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Nelson Famadas
Nelson Famadas-Alapont was a Puerto Rican businessman who was the New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico, New Progressive Party candidate for Resident Commissioner in 1984, as Governor Carlos Romero Barceló's running mate. He previously served as Chief Economic Counsel to Romero Barceló. Famadas, who was born on November 24, 1948, died on January 25, 2010, at the age of 61, after a long illness. Famadas was the top economic advisor to the Episcopal Church of the United States' Diocese of Puerto Rico, serving on the board of directors of two of its non-profit community-based health-related entities which operate two hospitals and a home-based health care system. At the time of his death he served as Vice Chairman of the Board of Sun American Bank in Boca Ratón, Florida, as Chairman and CEO of Gables Holding Corporation, real estate development company and is an adjunct professor, lecturing in Operations Management, at the School of Business Administration at Florida Internationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Progressive Party Of Puerto Rico
The New Progressive Party ( es, Partido Nuevo Progresista, PNP) is a political party in Puerto Rico that advocates statehood. The PNP is one of the two major parties in Puerto Rico with significant political strength and currently holds both the seat of the governor and of the resident commissioner. The party is primarily contrasted by two other political parties: the Popular Democratic Party (PPD), which advocates maintaining the current political status of Puerto Rico as that of an unincorporated territory of the United States with self-government, and the smaller Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP), which advocates for the independence of Puerto Rico. In national/mainland politics, members are split, with some party members affiliating with the Republican Party and some with the Democratic Party, although the PNP tends to be seen as slightly more conservative than the PPD overall. The party traces its history back to 1967. In that year, the Partido Estadista Rep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
