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Don Pedro Albizu Campos; Genius revolutionary, Boricua Hero (second revised edition)

Many don't know his name. He was the president of the Partido Nationalista Puerto Rico. He called for armed revolution, simultaneous uprisings in towns around Puerto Rico, and an attack on La Fortaleza. But we have to ask, why? Why did he do these things? Was he a psychopath who tried to violently overthrow the United States? Or was this born from a profound need for extreme actions? We cannot fully understand him or his valiant fight for independence without understanding the circumstances from which he evolved. Some call him a terrorist, and others call him a hero. This is the story of Pedro Albizu Campos, known affectionately by many as Don Pedro.

Luis Muñoz Marin: Puerto Rico’s Parasitic Governor

Luis Munoz Marin rose from being, in all estimations, one big failure to being a senator and later the governor of Puerto Rico. It was quite a feat, but what he did with his newly acquired power was another story. Marin declared martial law to quell the 1950 Nationalist uprisings, had two towns in Puerto …

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Vidal Santiago Diaz: How one barber stood up to U.S colonialism

On October 30, 1950 Vidal Santiago Diaz and 41 Police and National guardsmen engaged in a 3 hour gunfight. The police and guardsmen were convionced there were at least 20 to 30 Nationalists inside. Here is the story of how one barber held 41 heavily armed police and National guardsmen at bay for 3 hours, was shot 5 times, once at point blank range in the head and still survived.

Don Pedro Albizu Campos; a genius revolutionary (revised version with podcast)

Listen to my podcast about Don Pedro here: https://anchor.fm/anani-kaike/embed/episodes/Remembering-A-Revolutionary-Genius-e1dmg3j https://anchor.fm/anani-kaike/episodes/Remembering-A-Revolutionary-Genius-e1dmg3j Please note the blog post goes into more detail on the topics discussed on the podcast. Each generation has to gather the ashes of their elders. Those who do not revere the ashes of their elders are truly dead; the ones who are extinguished in …

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Las Carpetas: How the FBI spied on over 100,000 Puerto Ricans

Carpetas, started by governor Blanton Whinship in the 1930's, were used to systematically spy on thousands of Puerto Ricans from the 1930's to the 1980's. It was so widespread it even became a verb in Puerto Rico, te carpetearon. Carpetas contained secret police dossiers that included a realm of personal information. Calls would be tapped, …

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Song of the Week: La Borinqueña by Danny Rivera

Recently I heard an incredible version of 'La Borinqueña' by The National Voice Of Puerto Rico, Danny Rivera (b.1945). What struck me was that the version Rivera chose to sing was not the official anthem of Puerto Rico, however the revolutionary version written in 1868 by Lola Rodriguez de Tio. In my opinion, this is …

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55 years since the death of Don Pedro Albizu Campos (1892-1965).

“When tyranny is law, revolution is order.”“A people full of courage and dignity cannot be conquered by any imperialism.”“The Americans have nothing to offer the world unless it be the destruction of their own empire. The American empire is a curse even to it’s own people”“Those who do not respect the ashes of their elders …

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