Today (September 23, 2011) in Puerto Rico, many towns and organizations are commemorating the 1868 pro-independence insurrection known as “El Grito de Lares.” In “El Grito de Lares resiste el paso del tiempo” [El Grito de Lares Withstands the Passing of Time] Alba Y. Muñiz Gracia (El Nuevo Día), writes that “today, 143 years after…