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A disturbing incidents as would model. Every one of the settlers tried to hit us with the rocks they threw. Besides the rock that pierced our car. Later with the next day, we discovered the mode of cocktail as well, but it hasnt been late to them with those with me in the car started screaming and the mazda in front of us. We had to set the doors inside, pulled or they were wearing wide shirts and key fall like your settlers. And i remember their skin appeared somewhat. Fred zanes reaction was normal for a child who had just experienced a traumatic incident. He was already in the state of showing, due to his brothers accident on call mt. How do think it is now after being beaten and bleeding . You know how children are. They are afraid a lot. There is no such thing as protection as the fact is that a 10 year old childs life was endangered. And a he experienced it fewer and tell her son be right there is much more still ahead on the 2nd and final day of the g. 20 summit as it gets under way to stay with us here on our t international. The the, [000 00 00;00] the we went to bed and 2017 and woke up and it was 19 o 3. No. Lights, no water. No cell phones. I mean is just like nothing was working, you didnt know how your loved ones were doing except the ones and you had you need immediate initiating. Ready hospitals or without power, doctors doing procedures with the flashlight from their cell phones. So once like youre on your, on 40 on the, the, the role. So brain with the people that we have to re, real up with the web. And we also love puerto rico the response to maria was really like a poster child of, of the relationship between, you know, puerto rico and, and the United States. The situation in murray. It was not just created by maria, but what it, maria lays bare the reality. It strips it down to the bare bones. And you can really see that colonialism still exists in a few places. And for today, go as one of them, the directions were getting to those a yes, it is possible to resist break the colonized mentality that these guys can be part of that theres nothing we can do to change the situation. The sensor input, the in the 1970s, when once that guy was in his early twenties, he chose to fight for the independence of his homeland. Although many, Puerto Ricans were angry to buy a lack of medical latan. Only a small percentage advocated full independence from the United States. Even fewer chose ones past of parent military operations and robbing banks. The last one i did was 33 years ago in the most of the times, my role was as the protection against the Police Coming so i was ready to engage in gunfire if it had to be to protect my comrades from, from getting caught. So i had thought that through the, the island of point dont recall, was 1st colonized by spain in 15 o 8 in 1898. It became a us called yet it has retained its own cultural identity. Today, nearly 3 and a half 1000000 people. A population greater than 21. 00 of the 50 us states would close to house and living in poverty. The puerto rico is a us territory. Powerless to challenge options of the United States government that effective residents have no vote in congress or in president ial elections. The we had a subscription to Time Magazine and there was an issue in which the cover story was on prep schools in the us. And i read it and, and over was covered prominently there. And it said they had 7 Indoor Basketball Court that we had made it for very, as a wow. The i had like a shark skin suit, which i thought was so cool. The 1st time i walk into the dining hall, maybe half an hour after my parents left and i felt homesickness. And as soon as i walk into the show and take maybe 10 steps, some guy goes, hey, you know, thats the 1st time id heard that word, let alone addressed in me. But i went up and slapped him in the face. You know, as hard as i could do something and he was so shocked that he didnt do anything. And i went into the, to the co room, to have my coat and then go into the, the dining room. And you know, i said, holy, what if ive gotten myself for the senior year and over my, my professor for american history, mr. Less james, he said, so how would you like to do a term paper in lieu of the final exam . I said yeah, sure. And he said, why dont you do a paper on the spanish american war . And i didnt, i came to our door in the library to bottles of the library to read the congressional record. And theres nothing like reading these guys talk on filtered on the one side. It was referring to us for practically as monkeys, in like the brown races and this and that are going away. And then you had guys like a William Jennings bryan and the anti imperialist, saying this be trays all over the United States has about, well, you know, we, for the colonies, referral for independence. What are we . Were going to become a empire now. The for over 400 years for adult eco suffered as a spanish colon but in 1897, spain granted the island, a degree of autonomy. Many hopes that this was a step towards independence. But it turned out to be the just months after, when he goes to 1st election to the United States, invaded the item within 10 weeks, hopes of independence were dashed as the island was a next by the us. And then in 1917, the jones act made forward so he can see us citizen, the like, ok, were gonna make you american citizens, which you didnt ask for. Even if we were offered citizenship and hasnt we would prefer the you guys in line for a rubbing the statue or i dont know we were supposed to im i know a lot of the a lot of people doing it. So there you go. Ok. Whos next . But i do know that thats not john harvard know that theres no because he was dead by the time they did that. So some, some young man posed. So all done, okay. Is this a year is not right. And he wasnt just the founder because he was one of of a whole lot of so thats why they say this was the statue was a 3 lies. Oh, okay. About the year the that was my dorm room window on the top floor there. The, as i looked down that morning i was just starting to be light. It was a mist still on the yard which added to this kind of serial quality. And there was a ring of policeman setting up an outer perimeters. I mean, they all had these elements on visors and they set up a gauntlet on, on this door here. And you could hear the screaming and Everything Else and then started seeing the guys students who were in the building being evicted, one by one the, the bigger everybody. I just pulled it on him is as they brought you down the stairs, a kicking you and heating you until you got to the battery. I can throw you in the battery where i can fill the paddy wagon, drove it out and then brought to an extra one of the stuff that was, was basically made the break for me from being an advocate of peaceful change and thinking that we could change things peacefully, the understanding that these guys had to be for in a different way. For me that was the beginning of my radicalization the crowd, man, the people inside the building, the the price of the last and the client or the rest of these until it was simple for know about what we should do east, east or west, north to south be much per phone to boot solidarity and Global Corporation of the year start the kind of the world has never seen. So east, west and on. So we have one time really wants the good 50 years earlier. Another point though he can student matriculate at harvard federal id. So comes in 1921. He graduates from Harvard Law School with the highest grade point average and his class privilege minds. A puerto utilized for ghost and was not recognized as such because you know, he was blackboard reading, so not out the in master harvard. Id be so compos returns to a point, dont recall where he witnesses the us controlled sugar cartels, extracting higher profits from plantation workers. Than any other place in the world, the in 1934 b. So compost organizes sugarcane cutters, or much of data to strike against us sugar companies. They are quickly met with a bloody crackdown but the strikers prevail. And the wages are double to a 1. 50 a day. The emboldened diesel campus forms the cadets of the republic who take an oath to fight for point the week of independence. On palm sunday, 1937. They plan a peaceful march. At the last minute, the colonial governor revokes their permit to assemble and they are surrounded by 200 police. Some armed with thompson, the on the police begin firing. Marchers and bystanders attempt to sleep the flag. There is the 1st of these killed a 7 Year Old Girl picks up the flag and she is a medium shot. The a wounded cadet drags himself to the wall and writes in his own blood. Viva la republica. Ive also seen a long lived the republic down with the murders the 23519 killed including the 7 Year Old Girl. The 20000 mourners attend the funeral ceremonies. The none of the police are held accountable. The i didnt know any of that. When i was growing up the, you know, i was like this, what did i know . And i, it wasnt until years later that i sent me on to have a different Historical Perspective on, on for the vehicle. Been, you know, the guide law that made flying the board or you can slide by itself illegal and punishable by prison. You know, you can speak in favor of independence or to be thrown into prison. The in 1948 law, 53, lay the more data known as the gag order makes it a crime to display a puerto rican flag speaking out for independence or seen a patriotic point. 30 can song can lead to 10 years in prison. In 1950 nationalist across the island read the staging, coordinated attacks on police station, the Governors Mansion and the us federal court. The National Guard responds with heavy artillery motors for need and p. 47 bob. This the 1st time us fighter planes attack on the, in the aftermath, 2000 Puerto Ricans around it up and arrested the in retaliation to nationalist former plan, the outside warehouse, the president s temporarily. Washington homes. Extreme fanatics of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party tried to force their way in guns blazing to assassinate the president of the United States. Assassin, oscar, colorado, and 2 other guards are wounded as the plotters for washingtons emergency hospital. The 24 hour guard watches over co, you also who despite a chest wound great covers to face trial for murder, have tried kill me. And i knew that theyd try it again. I knew who they were there, a bunch of fanatics that a lot of an independent puerto rico actually one of the common views is that the nationalist rose up like a bunch of and the government squashed them. In fact, it was the Us Government policy, the governors policy to push these guys into a corner and get them to a point where its either give up or go down the fire and so they were pushed into that situation. And then of course, they responded and for crushed and crow a single way that is like, you know, like when they do, when they put the invaders, you know, put down all the freedom fighters, cut their heads off and put them on a place. So Everybody Knows knows that dont mess with us because this is which waiting for you, the why was approached by somebody. I trusted very much. You said listeners saw the underground movement is being organized in puerto rico for independence. And you know, we think youre a good candidate. What hits i said. Yes. The in 1954, 4. 3 kids living in new york decide that they are willing to sacrifice their lives for independence. Communicating from prison a be so campus presents them with admission to bring the fight for independence to the american public. Purchases new sunday dress clothes advise one way. Tickets to washington dc. Then they enter the us Capital Building while congress is in session. Never on leads them and reciting the lords prayer. Then she stands up and shouts from the gallery. V by point the only way. Long live freeport thought equal wire in the house of representatives and these police and crowds rushing to the capital, the shovel then wild. Im a puerto rican fanatic Raphael Miranda is photograph moments after he and a bottle of terrorist Andres Cordero at joined with the lead on that problem and buying more than 20 shop sets and crowded house for 5 congress. When our wounded the rest of the sale grimly defiant, the woman is hustled from the angry, menacing crowds the best time to see them from night. And that i would like this to happen today. Awake because a man of good, well have the government United States to pay for the recall immediately the headings times again, nobody paid them some way because of all their ways have been tried to not wake on the on the continued any way. It is to get a fire and i say i came here to be made statements not to act as the most americans. And theres no context to that. Its like these guys are totally insane. You know, these fanatics are pottery, gun dependence. So you know, when weve done such good for them, how good they do that the the criminal investigation reveals that no lead delivered on fired her weapon into the ceiling, harming no one the Capital Police find a note in her handbag. My life i give for the freedom of my country the United States has be trained the sacred principles of mankind with the continuous subjugation of my country. The a feeling better to all head ideals was born in puerto rico in the 19 thirtys. As a child, he saw his grandparents lose their land to the north American Sugar monopolies. He witnessed the slaughter of the one semester. He saw the death of colonialism globally, but experienced it lingering on tenaciously at home. In his twentys already and accomplished jazz musician, he gave up his career as a trumpet player and began to fight for independence. The. It was clear to feeling better to hear that, that the us was not going to change of its own accord the single savvy cause of wherever it all if thats and all. But he knew. So, you know, at the end at the main thing is convincing me in the get the only be in the vice court only so big a boy by the room that going on my, that a big get done that 3 and the world look at that pretty good handle. See the best 3 on any make or set about about the the in the fall of 1969, dozens of bombs began exploding in puerto rico and us based hotels, casinos and Department Stores like sheraton, howard johnsons. And well work for all his there were few injuries, but hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage. Go ahead. I called these actions farms propaganda the of the we are in august on one of the most ethically and culturally diverse regions on the entire planet. As you make your way through the start, you will discover each region is known for its own unique arts and traditions. 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