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Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico, officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, is a Caribbean island and unincorporated territory of the United States with official Commonwealth status. It is located in the northeast Caribbean Sea, approximately 1,000 miles southeast of Miami, Florida, between the Dominican Republic and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Entities

Our standard dataset contains 261 entities connected with Puerto Rico. This may include sanctioned entities, politically-exposed persons (PEPs), and their close associates, or entities involved in criminal activity.

Data sources

We are not yet including any data published by authorities or organizations based in Puerto Rico. See our global list of data sources and our criteria for selecting datasets.

Sanctions programs/policies targeting Puerto Rico

We are not yet including any targeting entities that are based in Puerto Rico.

Politically-exposed persons (PEPs)

Our database contains 101 entities identified as PEPs connected with Puerto Rico.

National government positions

Number of known occupants
Head of state or governmentCurrentEndedStatus unclear
Governor1--
President1--
National legislative branchCurrentEndedStatus unclear
Member of the House of Representatives-5221

Subnational government positions

No positions for this category

What do these numbers mean?

We keep track both if political positions and the individuals who occupy those positions over time. Of course, a person can hold a position for multiple terms, and multiple people can occupy the same position at the same time (e.g. members of parliament).

If a person previously held a position, and currently holds the same position, they are only counted once and recorded under Current. If it is unclear from the source whether they have left the position, they will be counted under Unclear.

How can status be unclear?

Some of the data sources we rely on indicate both past and present holders of political offices. In those cases, a lack of a precise end date for a person's occupancy of a position can mean that we don't know whether they currently hold the position or not. Read more...