the newspaper of that time that incorrectly stated: "El cólere ataca, a la Isla menos Morovis". Legends are funny, but it's not fair to play with historical facts. Problem is, that now we have several seudo-historians that all of a sudden decided to write books and panphlets regarding historical events, and inclusively, the so called Academia de la Historia de Puerto Rico (?) has name these impostols as numerical members. Puerto Rico is the kingdom of mediocrity. -Manuel Rivera-Torres, June 8th, 2012