“Proclaim Liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.” Note that these powerful words, inscribed on the Liberty Bell, don’t say “except Puerto Rico.”
Yet, today, the great Republic that came about from a rebellion of a people who refused to be deprived of its most basic freedoms as citizens, seems intent on holding 4 million of its own citizens in the island of Puerto Rico without their full civil and political rights.
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