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we went to bed and 2017. the and woke up and it was 19. 03. no. power. light a water. no cellphones. i mean it's just like nothing was working. you didn't know how your loved ones were doing except the ones and you had you need immediate, initiating the hospitalization without power, doctors doing procedures with buildings,

flashlights on their cellphone's cell. once like your on your on 40 on the, the also brain with the people of where to read. we love with with and we also love puerto rico, the new response to maria was really like a poster child of, of the relationship between, you know,

puerto rico and, and the united states. the situation in mario is not just created by maria, but what is maria plays fair the reality. it strips it down to, to its barebones. and you can really see that colonialism still exists in a few places. and for today, go as one of the directions where people say yes, it is possible to resist break the colonize mentality,

that these guys can be part of that there's nothing we can do to change the situation that sensor and protect the, in the 19 seventy's. when once that guy was in his early twenties, he chose to fight for the independence of his homeland. although many, puerto ricans were angered by a lack of political economy. only a small percentage advocated full independence from the united states. even fewer chose ones past of parent military operations and robbing banks. the last one i did was 33 years ago in the most of the times

my role was as the protection against the police coming. so i was ready to engage in gunfire. if it had to be to protect my comrades from, from getting caught. so i had thought that through the, the island of point article was 1st colonized by spain in 15 o 8. in 1898. it became

a westcan. yet it has retained its own cultural identity. today, nearly 3 and a half 1000000 people, a population greater than 21 of the 50 us states with close to has to live in poverty. the puerto rico is a us territory, powerless to challenge options of the united states government. that affected spe, residents have no vote in congress or in presidential elections. the . we had a subscription to time magazine and there was an issue in which the cover story was

on prep schools in the us. and i read it and, and over was covered prominently there. and it said they had 7 into our basketball court that we had made it for very, as a while the i had like a shark skin suit, which i thought was so cool. the 1st time i walk into the dining hall, maybe half an hour after my parents left and i felt homesickness. and as soon as i walk into the show and take maybe 10 steps, some guy goes, hey, you know, that's the 1st time i'd heard that word, let alone addressed in me. but i went up and slapped them in the face. you know,

as hard as i could do something, why? and he was so shocked that he didn't do anything. and i went into the, to the co room, to have my coat and then go into the dining room. and you know, i said holy, what if i've gotten myself for sure. if this was the senior year and over my, my professor for american history, mr. len james, he said, so how would you like to do a term paper in lieu of the final exam? yeah, sure, and he said, why don't you do a paper on the spanish american war? and i didn't, i came to our door in the library to bottles of the library to read the congressional record. and there's nothing like reading these guys talk on filtered

on the one side. it was those referring to us for practically as monkeys. and like the round races and this and that are going away. and then you had guys like a william jennings bryan and the anti imperialist, saying this be trace all over the united states is about, we know we for the colonies, referral for independence, what are we? we're going to become a buyer. now. the for over 400 years where does equal suffered as a spanish call in but in 1897, spain granted the island, a degree of autonomy. many hopes that this was a step towards independence. but it turned out to be a dead. the just months after point though,

he goes to 1st election, the united states invaded the items within 10 weeks. hopes of independence were dashed as the island was a next by the us. and then in 1917, the jones act made forward so he can see us citizens like ok, we're going to make you american citizens, which you didn't ask for even if we were offered citizenship with had and we would prefer the you guys in line for a rubbing the statue or i don't know we were supposed to and all i see a lot of people doing it. so there you go. okay. who's next?

i do know that that's not john harvard know that there's no because he was dead by the time they did that. so it was some, some young man posed so on. okay. um as the years not right. and he wasn't just the founder because he was one of, of a whole lot of so that's why they say this was the statue was a 3 lice. ah, okay. the year the was my dorm room window on the top floor there. the as i look down that morning i was just starting to be like there was a mist still on the yard which added to this kind of so real quality.

and there was a ring of policeman setting up an outer perimeters. i mean, they all had these elements on visors and they set up a gauntlet on, on this door here. and you could hear the screaming and everything else and then started seeing the guys students who were in the building being evicted, one by one. the bigger everybody, i just pulled it on him. is it as they brought you down the stairs, a kicking you and hitting you until you got to the battery. i can throw you in the battery right and filled a padding right and drove it out. and then brought the next one, and that was

what basically made the break for me from being an advocate of peaceful change and thinking that we could change things peaceful in understanding with these guys had to be for in a different way. for me, that was the beginning, us from my radicalization, the crowd, man, the people inside the building, the known in vietnam, american war, the vietnam war lost it for almost 2 decades and dragged in numerous countries. not any written down. you can just say now, why did all i'm empty? hundreds of thousands of american troops was sent to the country to back the south vietnamese on me. i got

them the, not much to supply. the american soldiers murdered resistors mercilessly burned down entire villages and spread dangerous chemicals. and lee. by all right, did the americans ever fully acknowledge what they did on the vietnamese veterans ready to forgive? yes, yes. that's the way to the center for the most. definitely expensive out them last concept clear what i q as when from the, from the best of ours, from the end of the way to do it in b, c,

differing. you can keep the way in the pollutants, just give us an edge. it's on the shift store and what's the progressive? colonial bulk of the crucial just means. still the most of the hosting is with the bonus between these 2 so they usually will live actually, to interview, to fix that will be a good, always send somebody. i'm just putting on those issue the new system, anything and that will set them up. and you will think about 15 days ago, so i don't see this material, but it, let's just put in the so play you need to locate those. my tell me, i'm still open and it doesn't happen often the degree is so many of you let me see those pictures as a country. yes, please. and your opinion on this plan you have so the most to is the most out of

special. this is openings and it took you to, to discuss the 50 years earlier, another puerto rican student matriculate at harvard federal i'll be so compass in 1921. he graduates from harvard law school with the highest grade point average in his class privilege minds. a pottery glass produced and was not recognized as such because you know, he was blind for reading. so not out the after harvard be so come 1st returns to for the recall where he

witnesses the us controlled sugar cartels, extracting higher profits from plantation workers than any other place in the world . the in 1934 be so complex. organize as sugarcane cutters, or much of data to strike against us, sugar companies. they are quickly met with a bloody crackdown but the strikers present. and the wages are double to a $1.50 a day. the emboldened diesel compost forms the cadets of the republic who taken an oath to fight for point the week of independence. on palm sunday, 1937. they plan a peaceful march. at the last minute,

the colonial governor revokes their permit to assemble and they are surrounded by 200 police. some armed with thompson, the on the police begin firing. marchers and bystanders attempt to flee the flag. there is the 1st to be killed. a 7 year old girl picks up the flag and she is a medium shot. the a wounded cadet drags himself to the wall and writes in his own blood, viva la republica. hullo, seniors? long lived the republic, down with the murders, the

$235.00. 19 killed including the 7 year old girl. the 20000 mourners attend the funeral ceremonies. the none of the police are held accountable. the i didn't know any of that. when i was growing up the, you know, i was like this what it, i know. and i, it wasn't until years later that i sent me on to have a different historical perspective on, on for today go, you know, the guide law. they may find the board or you can slide by itself illegal and

punishable by prison. you know, you can speak in favor of independence or to be thrown into prison. the in 1948 law, 53, lay the more data known as the gag order makes it a crime to display a puerto rican flag speaking out for independence or seen a patriotic point. 30 can song can lead to 10 years in prison. in 1950 nationalists across the island read the staging. coordinated attacks on police station, the governor's mansion and the u. s. federal courthouse. the national guard responds with heavy artillery mortars for need and p. 47. bob. this is the 1st time fighter planes. i tap on

the, in the aftermath, 2004, deacons around it, up and arrested the in retaliation to national. this form a plan, the outside blair house, the presidents temporarily, washington homes, extreme fanatics of the puerto rican nationalist party, tried to force their way in guns, blazing to assassinate the president of the united states. assassin, oscar, colorado and 2 other guards are wounded as the but as far as washington's emergency hospital. the 24 hour guard watches over co. you also who despite

a chest wound drake covers to face trial for murder. they have tried to kill me, and i knew that they tried again. i knew who they were. they are a bunch of fanatics that a lot of an independent puerto rico actually one of the common views is that the nationalist rose up like a bunch of and the government squashed them. in fact, it was the us government policy, the governors policy to push these guys into a corner and get them to a point where it's either give up or go down and fight and so they were pushed into that situation. and then of course, they responded and thought crushed and crushing away that is like, you know, like when they do, when they put the invaders, you know,

put down all the freedom fighters, cut their heads off and put them on a price. everybody knows noticed, don't mess with the us because this is which waiting for you, the why was approached by somebody. i trusted very much. and you said listeners saw the underground movement is being organized in puerto rico for independence. and, you know, we think you're a good candidate. what do you say? i said, yes. the in 1954 for, for adult ricans, living in new york, decide that they are willing to sacrifice their lives for independence. communicating from prison,

diesel campus presents them with admission to bring the fight for independence to the american public. purchases new sunday dress clothes advised one way. tickets to washington dc. then they enter the us capital building. now congress is in session, lead time, never on leads them and reciting the lord's prayer. then she stands up and shouts from the gallery. v by point the only way, long live free point, thought equal. wire in the house of representatives and the police that in crowd rushing to the capital the shuttle down wild. i'm aboard or we can put out a graphic i'm or i'm that is photograph moments after he and wrist. andres cordero at joined with the lead on that problem, and buying more than 20 shops at the crowded house for 5 congress. when our wounded and the murderous, the sail grimly defiant, the woman is hustled from the angry,

menacing crowds the next time. see them from iceland and i would like this to happen today, awake because of the amount of good will not the government united states to pay for the recall immediately the headings times. okay. nobody to ask for freedom from wayne because all the other ways have been tried as a country, a political, it's not easy, only continue the way. it is a good 8 press on the fire and i asked that i came here yesterday made statements,

not to the most americans that there's no context to that. it's like these guys are totally insane. you know, these fanatics, pottery, gun dependence. so you know, when we've done such good for them, how good they do that the the criminal investigation reveals that no lead delivered on fired her weapon into the ceiling, harming no one the capital police find a note in her hand bag. my life i give for the freedom of my country. the united states has to be trained the sacred principles of mankind with the continuous subjugation of my country, the feeling better all head audio was born in puerto rico in the 1930s.

as a child, he saw his grandparents lose their land to the north american sugar monopolies. he witnessed the slaughter of the ones that massacre. he saw the death of colonialism globally, but experienced it lingering on tenaciously at home. in his twenties, already and accomplished jazz musician, he gave up his career as a trumpet player and began to fight for independence. it was clear to feeling better to hear that that the us was not going to change of its own accord the single savage cause of wherever though if that's in the albany meal or 0 at the end of the day is going busy in the big game. that will leave you in the vice court only. so

they got point by the room that going on my the biggest on that 3 on the look is that pretty good handle. see the, the best 3 down. and i make more set about about the, the in the fall of 1969, dozens of bombs began exploding and puerto rico and us based hotels, casinos in department stores like sheraton, howard johnson's. and we'll work for all head there were few injuries, but hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage. go ahead. i called these actions farms propaganda the

now can you use visa deployed here yet to nothing terms in the book. and that's just me, but it gets to that the only showcase is use the skinny to the by the ways that the boys the, the most noun that will be for them. i'm not sure if this slaughter doesn't want that extra them. but adults up under that to the

community, we are in no way preventing anyone from contacting anyone. it is the west that is running around the world, trying to get others to block diplomatic contact with us. they are not succeeding, but they keep trying with the russian foreign minister, slums western powers for a colonial other to it's towards the global side. as the g 20 summit wraps up in new delhi and it is from there, we're continuing to bring you our special coverage from the high ranking gathering on, you know, the world news is a debt soul from the gulf coast, devastating crates of buses, 2000 we have from low cost about their old deal. when i heard that my neighbor was trapped into the rubble of her house, we rushed to save her. i was saved by my name.