PUERTO RICO NEVER STOPPED BEING A COLONY

NiLP Guest Commentary Remembering March 1, 1954: The Day Puerto Rican Nationalists Attacked the United Sstates Congress by Olga Jiménez de Wagenheim The NiLP Report Sixty-four years ago Lolita Lebrón and three male companions traveled from New York City to Washington, D.C., where they planned to attack the United States Congress in order to let the world know that Puerto Rico was still a colony. Two years earlier, the Popular Democratic Party administration in Puerto Rico had reached an understanding with the United States government to grant the island autonomy. Between 1950 and 1952 several steps were taken to make the petition a reality: a referendum was held, a constitution was drafted, and the people voted in favor of remaining tied to the United States by virtue of a "compact," that could not be amended unilaterally. The U.S. Congress enacted a law, which the president signed, and then sent to the United Nations for…

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