A Taina/Boricua Youth's perspective. Keeping the memory of the ancestors alive.
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 …
Continue reading Luis Muñoz Marin: Puerto Rico’s Parasitic Governor
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.
Hatuey was a great Taino Cacique and Waribo (warrior). Even though Hatuey was killed in 1512 we can see the spirit of his resistance reverberating in movements ever since. To understand Hatuey's story we must understand the Taino way of life before the Spaniards landed on our shores. The Taino lived on the islands of …
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, …
Continue reading Las Carpetas: How the FBI spied on over 100,000 Puerto Ricans
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 …
Continue reading Song of the Week: La Borinqueña by Danny Rivera
“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 …
Continue reading 55 years since the death of Don Pedro Albizu Campos (1892-1965).
Voice of the Water Lily 