[12] Daniel received help for the establishment of the newspaper from the modern philosopher, author and politician Dr. Don Andrés López de Medrano.

"[16] The paper covered issues related to municipal (improvements, roads, bridges) and island affairs[17] as well as political matters.

According to Villagómez, one reason the paper evaded official censure was because it contained mostly articles that "were not a threat to the colonial political system but a criticism to the pro-slavery society in Ponce.

[20] Enjoying two years of continuous weekly publishing, El Ponceño was shut down by the Spanish government in July 1854.

[22] Tensions had been building for some time, but the 22 July 1854 publishing of a poem by Daniel Rivera title "Agüeybaná El Bravo" proved too much for the conservative Spanish government to bear.