a guy was a hassle and we're here to call for an end of the killing of civilians impala assign. people want freedom. they want their piece. they want their dignity. a moss does not represent palace gun a. right? that's going to do it for me for now, but just stay with us. my colleagues here at la isabel is in next in about 30 minutes with more news. bye. mm. the

we went to bed and 2017. the and woke up and it was 19 o 3, no power light a water no cell phones.

i mean it's just like nothing was working. you didn't know how your loved ones were doing except the ones that you had any immediate nationality to. ready hospitals, or without power, doctors doing procedures with the flashlight from their cell phones. so once like your on your on 40 on the, the also brain with the people of where to read. we left with the

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 it's barebones and you can really see that colonialism still exist and a few places. and for the go as one of them, the

interactions with the so 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. the sensor input, 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 paramilitary 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, who even had to be to protect my comrades from, from getting caught. so i had thought that through the,

the island of point the vehicle was 1st call and i is by spain, in 15 o 8 in 1898. it became let us call yet it has retained its own cultural identity. today, nearly 3 and a half 1000000 people live a population greater than 21 of the 50 us states would close to has to live in poverty. the puerto rico is a us territory, powerless to challenge options of the united states government. that effect exp,

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 indoor basketball court that we had made it for very eyes while the i had like a shark skin suit, which i thought was so cool. the 1st time i walk into the dining off maybe half an hour after my parents left and i felt homesickness. and as

soon as i walk into the cho take maybe 10 steps, some guy goes, hey you know, that's the 1st time i'd heard that word. let alone address did me when i went up and slapped them in the face, you know as hard as i could just. wow. 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 the senior year and over my, my professor for american history. mr. len james, you said cigna, how would you like to do a term paper in lieu of the final exam?

i said, yeah, sure. and he said want to do a paper on the spanish american war. and i did, and 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 referring to us for practically, as monkeys, in 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 trays all over the united states is about, you know, we flight the colonies, reform for independence. what are we? we're going to become a empire now. the for over 400 years. puerto rico suffered as

a spanish calling 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 the addendum, the just months after he goes to 1st election, the united states invaded the island. within 10 weeks, hopes of independence were dashed as the island was a next by the us. and then in 1970, the jones act made for the guns us citizens are like, ok, we're going to make you american citizens, which you didn't ask for. even if we were offered citizenship with happened, we would prefer the

you guys in line for a rubbing the statue or i don't know we were supposed to, i know a lot of 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 some, some young man posed so on. okay. um as a year is 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 statute was a 3 lice. ah, okay. the year the, that was my dorm room window on the top floor there. the,

as i looked down that morning i was just are going to be live. there's a mist still on the right which added to this kind of. so real quality. and there was a ring of policemen, 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 and is it as they brought you down the stairs and kicking you and hitting you until you got to the battery. i can throw you in the battery right in the field of adding right and drove it out. and then brought the next one is the answer. that was what basically made the break for me from being an advocate of peaceful change and thinking that we could change things peacefully in understanding that these guys had to be for in a different way. for me, that was the beginning, us from my radicalization the crowd man to the people inside the building. the release of come to the russian states. never as tight as on the phone and the most

sense community best. nothing was all sense and up the in the system must be the one else holes. question about this, even though, and we will then in the european union, the kremlin media mission, the state on the russians cruising and split the ortiz full neck, even our video agency, roughly all the band on youtube tv services for the question, did you say even closer to the

50 years earlier, another, puerto rican student matriculate at harvard federal id. so comes in 1921. he graduates from harvard law school with the highest grade point average and his class privilege minds of puerto rico as per ghost and was not recognized as such. because you know, he was blind for reading, so not i, on the after harvard be so campus returns to,

for the recall where he witnesses the us controlled sugar cartel, extracting higher profits from plantation workers than any other place in the world . the, the in 1934 b. so compost organizes sugarcane cutters or much it fails to strike against you as sugar confidence they are quickly met with a bloody crackdown but the strikers prevail and the wages are double to a $1.50 a day. the emboldened diesel compost forms the cadets of the republic who taken oath to find for point defeat an 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 began firing marchers and bystanders attempt to sleep 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 logical because i've also seen a long lived the republic down with the murders, the

23519 killed, including the 7 year old girl, the or 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 going up the, you know, i was like this. what did i know? and i, there wasn't until years later that i seemed to have a different historical perspective on, on the vehicle. when you know the gag 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 you be thrown into prison. the in 1948 law. 53 lay the motor garza 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 nationalist 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 47 bombers. this is the 1st time fighter planes. i tap on

the, in the mass 2000 port, the weekends are round it up and arrested the in retaliation to national. this form a plan, the outside warehouse, 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 plotters for 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 there, a bunch of fanatics that a lot of an independent puerto rico actually one of the common views is that the nationalists rose up like a bunch of and the government squashed them. in fact, it was the us government policy, the governor's 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 place. so everybody knows noticed. don't mess with the us because this is which waiting for you, the, 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, 44 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 and have it on leads them and reciting the lord's prayer. then she stands up and shouts from the gallery. v by point, equally with a long live free point thought equal wire in the house of representatives. and these police that in crowd rushing to the capital the shuttle down wild. i'm aboard or we can put out a gravity. 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. it's a crowded house for 5. congress. one are wounded in the murder rest of the time. the film grimly defiant, the woman is hustled from the angry,

menacing crowds the next time. let's 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 again, nobody paid them some way because all the other ways have been tried as a country are politically. it's not easy already punched in the way it is a big fire and i asked that i came here to be made

statements not to act as the most americans that there's no context to that is like these guys are totally insane. you know, these fanatics, pottery, gun dependence, all you know, 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 a continuous subjugation of my country, the feeling better to have anybody else 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 semester as he saw the desk of colonialism globally, but experienced it lingering on tenaciously at home. in his twenty's 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 the us was not going to change of its own accord the single savage cause of wherever though if that's the end or what he means. so, you know, at the end at the main thing is convincing in the game that will leave you in the

vice court only. so they got point by the room pick on, on my, the big get done that 3 on the look. is that pretty good handle? see the best 3 down. i mean, voice talked 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 in world war world. head there were few injuries, but hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage. go ahead. i called these actions farms propaganda. the,

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the thing to go back to the yes, the, the, the, you know, the punch was for the to pick to pick for the to just kick an image because a sudden the show of interest to shift the mobile one usually get in the family been cold economic disorder isn't about well, the so you just thought you was up,

but i need to see we have enough though. i didn't put that stuff to you. so let me, when you told me, when you bought the of the, the gaza, humanitarian crisis reaches dangerous levels. as israel orders the civilian population to leave the north with the u. m warning, it's an impossible task. a journalist is killed in 6 more are injured. as an international group of reporters comes under is really fire across the border and loving in some of their colleagues say the attack put a mouthful, the prime also ahead.

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