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<font face="Times New Roman Baltic, Times" size=4>WE THE PUERTO RICAN
PEOPLE <br>
<br>
San Juan, Puerto Rico<br>
<br>
Mr. Barack H. Obama<br>
President<br>
United States of America<br>
The White House<br>
Washington, D.C.<br>
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Honorable President Obama:<br>
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The act of civil disobedience carried out by a group of Puerto Rican
nationals in the House of Representatives on May 6, 2009 responds to our
people's deep dissatisfaction with the political relationship between our
two nations.<br>
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Puerto Rico has been a colony for 111 years: a humiliating colonial
condition in the 21st Century. It is high time that this crime against
our people is resolved, resolved and resolved. Political-economic
promises that govern us reside at the hands of foreign nation, the
U.S. You have declared that it is time to leave the past behind,
that your administration will unite the Latin American people and the
people of the U.S. It is time to act now. It is not up to the will of the
colonized people of Puerto Rico to decide; it is up to your
administration to stand up for the Rights and moral values your
administration advocates. Every country has the right to attain its
independence and be a free country.<br>
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Puerto Rico is a Latin American and a Caribbean nation. The Signers below
have taken your Word very seriously. If this is so, begin to decolonize
Puerto Rico now-without the subterfuges and tricky language that have
been reiterated for the past 111 years.<br>
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Begin by breaking the chains of bondage to initiate a new era and a new
treaty for the pursuit of happiness of our respective nations. Consider
as well that colonization has caused over half of our people to emigrate
out of Puerto Rico into the U.S.<br>
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Let's establish a powerful friendship link; thus, removing the
humiliating marks that undermine our human dignity. Let's deal as equal
Partners. Stop subordinating our leaders and people.<br>
A warm Puerto Rican embrace.<br>
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Cordially,<br>
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1. Maria L (Chabela) Rodriguez<br>
2. Eugenia V. Perez-Montijo<br>
3. Luis Enrique Romero<br>
4. Jose (Tony Mapeye) Rivera<br>
5. Carlos Esteban Fonseca<br>
6. Ramon Diaz<br>
7. Luis Suarez<br>
8. Manuel Rivera, Esq. Advising Attorney<br>
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