Stolen lands and emptied cities are being turned into resorts and "modern cities" to satisfy the obsession of the billionaires! From Rafa to Capo Rojo to other areas in the world!
Nor the use of Puerto Rico as a training and surveillance site. This much is admitted by the US military with startling regularity, but Caribbean peoples tend to be brainwashed into underestimating our centrality to modern imperialism.
don't let them act brand new. they know this is a generic working class PRican man and that's why they're on his case. had he not been recording they'd have just fabricated some "threatened an agent of the law" charge and taken him in anyway lol
Put short, this is happening because of our status as a "territory," not in spite of. Every time people insist on nonsense about PR being "a part of America," it reaffirms the legitimacy of its occupation and state terrorism against all inhabitants, citizens or otherwise.
Need people to get past the "but Puerto Rico is a US territory!" framing and acting like this is new, an accident or something that can be voted out. Puerto Rico is a US *colony* and Black-majority barrios like Santurce are being dispossessed en masse for luxury developments.
International discussion of the water crisis in Puerto Rico is not going to go anywhere since they won't name the primary culprit as the ecocidal agenda of the PNP, as US corporate media sympathizes with statehooders and the rest of the world just copy pastes their line.