Decolonize PR via elections

José M. López Sierra, Puerto Rico

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Most Puerto Ricans believe that the way to decolonize Puerto Rico is via elections. The following is an example of that.

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Right now, however, most United States (US) citizens are opposed to our nation’s unconditional support of the artificial colonial settler regime of Israel in its genocide against the indigenous people of Palestine, and yet it continues. Both Republican and Democratic Party candidates running for president are for the continuation of that support. Therefore, the US is an oligarchy, and not a democracy!  

Thus, the US is the only one opposing a free and prosperous Puerto Rico by refusing to comply with 42 United Nations’ resolutions demanding that it immediately return Puerto Rico’s sovereignty to the Puerto Ricans. . https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1w/k1wb1xdn6i https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k15/k154ku9q8x 

The growing support for independence is because two thirds of Puerto Ricans live today away from our national territory, and half of those remaining in Boriken live in poverty. Since this problem is the result to a violation of international law, and is not a political election issue, the 9 million Boricuas worldwide should correct it by permanently engaging in resistance to force the US to comply with international law.

Elections don’t mean anything in an oligarchy.

Vote with your feet!