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Sunday, October 30, 2011

October 30th, 1950; Puerto Rico's Nationalist uprising

Text from Nothing to Be Gained Here:


"On October 30th of 1950 a Puerto Rican woman by the name of Blanca Canales led an uprising in the mountain town of Jayuya. Under her leadership the Nationalists took Jayuya and Blanca Canales declared Puerto Rico a free republic. At the same time in the town of Utado Nationalists were fighting the US National Guard and other Nationalists were attacking “La Forteleza” the governors mansion in San Juan and the Federal Court House in Old San Juan.
Blanca Canales and the Nationalists were successful in holding Jayuya for three days until the US military bombed them from the air and sent in ground troops
[...]
The Nationalists may have failed to free Puerto Rico but they succeeded in keeping the US from hiding it’s colonial possession with semantic Orwellian double speak like “Free Associated State”… The Nationalists succeeded in making it be known all over the world that Puerto Rico wanted to be free and was willing to fight to do so"
(image of National Guard invading Jayuya)
Posted by SkidMarquez at 7:29 PM
Labels: Diversion, Endless Distraction, History, Incarcerations, Latinos/as, Nationalism, Politics, Radicalism, Warfare

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