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For more than two years, the United States government has used the armed forces of its Zionist settler colony, “Israel,” to carry out a brutal genocide in Palestine. As protests erupted across the world to visibly resist the ongoing genocide, Puerto Rico answered the call. As a colony since 1493, we understand the reality of having no control over your land and daily life. We have been held by the unrelenting grip of US colonial rule for more than 127 years. Forced displacement, sterilization, bombings, arrests, and assassinations are some of the overlapping features of colonial domination in Puerto Rico […]
This article is lightly edited from its original format, “In the Line of Fire: Occupied Puerto Rico and the U.S. War on Venezuela,” published by the Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective in The Pen is My Machete, Vol. 1, Issue 3. In recent weeks, Puerto Rico has once again become a forward operating base for imperialist war games in the Caribbean. Off the southern coast, U.S. Navy sailors and Marines practice amphibious landings while a fleet of F-35 fighter jets, P-8 maritime surveillance aircraft, and MQ-9 reaper drones are deployed to one or more U.S. military installations occupying more than 78,000 acres […]
Esencia is a massive $2 billion colonial development project aiming to seize over 2,000 acres of land, spanning three miles of beaches in Punta Melones, Cabo Rojo, by 2028. The United States has long justified its imperial presence in Puerto Rico under the guise of “progress” and “development.” With the complicity of a local government that prioritizes U.S. interests, policies like Act 60—which grants foreign investors the ability to evade local and federal taxes—serve Puerto Rico on a silver platter to wealthy developers, speculators, and those eager to claim and exploit a slice of “paradise.” While Puerto Ricans face life-threatening […]
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 […]