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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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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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