The US Government is the main responsible for colonial rule for 113 years in Puerto Rico, said head of the Puerto Rican Mission in Cuba, Edwin Gonzalez.

Behind the condition of Free Associated State of Puerto Rico lies a history of oppression against Puerto Rico, Gonzalez informed in the wake of US  President Barack Obama’s current visit to his country.

Anti-Colonial Protests mark Obama’s Puerto Rico Visit

Edwin Gonzalez said that in the salutation words in the air base where the US president was welcomed, “there was more of the same; he was pretty ambiguous. He cannot be judge in a matter when his government is the main problem.”

“Though they try to hide our reality, the president was forced to speak about national symbols because we are a nation and this is an ever growing feeling in Puerto Rico,” he said.

Obama : First US president to visit Puerto Rico in 50 years

Gonzalez also highlighted the protests prior and during Obama´s visit, with several arrests of demonstrators in the last 24 hours. Barack Obama arrived to Muniz air base from Miami at noon today for a five-hour visit, the first by a US president in the last 50 years.

“But Obama is keeping a campaign promise, said Gonzalez, who noted, though, that nearly four million Puerto Ricans fail to vote in US presidential elections.”

Gonzalez stressed that the status of Free Associated State was imposed on Puerto Rico in 1952, but US actually had denied us the possibility of independence since 1898.”

 

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