Posts Tagged ‘El Grito de Lares’
El Grito (de Lares) En Mi Boca
1:23 pm By Maegan La Mala · Puerto Rico| history · 1 Comment
23 Sep 2008Today marks three years since Rican liberation leader Filiberto Ojeda Rios was murdered by the FBI. It was no coincidence that the FBI chose September 23 as the date of his execution. September 23, 1868 the date that Don Emeterio Betances issued the Grito de Lares, the Independence of Puerto Rico.
Today, activists y amantes de la libertad, call for a day of solidarity with Puerto Rico, a colony hidden behind the name of a commonwealth. A country and a people that are pandered to for votes when needed by presidential wannabes when the island’s very status doesn’t allow for the U.S. citizens by birth to vote for the person under whose laws they must live.
El Grito de Lares is Heard in NYC
12:37 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · New York City| Politics| Puerto Rico · Comments Off
24 Sep 2007
The President of Iran isn’t the only one causing trouble at the UN. Yesterday Ricans and many others marched in solidarity with the Rican community to honor el Grito de Lares, September 23rd 1868, traditionally celebrated and commemorated as the birth of the Puerto Rican nation, when Puerto Ricans rose up against Spanish colonial rule in a revolt. In 2005 the FBI took advantage of that date by killing Filiberto Ojeda Rios. The event was also an opportunity to bring attention to the continued colonial status of the island of Puerto Rico.
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