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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

April 16, 2020 In an unprecedented show of unity the major independence organizations in Puerto Rico and in the US issued a joint statement. The COVID-19 crisis in Puerto Rico has forced the various groups to come together, putting aside their differences to demand that the government protect and safeguard the health and safety of the Puerto Rican people.  Emerging from these efforts is a historic document which both analyzes and makes demands amidst the current COVID-19 situation both in Puerto Rico and in the diaspora. Among the concerns denounced in the document are ongoing corruption, continued neglect and blatant discrimination. The document also calls for the implementation of specific action items necessary for the well-being of our community during this pandemic. Some of their demands include the passing of laws to help the population cope with the crisis: • A moratorium on utility and debt payments • A moratorium on the mortgage payments with an extension on the term of the mo