La UPR se juega la vida. Puerto Rico se juega la vida. El estado colonial siempre le fue fiel a los intereses del capital y del imperio, y te convenció que lo hacía por tu bien. Si no despiertas ahora nunca lo harás. Ya todos somos encapuchados sin saberlo. Todos somos criminales. Maldita sea, isla …
Anexionismo de barra
El movimiento anexionista puertorriqueño es como ese viejito borrachón que lleva frecuentando la misma barra desde hace décadas (sí, ese mismo, que huele a orín) y pasa las horas del día contando historias fantásticas a cambio de que le compren tragos. A este punto nadie le cree lo que balbucea pero le compran una cerveza …
Violencia Contra Violencia.
La junta de control fiscal es violencia. Que de ese hecho no quede duda alguna. Si existe una constante universal actual es que, dentro de la explotación colonial (¿pos/neo?)moderna nuestra querida junta es violencia pura, y a la violencia se le responde efectivamente con violencia, no con platitudes pacifistas. El mero acto de resistencia es …
“Please follow me, sir, for extra security screening.”
"Please follow me, sir, for extra security screening." Una semana de viaje. Cinco aeropuertos en una dirección y cuatro de regreso. Estar días en un lugar donde el idioma me es irritablemente familiar y a la vez desconocido. Transitar entre mundos, aviones, trenes. Toda una aventura a la cual no le temí a nada exceptuando, …
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For Oscar.
This little piece is dedicated to all of my English-speaking friends: I have nothing to thank Obama for. This was Oscar's victory. He survived 36 years of hellish imprisonment.The United States locked him up for far longer than what a sentence for "sedition" warrants. The federal government tried to make Oscar an example, a warning, …
(Re)Learning Democracy
What does democracy look like? We've forgotten what democracy is really like, because we've never truly known it. We have been lulled by complacency and false representation into thinking we know what it is. And there are many ideas about its nature. To some democracy can be attained via online petitions. To others it's conformity …
One Last Hoorah.
I have one last thing to say before this electoral shit show finally and mercifully ends: There can be no denying that white supremacy and racism have been emboldened by Trump's candidacy, but they weren't single-handedly invented by him. This racist reaction has been growing since the last nineties. Lynchings, racism and church burnings are …
Quick thoughts on the fate of a post-Clinton Presidency’s Democratic Party, Donald Trump’s “Great Unraveling”, or whatever the Hell it is we’re calling all of this insanity now.
Come on. We knew it was coming. We knew that it would likely happen. The Donald might have finally (I know, right?!) gone too far for the rest of the Republican Party. The demented clown that has eaten away so many news cycles provided by American corporate media seems to finally, and mercifully, be on …
The Myth of the Liberal Leftist
We're currently living with the idiotic consequences of the theatrics of fear. The nauseating "but do you want Trump to win" non-sequitur has reached strident levels of paranoid manipulation. Those of us that fall squarely on the radical Left have keenly felt the extraordinary pressure that is being exerted by panicked liberals that, maybe deep …
The lightless dawn of a new colonial era
It was announced today that Bill Cooper, the former head of the Center for Liquefied Gas, was named as the head of the nascent fiscal control board for Puerto Rico. This effectively makes Cooper the de facto dictator of Puerto Rico. As the head of PROMESA's economic junta Cooper is chosen by Congressional fiat and, like the rest …
EL REBULERO ILUSTRADO/THE ILLUSTRATED RABBLE-ROUSER 