Ramón Marín

Ramón Marín Solá (12 January 1832 – 13 September 1902) was a nineteenth-century Puerto Rican educator, journalist, politician, historian, poet, and playwright.

[7] He studied at Arecibo's Liceo San Felipe and in 1850, at 18 years of age, he moved to Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, to work as a teacher.

In December 1885, Ramón Marín published a 72-page pamphlet titled "Las Fiestas Populares de Ponce".

[20] On 19 February 1886, Ramón Marín became part of the founding committee of the Partido Liberal Puertorriqueño together with Martin Corchado, Rafael Pujals and others.

[21] Also with Pujals, Corchado and others, Marín was signatory of the Plan de Ponce, a "carta magna" seeking freedom from the Spanish imperialists.

[22] In 1887 Marín and Baldorioty de Castro were arrested by the colonial authorities as they attempted to travel to Spain to denounce before the Spanish Cortes the oppression of the colonial government on the people of Puerto Rico via the "Compontes" – forced removal of citizens from their homes for detention by the authorities without any charges.

The young pharmacist Juan Arrillaga Cortes, aided by Xavier Mariani, Olimpio Otero, and others, would later successfully make the trip to Madrid to denounce the atrocities of the colonial government in Puerto Rico.

Ramon's wife, María Amalia Castilla Beiro died on 6 May 1873, at the age of 28, and Marín then married Candelaria Marien with whom he lived the rest of his life.