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"Telecomunicaciones con un propósito" ("Telecommunications with a Purpose") is a research paper that looks at the origins and development of Public Communications in Puerto Rico from 1942 to 1961. The creation of Puerto Rico's Communications Authority in 1942-while Rexford Tugwell served as Designated Governor and Luis Muñoz Marín as President of the Senate in Puerto Rico-is the starting point for examining the Puerto Rican government's plans for the development of the telegraph, telephone, radio and public television. This project led, in 1961, to the creation of WIPM-TV, Channel 3, as part of the Department of Public Instruction's Radio and Television Service. This essay provides a reappraisal of the work of Rafael Delgado Márquez, who, as first Administrator of Puerto Rico's Communications Authority, first General Manager of WKAQ-TV and first General Administrator of WIPR-TV, emerges as the most influencial figure in the development of Public Telecommunications in Puerto Rico. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]