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On three occasions, the U.S. Congress offered to give Puerto Rico its independence. In 1934, Senator Millard Tydings (D-MD), chairman of the Senate Committee on Territories and Insular Affairs, filed a bill in U.S. Congress that would… Read More
“Justice is incidental to law and order. ” – FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover Luís Muñoz Marín had a carefully crafted persona. Gov. Muñoz Marín, his PPD political party, and the U.S. government all had a great… Read More
On November 3, 1961, Pablo Casals performed a cello recital after a White House Dinner. Pres. John F. Kennedy, Gov. Luis Muñoz Marín, and their wives listened and applauded.
In 1944, Luis Muñoz Marín mounted a furious campaign through the Puerto Rican countryside. He distributed hundreds of thousands of copies of El Batey, the PPD newsletter. He toured the Cordillera Mountain range in a jeep, with… Read More
The author of Campus In Bondage, Ruth M. Reynolds, was a life-long advocate for the independence of Puerto Rico. She was arrested on October 31, 1950 for “conspiracy to overthrow the government of the US” and imprisoned… Read More
WAR AGAINST ALL PUERTO RICANS 