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Elections of hope in Puerto Rico

By Berta Joubert-Ceci

The establishment parties find themselves under pressure from the emergence of Alianza de País, a progressive coalition formed by the Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP) and Movimiento Victoria Ciudadana (MVC). This coalition is gaining support among disaffected members of both the PPD and the PNP, who are disillusioned by the actions of their parties. The figure of Juan Dalmau, representing the PIP for governor, is perceived as a trustworthy leader capable of addressing the failures of previous administrations.

Regardless of the outcome in the governor’s race, the people have unequivocally expressed their rejection of corruption, and this time they will not stop after November 5th.

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Nov 05, 2024
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Promise of change in Puerto Rico

By Berta Joubert-Ceci

With each passing day, Puerto Rico sinks deeper into a neoliberal process that threatens its very existence. From the purely geological issue, with supposed legal approvals for construction in coastal locations that involve the removal of mangroves and corals that are the natural barriers against coastal erosion, to the displacement of communities that give way to luxury housing for millionaire foreigners. There is a replacement of our population.

Urgent measures are needed such as the removal of the corrupt, neoliberal and right-wing administration in the government represented by the New Progressive Party (PNP) that aspires to make PUR a U.S. state. However, it also has its collaborators in the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), who favor the colonial situation.

To remove them, there is a chance in the upcoming November 5 elections. Despite the prohibitions of the right wing, an electoral alliance has been formed between two progressive forces, the Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP) and the Movimiento Victoria Ciudadana.

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Oct 19, 2024
Nuevo junte electoral da esperanzas en Puerto Rico

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Nuevo junte electoral da esperanzas en Puerto Rico

Mientras el gobierno de Puerto Rico y sus secuaces hacen todo por vender nuestro patrimonio por medio de privatizaciones a entes extranjeros, hay sin embargo una noticia muy esperanzadora.

Por Berta Joubert-Ceci

Pero en Puerto Rico está prohibido un frente electoral. Los partidos PNP y PPD que se han alternado en el gobierno para destruir el país, han implantado leyes en contra de la formación de cualquier unión de partidos que amenace su supremacía en el gobierno.

Así que este nuevo junte tiene como estrategia varias vías: La Judicial, para desafiar esta ley retrógrada; la Legislativa para enmendar la ley; y la de un entendido político que exhorta a sus seguidores a votar por candidatos fuera de líneas partidistas.

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Jan 31, 2023

La lucha del pueblo vs. gobierno en Puerto Rico

Por Berta Joubert-Ceci

La crisis causada por la privatización de la energía en Puerto Rico, expone cuáles son los alineamientos en la lucha de clases aquí.

Por un lado está el pueblo y sus organizaciones de base, incluyendo a importantes profesionales e intelectuales, además de los medios alternativos que responden a los intereses del pueblo, y por el otro lado el poderoso bloque compuesto por la administración del gobierno insular, incluyendo a la legislatura liderada por los partidos colonialistas PNP y PPD; el gobierno estadounidense y su Congreso que representan, no a la susodicha democracia y justicia, sino a los intereses corporativos energéticos yanquis, principalmente del gas.

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Nov 25, 2022
Homenaje a Don Heriberto Marín, insurgente de Jayuya

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Homenaje a Don Heriberto Marín, insurgente de Jayuya

Por Berta Joubert-Ceci 

Muchas veces celebramos la vida y las contribuciones de personas importantes en la lucha de nuestros pueblos cuando ya han fallecido. Pero hoy quisiera homenajear a un héroe viviente de nuestra lucha independentista en Puerto Rico, del Partido Nacionalista, Don Heriberto Marín quien esta semana cumplió 93 años.

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Nov 27, 2021
Rafael Cancel Miranda, ¡PRESENTE!

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Rafael Cancel Miranda, ¡PRESENTE!

By Berta Joubert-Ceci

On the night of Monday, March 2, Rafael Cancel Miranda, the undisputed leader of Puerto Rican nationalism, passed into immortality. And it could be said that with his head held high, just as he lived, offering a last blow to Yankee colonialism. In spite of the illness that threatened his body, his strong willpower allowed him to fulfill his wishes: to die after March 1, the anniversary of that day when in 1954, along with Lolita Lebrón, Irvin Flores and Andrés Figueroa Cordero, he climbed the steps of the United States Congress to shoot out the farce of the recently imposed Commonwealth status in Puerto Rico.

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Mar 16, 2020
Rafael Cancel Miranda dies, former political prisoner and the last survivor of the attack on Congress in 1954

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Rafael Cancel Miranda dies, former political prisoner and the last survivor of the attack on Congress in 1954

Rafael Cancel Miranda, the last survivor of the four nationalist militants who on 1 March 1954 shot at members of the United States House of Representatives in the middle of a session, to protest against the colonial dominance of that country over Puerto Rico, and earned him a quarter of a century in jail and the unlimited veneration of the independence movement, died at 9:10 p.m. today, Monday, at age 89, at his residence in Río Piedras, reported his widow, María de los Ángeles, and his youngest son, Rafael Cancel Vázquez , through official communication.

His relatives indicated that at the time of his departure, Cancel Miranda was alert and aware, and died in peace surrounded by his loved ones.

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Mar 03, 2020

San Juan, Puerto Rico: Emergency protest against the coup in Bolivia, November 11, 2019.

Former political prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera and members of the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico-Liberating Movement demonstrated in front of the U.S. Courthouse in San Juan in support of Bolivian President Evo Morales and against the coup.

#ElMundoConEvo #BoliviaCoup #PuertoRicoLibre

Photos: Victor R. Birriel | MINH 

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Nov 12, 2019
Philippines: Obama, Aquino equally drenched with blood of victims of rights abuses

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Philippines: Obama, Aquino equally drenched with blood of victims of rights abuses

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) charged that the US government is just as responsible as the Aquino regime for the grave violations of human rights perpetrated by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), the Philippine National Police (PNP), and various state paramilitaries under the regime’s Oplan Bayanihan.

The CPP statement was issued in reaction to the published contents of the US State Department’s 2013 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices which cited continuing extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances undertaken by security forces in the Philippines.

“The US government cannot feign innocence because it has been providing the AFP and its agencies with military advice, training and aid. In fact, the AFP’s current campaign of suppression deceitfully named Oplan Bayanihan was drafted under the close supervision of US military advisers and patterned after the US government’s Counter-Insurgency Guide of 2009,” said the CPP.

“Under Oplan Bayanihan, entire communities are being militarized, with the people’s human rights abused by the operating units of the AFP in the name of so-called peace and development,” said the CPP. “US military advisers have taught the AFP to describe every campaign of suppression as ‘peace and development’ in hopes of concealing the brutalities and abuses daily being committed by the fascist troops against the people.”

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Mar 03, 2014

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