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<p>From forced disruption of native industry through mass sterilization and forced austerity, one writer argues that the only escape from mainland abuse is full Puerto Rican independence. </p> ....
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123 Years Later, the Unfinished Business of Self-Determination for Puerto Ricans 123 Years Later, the Unfinished Business of Self-Determination for Puerto Ricans Juan Declet-Barreto, Climate Vulnerability Social Scientist | March 10, 2021, 11:00 am EDT “[E]ven were Puerto Rico given each and every one of the freedoms, and the powers that such [freedom] begets, the development of such a system will be thwarted because the Union would have violated the principle upon which that system rests, which absolutely requires the will of the people to organize representative institutions.”
One of the prized possessions I brought with me to the United States is a Puerto Rican flag. Not a flimsy, cheaply-made flag on a plastic straw-like stand, the kind that you get on your way to a rally and wave around. It’s a cloth flag, water-stained and frayed by time around the edges of its white and red st ....