Rubén Berríos, President of the Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP), informed of a plan to create committees of solidarity with Puerto Rico throughout the dozens of countries of the region, which are spread throughout two continents (North America and South America, as well as in the Caribbean Basin region).
On August 1, 2013, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held a hearing on Puerto Rico's status as a direct result of the 2012 plebiscite vote and invited Governor Alejandro García Padilla, Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi, and pro-independence supporter Rubén Berríos to give testimony and answer questions from the committee.
His first wife was Swedish and his son Rubén was born in Stockholm).
Rubén Darío | Ruben Studdard | Rubén Sierra | Rubén Blades | Ruben Blades | Rubén Olivares | Rubén Darío Paredes | Rubén Fuentes | Ruben Brown | Rubén Berríos | Ruben Rausing | Ruben and the Jets | Rubén Amaro, Sr. | Pedro Ruben Decima | Cruising with Ruben & the Jets | Rubén Zamora | Ruben Vardanian | Rubén Tejada | Rubén Sanz | Ruben Sanz | Ruben Santiago-Hudson | Rubén Rivera | Rubén Ortiz Torres | Ruben Ortiz Torres | Rubén Magnano | Ruben Kruger | Ruben Hinojosa | Rubén Amaro, Jr. | Ruben Amaro | Christian Ruben |
In 2000, Calderón led the Popular Democratic Party (PPD) during a close campaign for Governor against Carlos Pesquera (PNP) and Rubén Berríos (PIP).