Puerto Rican independence movement dominated by Communists

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Time for a New Puerto Rican Independence Movement

Frank Worley-Lopez | March 5, 2014 at 6:00 am

This week my disdain for the current Puerto Rico independence movement received yet another boost when semi-retired PIP President Rubén Berríos Martínez ... publicly supported the Venezuelan government in their fight against the evil fascist students who are demanding such horrid things as honest elections and freedom (perish the thought!).

I once interviewed Ruben in his then-Senate office, where he proudly talked of visiting Cuba and hugging Fidel Castro. While they swear they are not communists, but social democrats, the PIP has steadfastly supported the Cuban communist regime and the transition to communism by former Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez.

That really is not surprising when anecdotal (and historical) evidence suggests that the Puerto Rico nationalist movement and independence movement were actually organized with the help of the Cuban equivalent of the CIA. Nationalist leader Filiberto Ojeda Rios, who led the Macheteros (machete wielders) terrorist group was recruited by the Cuban Intelligence Service in 1961 ... I hosted a radio program on San Juan radio station WOSO, and during one of the programs I called Nationalist Party hero Lolita Lebron a terrorist for her part in an armed attack on Congress during the 1950s. I was hammered by even supposed moderates for the statement. I stand by it, even to this day. Lebron and her crowd of nationalists were attacking the wrong people. Shooting unarmed elected officials in the United States was fundamentally wrong.

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It was the people of Puerto Rico who did not want independence in the 1950s, and it is the people of Puerto Rico that have voted against it today.

Why would they vote for independence? At this juncture, those who represent independence provide a vision that is a mirror image of what most Puerto Ricans do not want: Caribbean communist regimes.

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It is clear, however, that there are those who believe in sovereignty and independence who are not communists. It is incumbent on those people, libertarians, conservatives, and market-friendly independence supporters to organize a new independence movement that is based on individual liberty, private property rights, capitalism, and freedom. If people of Puerto Rico are to ever become a sovereign republic, it must be a republic that reflects the aspirations of the people and not the repressions of communism.

http://blog.panampost.com/frank-worley-lopez/2014/03/05/time-for-a-new-puerto-rican-independence-movement/

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