# BoricuaReceipts Source Packet - El huracán que mandó boricuas a Hawái

Date: 2026-09-14
Public archive status: promoted to site inventory after the scheduled YouTube Short went live.
YouTube Short: https://youtube.com/shorts/bHpp-D4FInA
Archive slug: `el-huracan-que-mando-boricuas-a-hawai`
Source continuity: this live episode uses the Hawaii migration source-lock, final caption/source packet, and posting receipt listed below.

## Public Title

`El huracán que mandó boricuas a Hawái`

## Source-Safe Thesis

The title is a hook, not a single-cause claim. San Ciriaco helped create the economic pressure, but the migration route to Hawaiʻi also depended on poverty, U.S. colonial control, and Hawaiian sugar interests recruiting Puerto Rican laborers.

## Receipt Spine

- The Centro Journal source trail says the first group of 56 arrived in Hawaiʻi on December 23, 1900, followed by ten more groups for 5,203 men, women, and children.
- The same source ties the migration to San Ciriaco's devastation and to the Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association recruiting laborers after Puerto Rico became a U.S. colony.
- The public copy keeps the safer count as more than 5,000 unless the sharper 5,203 figure is attached directly to the clipped source.
- U.S. Census Bureau material counts 4,890 Puerto Ricans in Hawaiʻi in 1910.
- The episode frames the migration as disaster, poverty, colony, and sugar recruitment, not tourism or a simple weather story.

## Guardrails

- Do not claim San Ciriaco alone caused the migration.
- Do not use 5,883 publicly until its underlying source is clipped and reconciled.
- Keep "more than 5,000" as the public count unless the 5,203 source receipt is visible.
- Do not frame Hawaiʻi as vacation or postcard scenery.
- Do not present illustrative visuals as documentary evidence unless they come from the source packet.

## Sources

- Austin Dias, "Carlo Mario Fraticelli: A Puerto Rican Poet on the Sugar Plantations of Hawai'i," Centro Journal, Spring 2001.
- U.S. Census Bureau, `Hawaii - Race and Hispanic Origin: 1900 to 1990`, Table 26.
- EnciclopediaPR, `The Puerto Rican Diaspora in the United States: Its Population and Historical Evolution`: https://en.enciclopediapr.org/content/puerto-rican-diaspora-in-the-usa/
- Duke University Libraries, `Nation on the Move - Rural Migration: Hawaii`: https://exhibits.library.duke.edu/exhibits/show/espada/rural-migration--hawaii
- U.S. Census Bureau, `Report on the Census of Porto Rico, 1899`: https://www.census.gov/library/publications/1900/dec/1899-census-porto-rico.html
- YouTube Short: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bHpp-D4FInA

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