PR plebiscites are not the answer

The Public Broadcasting System (PBS) featured the November 3, 2020 plebiscite for Puerto Rico statehood. Click on the following link to watch that video:  https://youtu.be/JseXISKDj2s

Why are Puerto Ricans trying to solve democratically our sovereignty being stolen from us in 1898? Why do we believe that that is the correct way? On the contrary, and like the activists said in the video, these plebiscites are just a distraction.

We are a United States (US) colony, not because we democratically voted for it. The US government (USG) militarily invaded Puerto Rico 122 years ago to do that. We are still today a militarily occupied nation! But, Puerto Rican schools don’t teach us that. https://youtu.be/yXBpR6c-jAI

Puerto Rican schools don’t also teach us that the USG is committing a crime against humanity by maintaining Puerto Rico as its colony against the United Nations’ (UN) Charter of 1945.

Puerto Rican schools don’t also teach us that the USG has ignored 39 UN resolutions asking it to immediately return Puerto Rico’s sovereignty to the Puerto Ricans. http://webtv.un.org/watch/5th-meeting-committee-of-24-special-committee-on-decolonization/6051725003001/  

If Puerto Ricans schools would teach us that, instead of continuing holding useless plebiscites, we would be engaged in permanent resistance to force the USG to comply with international law.

The UN will be commencing in January 1, 2021 its 4^th International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism. If the oldest and most populated colony in the world would take the lead in resisting colonialism, we could help make that happen! www.TodosUnidosDescolonizarPR.blogspot.com

Democracy doesn’t work with outlaws.  

Estadidad para PR sería imposible aún con 100%

52% de los boricuas votaron por la estadidad estadounidense en el plebiscito del 3 de noviembre de 2020. El gobierno de Estados Unidos (GEU) dijo que eso es insuficiente para admitir a Puerto Rico en su Unión. Oprima el siguiente enlace para leer ese artículo: http://www.elexpresso.com/593_puerto-rico/7248402_lider-democrata-en-puerto-rico-pide-a-congresista-respetar-resultado-de-plebiscito.html

Los boricuas deberíamos estudiar la historia del GEU para entender que la estadidad para Puerto Rico es una imposibilidad.

El GEU nos ven como una raza inferior. Por eso fue que el GEU se aseguró que dijera en el Tratado de Paris de 1898 que, los derechos de los nativos cedidos por España a Estados Unidos serán determinados por el Congreso de Estados Unidos. Dicho de otra manera, los boricuas no tenemos derecho alguno que el GEU nos tenga que respectar. El GEU quiere mantener a Puerto Rico como su colonia para siempre. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uOabch_jSo&t=132s

Si queremos realmente descolonizarnos, deberíamos hacer resistencia permanente para obligar al GEU a cumplir con la Carta de la Organización de Naciones Unidas (ONU) que prohíbe el colonialismo desde el 1945. http://webtv.un.org/watch/5th-meeting-committee-of-24-special-committee-on-decolonization/6051725003001/

Si queremos descolonizarnos de verdad, deberíamos hacer resistencia permanente para obligar al GEU a cumplir con 39 resoluciones de la ONU pidiéndole que devuelva inmediatamente la soberanía de Puerto Rico a los puertorriqueño.

¡Tenemos que descolonizarnos dentro de la realidad! www.TodosUnidosDescolonizarPR.blogspot.com

Sovereignty is indeed key to economic development

Why are more Puerto Ricans living away from their national territory, than in? Puerto Rico can’t govern for the Puerto Ricans, because the United States government (USG) has illegally stolen her sovereignty for the past 122 years!

Javier A. Hernandez wrote an article about Puerto Rico’s need to obtain her sovereignty to develop economically. Well, of course that is true. That is exactly why the USG invaded her militarily in 1898! Click here to read his article: https://www.theweeklyjournal.com/opinion/opinion-puerto-rico-sovereignty-is-key-for-economic-development/article_5712233c-0d88-11eb-affc-5be2db1ca4e5.html

Javier states that most Puerto Ricans realize that statehood is not a viable option. Javier, however, never mentioned that the principal reason for that is the USG’s 244 year history of its systemic racism. That is precisely what Trump is saying when he said that he would ignore the results of the November 3^rd, 2020 statehood plebiscite. That, is not news, since the USG has a very long history of ignoring the rule of law.

The USG has never complied with the United Nations’ (UN) Charter that prohibits colonialism since 1945.

The USG has ignored 39 UN resolutions asking it to immediately return Puerto Rico’s sovereignty to the Puerto Ricans. http://webtv.un.org/watch/5th-meeting-committee-of-24-special-committee-on-decolonization/6051725003001/ 

The following is Javier’s solution to Puerto Rico colonialism:

 “Free Association would be “the best of all worlds” since it would secure Puerto Rico’s important ties with the United States, yet allowing Puerto Rico to become a sovereign nation integrated into the world economy, opening up many opportunities for Puerto Rican entrepreneurs, companies, investors and American companies as well.”

Javier is looking for an arrangement that the USG would agree to. Javier, then, can’t believe in a nation’s inalienable right to self-determination and independence under international law.

I believe that we should engage in permanent resistance to force the USG to comply with international law. And once we have achieved our independence, we will do whatever benefits us!

Puerto Ricans will decide what we want.

Questioning paradigms we believe are unquestionable

 

Unless we consciously cleanse ourselves from paradigms that we have been programed to accept as the truth, we will continue to reproduce the same power structures of Western Europe, and thus, will permit the historical 1% to continue to exploit the 99% of the people. Click on the following link to watch Ramon Grosfoguel’s video on this topic: https://youtu.be/o0bcqBdg360

Grosfoguel’s work is significant, because even if a nation is formally decolonized, she will remain colonized in a practical sense until the people’s minds could be also decolonized. Only then can the people govern themselves for their own benefit.

Analyze everything that has gotten us here.

¡Que giro ha dado el Parque Gándara!

 

Un grupo de ciudadanos boricuas ha girado el Parque Gándara 180 grados. Oprima el siguiente enlace para ver cómo luce ese parque hoy, viernes, 18 de diciembre de 2020: https://youtu.be/P-oDvjAqp4U

Los dedos de la paz en el Parque Gándara: https://youtu.be/eDcPfKiWG1k

Visítanos a nuestro lugar cibernético para comunicase con nosotros: www.parquegandara.org.

¡Todo es posible cuando nos unimos para hacer el bien para todos! 

Should a sovereign Puerto Rico be a US ally?

 

The following is a recent article advocating that Puerto Ricans should seek our sovereignty as a United States (US) ally. Click here to read Javier A. Hernandez’s article: https://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/guest-commentary/os-op-puerto-rico-free-association-sovereignty-20200818-3zzun4n4kna6plj5ogmkodbwr4-story.html

Javier is unquestionably making an excellent argument in favor of the US government (USG), but where in his argument is Puerto Rico’s inalienable right to her self-determination and independence? His hypothesis is let us do, the best that we could do, that the USG is willing to allow us to.

I wonder if Javier knows that the US government (USG) militarily invaded Puerto Rico on July 25, 1898 to make her its colony, and that she still remains an occupied nation today.

I wonder if Javier knows that the USG is committing a crime against humanity by never having complied with the United Nations’ (UN) Charter that prohibits colonialism in the past 75 years.

I wonder if Javier knows that the USG has ignored 39 UN resolutions asking it to return immediately Puerto Rico’s sovereignty to the Puerto Ricans. http://webtv.un.org/watch/5th-meeting-committee-of-24-special-committee-on-decolonization/6051725003001/ 

I wonder if Javier knows that the USG is considered by the overwhelming majority of the nations of the world to be the biggest threat to peace.

I think that we should seek our sovereignty by engaging in permanent resistance, and then decide for ourselves with whom to ally. www.TodosUnidosDescolonizarPR.blogspot.com

Puerto Rico should have her sovereignty period!

La gente misma tiene que salvarse

 

El boricua Ramón Grosfoguel explica por qué es fundamental que los mismos pueblos oprimidos se organicen para descolonizarse. Oprima e siguiente enlace para ver ese video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwoeRPm48ZE&ab_channel=TV3

El que no llora no mama. www.TodosUnidosDescolonizarPR.blogspot.com