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Grito de Lares Cry of Lares , also referred to as the Lares revolt , the Lares rebellion , the Lares uprising , or the Lares revolution , was the first of two short-lived revolts against Spanish rule in Puerto Rico , staged by the Revolutionary Committee of Puerto Rico on September 23, Having been planned, organized, and launched in the mountainous western municipality of Lares , the revolt is known as the Grito de Lares Cry of Lares.

Three decades after rebelling in Lares, the revolutionary committee carried out a second unsuccessful revolt in the neighboring southwestern municipality of Yauco , known as the Intentona de Yauco Attempted Coup of Yauco. The Grito de Lares flag is recognized as the first flag of Puerto Rico. In the s, the government of Spain was involved in several conflicts across Latin America.

It became involved in a war with Peru and Chile and had to address slave revolts in Cuba. At the time, Puerto Rico and Cuba also suffered a severe economic crisis because of increasing tariffs and taxes imposed by the Spanish central government on most import and export goods. The Spanish crown needed the funds badly to subsidize its troops in the Dominican Republic.

In midth century Puerto Rico, many supporters of independence from Spain, as well as others who did not support independence from Spain but simply called for liberal reforms, were jailed or exiled. However, in , the central government in Madrid, finally attempted to appease the growing discontent in all its overseas provinces by setting up a "board of review" to receive complaints from provincial representatives.

The board, the Junta Informativa de Reformas de Ultramar Informative Board on Overseas Reforms would be formed by representatives of each overseas province in proportion to their collective population. The Puerto Rican delegation was freely elected by those eligible to vote male Caucasian property owners in what was one of the first exercises of political openness in Spain.

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However, Acosta could convince the Junta that abolition could be achieved in Puerto Rico without disrupting the local economy, including its Cuban members, who frowned upon implementing it in Cuba because of its much higher numbers of slave labor. Emilio Castelar y Ripoll , once he became minister for foreign affairs in , finally approved an abolition bill and praised the efforts of the Puerto Rican members, who were sincerely moved by Acosta's arguments.

Beyond abolition, however, proposals for autonomy were voted down, as were other petitions to limit the governor general's power over virtually every aspect of life in Puerto Rico.