endorsement of its views on our part.
A Declaration of Independence for Puerto Rico
The Panam Post
by Frank Worley-Lopez
Spain and declared Puerto Rico’s independence from the colonial power.
Their rebellion, known as El Grito de Lares and led by men such as
Ramón Emeterio Betances (author of the Ten Commandments of Free
Men), was crushed by the Spaniards, but in many ways, it was the birth
of the Puerto Rican independence movement.
While a complete history lesson is not in order today, Betances was
clearly an individualist and believer in liberty. Since then, mostly
since the 1950s, the independence movement has been dominated
by Marxist leftists and socialism. In the subsequent years, the people
of Puerto Rico have rejected communism and the Puerto Rico Inde-
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