She claimed that in the 1960s “President Kennedy wanted to remove every person in the island, including their dead, emptying even the cemetery so there would be no reason for families to visit their deceased loved ones.” She disclosed that a former colonial Governor, Edwin Miranda, recently wrote, in a Telegram chat, that: “I saw the future, it was marvelous; there are no Puerto Ricans”.
For Riveria and Cortés, US has enforced severe austerity measures in PR which have led to drastic cuts in social services; reduction in pension; closure of 150 public schools; massive cuts in university budget; privatisation of public health; prolonged electricity outages; and the sale of national assets. Their conclusion is that: “the current U.S. agenda seems to envision a Puerto Rico without Puerto Ricans.”
They submitted that colonialism in PR has stifled economic development; undermined its social and human fabric; gentrified and damaged the environment; and led to migration wave to the extent that Puerto Ricans in US are: “nearly twice the size of that in Puerto Rico.”
Capote pointed out that US has on some occasions succeeded in removing PR from the list of colonies recognized by the UN but that the PR always succeeds to get back on the list due to the support of several countries. She added that PR has been utilizing the UN Decolonization Committee, Special Political Anti-Colonialism Committee, Geneva Human Rights Commission, and the Economic and Social Development of the countries to advance the cause of PR independence.
Caelos Alicea Negrón submitted that UN particularly: “provides a legal-ethical-moral framework” for the colonised peoples to wage their struggle for independence. He however maintained that: “proposals that validate or legitimize annexation or conceptual-legal sovereignties that that exclude independence” are unacceptable to Puerto Ricans. Negrón maintained that US colonialism violates international law, offends humanity, and is a crime against humanity.
Jihad introduced a different dimension. He asserted that the US government continues a 400-year internal colonialism and genocide against the indigenous, Black, Brown and other minority peoples. He said the mechanisms for committing these include: killing minority peoples; causing serious bodily or mental harm to them; deliberately inflicting them with conditions of life calculated to physically and, or, partially destroy them – in whole or part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; and forcibly transferring children of the minority to the other group.
Toure linked alleged internal colonialism and genocide in US to: “capitalism, imperialism, sexism, xenophobia and very other kind of ism, that is bent on control, and exploitation of people of colour.”
Parker posited that whether the US President is a Black like Obama, or a woman like Kamala Harris, the US anti-minority policies will continue, because its imperialism is a: “self-perpetuating money machine for the ruling class, a huge buffet for the military industrial complex and the politicians and corporations who directly and indirectly benefit from it.”
Vascassenno paid glowing tributes to the: “heroic Palestinian resistance and the international movement of mainly students and youths, numbering millions in every continent, north to south and east to west, has shown, no matter the depths of depravity of Israeli Occupation Forces against women, children and prisoners, that the Palestinian people will win. Free Palestine!”
The conditions of the colonised countries are not fundamentally different from those in neocolonial countries. Many avenues exist for intensifying the struggles against colonialism and neocolonialism. Gambari, Bachir, Falana, and Magbadelo extensively addressed these issues.
To me, what is clear is that oppressed peoples, in the centre and periphery of capitalism, must unite, empathize, solidarise, and support one another to end colonialism, neo-colonialism, occupation and imperialist oppression globally.
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