Editing Luis Muñoz Marín (section)

==Formation of political ideas==
In 1920, Muñoz Marín was selected to deliver a check to [[Santiago Iglesias]], the president of the [[Socialist Party (Puerto Rico)|Socialist Party of Puerto Rico]]. Excited about the prospect of meeting him, they moved to Puerto Rico, where the couple's first daughter, Munita, was born.<ref name="p.36">Bernier-Grand et al., p. 36</ref> Upon arriving, he noticed that some of the landowners were paying the ''[[Jíbaro (Puerto Rico)|jíbaro]]s'', the mountain-dwelling peasants of Puerto Rico, two dollars in exchange for their votes. He joined the Socialist Party, a decision regarded as a "disaster" by his family.<ref name="Foundation 2">{{cite web |url=http://www.munoz-marin.org/pags_nuevas_folder/biografia_folder/politico.html|title=Luis Muñoz Marín: El Político|access-date=October 1, 2007 |work=Fundación Luis Muñoz Marín |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070923010844/http://www.munoz-marin.org/pags_nuevas_folder/biografia_folder/politico.html  |archive-date = September 23, 2007|language=es}}</ref><ref name="p.41">Bernier-Grand et al., p.41</ref> In October 1920, the Socialist Party recruited members of the [[Republican Party of Puerto Rico (1903)|Republican Party]] in order to win upcoming elections. Disappointed, Muñoz Marín returned to the mainland, moving to [[New Jersey]] with his family. Shortly after, his first son, Luis Muñoz Lee, was born.{{citation needed|date=January 2017}}

In 1923, he returned alone to Puerto Rico, supposedly to publish a [[book]] that collected several of his father's previously unpublished works. After collecting $5,000 from his father's friends for this alleged "publication" Muñoz Marín spent the [[money]], did not write the book, and quickly left the [[island]].<ref>[http://www.pr-secretfiles.net/binders/HQ-100-5745_1_01_1.pdf FBI File Report: ''Luis Muñoz Marín'', File #100-5745; pp. 16–17] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100215154936/http://www.pr-secretfiles.net/binders/HQ-100-5745_1_01_1.pdf |date=February 15, 2010 }} Retrieved 05-31-2013.</ref> Several years later, after things had quieted down, [[Antonio R. Barceló]], who was the president of the newly formed Liberal Party, called Muñoz Marín to work on ''La Democracia''.<ref name="p.46">Bernier-Grand et al., p. 46</ref> After having problems with some members of the party's Republican faction, due to his support for island autonomy, Muñoz Marín returned to New York. Here he wrote for ''[[The American Mercury]]'' and ''[[The Nation]]''.{{citation needed|date=January 2017}}

In 1931, after traveling throughout the United States, Muñoz Marín noticed the instability of the country's economy&nbsp;— and his own personal finances&nbsp;— after the [[stock market crash]]. Deciding that exploiting his father's name in Puerto Rican politics was better than starving in Greenwich Village, he borrowed money from a group of friends and returned to the island.<ref name="p.48">Bernier-Grand et al., p. 48</ref> Upon arriving, he discovered that [[1928 Okeechobee hurricane|Hurricane San Felipe Segundo]] had destroyed most of the sugar crops where the ''jíbaros'' worked, leaving the majority unemployed.<ref name="NPR.org 2020" />