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Antonio S. Luchetti

However, on May 2, 1941, the newly appointed Governor Guy J. Swope finally gave his nod and signed the law creating the Autoridad de las Fuentes Fluviales.

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Luchetti tries to take advantage of this federal initiative, but encountered the opposition to this plan when the US-appointed Governor of Puerto Rico Blanton Winship vetoed the project in 1938 on the grounds that it was incompatible with the 1917 Jones-Shafroth Act.

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