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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><span
style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(20,24,35)"><b>War
Against All Puerto Ricans</b></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(20,24,35)">by
Nelson A. Denis (April 21, 2015)<br>
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<div><span style="font-size:12pt">Within thirty years of occupying
Puerto Rico</span> in 1898, the US had devalued the Puerto Rican
currency by 40% and owned 80% of all the island's farms . . . as
well as the insular postal system, the entire coastal railroad,
and the San Juan International Airport.</div>
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align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(20,24,35)"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(20,24,35)">The
US military controlled another 13% of the island. </span></p>
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align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(20,24,35)"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(20,24,35)">In
addition, U.S. federal agencies controlled Puerto Rico's foreign
relations, banking system, currency, customs, tariffs,
import/export quotas, radio waves, commerce, transportation,
military service, maritime laws, and cabotage rights.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(20,24,35)"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(20,24,35)">Although
Puerto Ricans were declared US citizens in 1917, just in time
for World War I, these same "citizens" were found ineligible for
minimum wage legislation in 1922, when the US Supreme Court
ruled that the US constitution did not apply to Puerto Rico.
This did not sit well with the <i>macheteros </i>- the
sugarcane workers - who worked 50 and 60 hours a week for
starvation wages. </span></p>
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align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(20,24,35)"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(20,24,35)">In
1934, the <i>macheteros </i></span><span
style="color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:Cambria,serif;font-size:10pt">went
on strike, and asked Pedro Albizu Campos to lead them.</span></p>
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align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">
</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">The "war
against all Puerto Ricans" was declared by the Puerto Rico
Police Chief in 1935. After murdering four Puerto Ricans in the
Rio Piedras Massacre, Police Chief E. Francis Riggs announced
that, if Albizu Campos continued to "agitate" the <i>macheteros</i>,
there would be "war to the death against all Puerto Ricans."</span></p>
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align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Eighty years
later, just three weeks ago, Nation Books published my book. <i><a
shape="rect"
href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001TXj6tVGv6gDtZvvpXfyNYPUxTKCQmEc8npSaq8rpFlLu_uTpjLUJr74RTnu0TrIm26-T1o5phvhdsUAkJ8Jv2X02RW4g6w9flMBsvMdZAfu1ouNKZU7PCOK0rC2hwCR3ZSljY7hD7C4Zhhzp39H5fuN2r9ZBzdZm3Nu-9jQ_XXTX7GgOmuseP4m-77uXQowBamLVlVUVOK9EZP9XIiTdwuqrZB1Xz0QhaRgseSkABKXcvVtINZNvOUoQWixm3GDNICH2JNdDgsa_9GxP5yQNQw==&c=V6_u1n3fjLxwbMJIUwOQS7iQ1uW_Fu4frnvoYrvRzMTncHFxVtH-2Q==&ch=sTVcuNOb1KgSri43Fo18Jgr-IMFLqVt-yHyQPcZftdYrw2KKbHFs7w=="
target="_blank">War Against All Puerto Ricans</a></i>. It
documents how and why this war was waged. I knew this history
had to be told. What I didn't know, was the response it would
receive.</span></p>
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align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> </span></p>
<p
style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:12pt"
align="left"><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif"><b>An Instant
Audience</b></span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><b> </b></span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Two weeks <i>before</i>
it was published, the book was a #1 Amazon Best Seller. By the
date of release, excerpts from the book received nearly 500,000
views on the <i>Latino Rebels</i> website. Two days after the
book's release, the Independence Party of Puerto Rico called me
to ask how they could promote it on the island. Within one week,
I made nine TV and radio appearances, with further bookings
scheduled for C-SPAN, New York 1, and <i>Democracy Now</i>.</span><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> </span><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">
</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Print
journalists found the book quickly. Robert Dominguez of the <i>New
York Daily News</i> wrote "Prepare to be outraged . . .
meticulously researched . . . a timely, eye-ope</span><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">ning must-read<span
style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">." In <i>Latino Rebels</i>,
Julio Varela wrote that "<i>War Against All Puerto Ricans </i>earns
'instant classic' status . . . </span><span
style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">anyone who wants to understand
U.S. imperial history from the time of Manifest Destiny needs
to read this book." In <i>Respuesta</i>, Andre Lee Muñiz
praised </span>"the book's historical value . . . a must-read
for anyone interested in learning more about Puerto Rico." In <i>Gozamos</i>,
Hector Luis Alamo wrote, "<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Nelson
Denis doesn't just give us history. He gives us history on
fire . . . a thoroughly researched indictment of over a
century of U.S. policy toward one small island .a
full-throated eulogy of brave heroes, men and women of
conviction, who devoted every drop of their blood to a people
and a principle."</span></span></p>
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align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">
</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">From
Washington, D.C., Congressman José Serrano wrote that "</span><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">It
is a book that every student of the US-Puerto Rico relationship
should read." </span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">In
Chicago, José López Rivera - the brother of Oscar López Rivera -
invited me to Division Street for a four-day book tour. </span><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Down on the
island, Mr. Luis Gonzalez-Argueso, owner of the Arguezo &
Garzon Editores publishing company, offered to write a Spanish
translation for<i> free</i>. Don Luis is now writing it.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">
</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">This
overwhelming response, within a week of the book's publication,
made me stop and think.I am not a celebrity.I am not a famous
writer. There was something going on, that had nothing to do
with me. </span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">It was the
subject matter.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> </span></p>
<p
style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:12pt"
align="left"><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif"><b>A Hidden
History</b></span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><b> </b></span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">The story of
Puerto Rico, under the tutelage of the United States, had not
been fully told. No one knew that Charles Herbert Allen, the
first civilian governor from the US, stuffed the Puerto Rican
economy into his pocket by stealing thousands of farms, running
up to Wall Street, and making himself the president of Domino
Sugar.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">No one knew
that Gov. Luis Muñoz Marín was an opium addict, and that J.
Edgar Hoover used this information to control the island's
politics.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">No one knew
that Police Chief Riggs, who declared "war to the death against
all Puerto Ricans," was the heir to the Riggs National Bank,
which had colonial investments all over South and Central
America.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">No one knew
that, right after the Ponce Massacre, the Police Chief
re-arranged the corpses in the street, and then took photos of
them, to make it look like the murdering policemen had acted in
"self-defense."</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">No one knew
that an OSS/CIA operative named Waller Booth opened a nightclub
near Camp Las Casas in Santurce, where he spied on nearly every
Nationalist on the island. </span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">No one knew
that Albizu Campos was being subjected to TBI (Total Body
Irradiation) while in <i>La Princesa</i> prison and everyone -
from the FBI to Luis Muñoz Marín to the prison guards themselves
- knew all about it.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">No one knew
that the US kept a torture facility in Aguadilla, near the Ramey
Air Force Base - where hundreds of Puerto Rican prisoners were
interrogated, tortured, and killed.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">The reason that
no one knew, is because all the information was buried in police
files, hospital records, newspaper archives, US congressional
transcripts, and 1.8 million pages of secret FBI files, known
today as <i>carpetas</i>.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> </span></p>
<p
style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:12pt"
align="left"><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif"><b>The Heroes
of this History</b></span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><b> </b></span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">The final
confirmation of all this history came from the people who lived
it: the Nationalists themselves. I interviewed dozens of them
over a period of forty years, starting from 1974. </span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">They had lived
in a world where selfishness was a great asset, a world owned by
strangers and governed by corruption, a world so threatening and
capricious that to tell the truth was to risk one's livelihood,
one's freedom, and sometimes one's life. It took a long time (in
some cases years) to earn their trust, but it was worth every
moment. Their personal recollections - with respect to the Ponce
Massacre, the Rio Piedras Massacre, the trial of Albizu Campos,
the Gag Law arrests, the 1934 sugarcane strike, the police
terror of Governor Blanton Winship, the haplessness of Moncho
Reyes, the bombing of Jayuya and Utuado, the conditions at <i>La
Princesa</i> and <i>El Oso Blanco </i>prisons - all closely
parallel the newspaper accounts, congressional testimony, and
FBI files from 1930 to 1965.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">The
Nationalists fought a brave battle against the most powerful
empire in history. As the years progressed, and I earned their
trust, these brave men and women opened up to me. They told me
things I'd never seen in any history book, or heard in any
lecture hall: not at Harvard, not at Yale, or anywhere. In
exchange for sharing this information, all they asked was that I
tell the story straight: with no embellishment or undue drama.
It wasn't much to ask...but no one had ever done this for them.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> </span></p>
<p
style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:12pt"
align="left"><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif"><b>The Facts</b></span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><b> </b></span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">On October 30,
1950, a violent revolution swept through Puerto Rico:
Nationalists tried to kill President Harry S. Truman; gunfights
roared in eight towns; revolutionaries burned police stations,
post offices, and selective service centers.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">
</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">To suppress
this revolution, the US Army deployed 5,000 troops and bombarded
the towns of Jayuya and Utuado - the only time in history that
the United States government has bombed its own citizens. They
also arrested 3,000 Puerto Ricans and imprisoned Pedro Albizu
Campos. While Albizu was in prison, evidence strongly indicates,
the US subjected Albizu to TBI (Total Body Irradiation) until it
killed him.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> </span></p>
<p
style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:12pt"
align="left"><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif"><b>The
Outlook</b></span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><b> </b></span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><i>War Against
All Puerto Ricans</i></span><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> tells the
story of this revolution. The book occupies the same cultural
space as <i>Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee</i>, in 1971. It
challenges us to re-set our moral compass. It awakens the public
conscience to America's plundering of an entire island, whose
residents have been US citizens for nearly a century.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">It also arrives
at a critical time. </span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">April 21, 2015
marks the 50<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the death of Albizu
Campos.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">The island is
in economic malaise with a $73 billion debt, two gasoline tax
hikes in the past year, soaring electrical and water costs,
government pension rollbacks, layoffs, a proposed 16% VAT
(value-added tax), and even a proposed "obesity" tax.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">At the same
time that working class and middle-income Puerto Ricans are
being squeezed off the island, the government extends a 20-year
tax exemption on interest, dividends, and capital gains, for
foreign (i.e., US) investors in the same island. This latest
corporate welfare, called Act 22, was passed in 2012 and
applauded by the <i>New York Times </i>and the US business
press.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">The moment that
its debt was downgraded to "Junk Bond" status, Puerto Rico
became a target for corporate raiders and hedge fund managers,
who are now using Act 22 to buy "distressed properties" in every
corner of the island. The latest raider is John Paulson, whose
hedge fund made $15 billion by betting <span
style="text-decoration:underline">against</span>the US economy
in 2007, during its national mortgage crisis.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Paulson is
using Act 22 to buy and build two $500 million beachfront hotels
in San Juan. A herd of hedge funders is following right behind
him. The entire stampede is being trumpeted by the New York
Times("Puerto Rico Luring Buyers with Tax Breaks," Sept. 5,
2014), Bloomberg Business ("Puerto Rico: Tax Haven for America's
Super-Rich," June 6, 2014), and New Yorker Magazine ("The Puerto
Rico Problem," April 6, 2015).</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">What does this
have to do with <i>War Against All Puerto Ricans</i>? </span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Everything. </span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Albizu Campos
was correct, when he observed that "owning a person makes you a
scoundrel, but owning a nation makes you a colonial benefactor."
The conditions are now mounting, for the gentrification of
Puerto Rico. Within one more generation, the entire island will
become a playground for America's super rich.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Unless we
recognize this, and confront it together, the war against all
Puerto Ricans will soon be over. Our island will be gone. Our
people will have been evicted. It all reminds me of something my
grandmother once told me: "Puerto Rican eyes are all dark, with
lots of yesterdays in them."</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><strong>________________________________________________________________________________________________________ </strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
align="left"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><strong><i>Nelson
A. Denis </i></strong></span><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;font-weight:normal"><i>served
in 1997-2001 as a New York State Assemblyman representing East
Harlem in Manhatttan. A graduate of Harvard University and
Yale Law School, he wrote over 300 editorials for </i></span><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;font-style:normal"><em>El
Diario/La Prensa</em></span><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;font-weight:normal"><i>, and
received the Best Editorial Writing award from the National
Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ). For more
information on Denis, <a shape="rect"
href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001TXj6tVGv6gDtZvvpXfyNYPUxTKCQmEc8npSaq8rpFlLu_uTpjLUJr74RTnu0TrImgyxtADuT7_9RE9W4Li4D5vPFJkNJPFfG9VM3-l2xciZev_YgbMv94vWDBYT7NaSfguKrlajmoW8idtozUf6E7m3YIUsaPIl5hWvMzL6iozpQ1dMlsZ9DQQJ1sebpRgm4&c=V6_u1n3fjLxwbMJIUwOQS7iQ1uW_Fu4frnvoYrvRzMTncHFxVtH-2Q==&ch=sTVcuNOb1KgSri43Fo18Jgr-IMFLqVt-yHyQPcZftdYrw2KKbHFs7w=="
target="_blank">visit his blog</a>. He can be reached at <a
style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" shape="rect"
href="mailto:nelsondenis248@aol.com" target="_blank">nelsondenis248@aol.com</a>.</i></span></p>
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