Manifesto of the Partido Nacionalista de Puerto Rico, Movimiento Libertador, regarding the coronavirus pandemic in Puerto Rico
Puerto Ricans cannot go to foreigners to ask for anything, nor can they expect anything from their executioner, nor from the denatured of Puerto Rico. We must rise up as a single soul and a single body, and move like human beings, as a civilized nation of honor, valor and sacrifice. Pedro Albizu Campos, 1949 The crisis that Puerto Rico is living as a result of the pandemic caused by the SARS-COV-2 virus moves the Partido Nacionalista de Puerto Rico, Movimiento Libertador to issue this manifesto. Our organization has maintained, and maintains, that only with independence and sovereignty organized in a state whose Constitution guarantees the development of a society based upon full justice and dignity for its citizens, only then, will we, as Puerto Ricans, have the ability to govern the destiny of our Homeland. This pandemic once again illustrates the total collapse of values we experience today in Puerto Rico, the total disdain of Washington towards its colony and the powerless...