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Puerto Rico has been a colony of the United States since 1898, used as a launching pad for imperialist wars in the Caribbean, Latin America, and the rest of the world. The US Department of Defense has eleven unified Combatant Commands, one of which, US Southern Command (or SOUTHCOM, headquartered in Miami, Florida) oversees US military operations in the region of Latin America and the Caribbean. The SOUTHCOM Naval Forces station was previously located in Puerto Rico, which allowed for the US to move throughout Central and South America and the Caribbean, and defend the US-occupied Panama Canal. SOUTHCOM’s primary […]
*Español abajo* This document speaks directly from our position as a diasporic people living outside of the archipelago. The specific nature and trajectory of social, political, and economic transformation in Borikén must be developed organically by our people on the islands. We reject the confused, paternalistic mindset which suggests that we in the diaspora can determine the character, direction, and terms of struggle for those living in the colony. We have attempted to carefully walk this line by highlighting some of the core crises facing Puerto Ricans in the archipelago (e.g. colonial status; privatization of the electrical grid; violence against […]