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IN HONOR OF THE LEGACY OF OSCAR LOPEZ RIVERA AND THE ANTI-COLONIAL STRUGGLE OF THE PUERTO RICAN PEOPLE FOR SELF DETERMINATION, THE BLACK IS BACK COALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE, PEACE AND REPARATIONS SUPPORTS THE NATIONAL PUERTO RICAN DAY PARADE IN NEW YORK CITY, JUNE 11, 2017. We remind people that this tremendous celebration of cultural pride was born in response to the United State’s brutal oppression of the Puerto Rican people who would be murdered in the streets by the FBI for expressing a desire for Puerto Rican independence and who would be given 10 year prison sentences for merely carrying a Puerto Rican flag, as the US declared doing so a felony. Today’s corporate profiteers and puppet politicians seek to…
The United States has been conducting a brutal, 20-year-long campaign of destabilization against Venezuela in an attempt to cause “regime change” in that country. This has taken the form of economic sabotage and financial manipulation as well as support for the mobilization of right-wing forces in increasingly violent demonstrations. This is not a recent policy but one that has also been carried out under the Obama and Bush administrations as well as the present Trump administration. In 2002, right-wing forces inside Venezuela attempted a coup against then-President Hugo Chavez. Many sources have confirmed that the U.S. gave the go-ahead to the opposition to orchestrate the coup and promised support. Soon after the coup, the people of Venezuela turned out in the…