Editing Segundo Ruiz Belvis (section)

==Puerto Rican independence advocate==
[[File:Calle Prat.JPG|thumb|Calle Prat, Valparaíso, Chile. At this approximate location stood the Aubry Hotel, where Ruiz Belvis died in 1867.]]
Upon returning to Puerto Rico, Ruiz Belvis found out that the Spanish-appointed governor, José María Marchesi Oleaga, did not like the [[Liberalism|liberal]] ideas that Ruiz Belvis and his friends had; they were all banished to exile.<ref name="ND">[http://www.zonai.com/promociones/biografias/0501/index.asp El Nuevo Dia] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927074102/http://www.zonai.com/promociones/biografias/0501/index.asp |date=27 September 2011 }}</ref>

Ruiz Belvis eventually ended up in New York in 1866, where together with Betances and other patriots, he formed the "Comité Revolucionario de Puerto Rico" ([[Revolutionary Committee of Puerto Rico]]) for the independence of the island. They developed a plan to send an armed expedition to Puerto Rico, in what was to become known as the "[[Grito de Lares]]". During this time, Ruiz Belvis became ill. He still traveled to [[Valparaíso]], Chile, to raise funds for the planned revolution.<ref name="ND"/>

Ruiz Belvis died in Valparaiso on 3 November 1867. He died before the uprising the next year—"Grito de Lares"—which failed. Slavery was finally abolished in Puerto Rico on 22 March 1873. He is buried in the chapel of the Cemetery of Hormigueros.<ref>[http://puertoricogallery.blogspot.com/2008/04/mausoleo-de-segundo-ruiz-belvis.html Mausoleo de Segundo Ruiz Belvis]</ref>