Episode 30 - Puerto Rico: Colonial Bondage & Resistance
Puerto Rico’s massive debt has been discussed at …
November 29, 2017
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Episode 30 · November 29, 2017
Episode 30 - Puerto Rico: Colonial Bondage & Resistance
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Summary
Puerto Rico’s massive debt has been discussed at length in Congress and the media, all omitting the most important fact: the history of being a colonial subject for over 500 years, still owned and controlled by the United States.
Abby Martin talks to two professors of Latin American studies, Luis Barrios and Danny Shaw, about the long struggle of Puerto Rico to break the shackles of US and Spanish colonialism—from indigenous resistance to the Young Lords in Harlem. Learn how the US Empire obscures the island’s colonial status today, who really is responsible for the so-called “debt crisis,” and how it can all be solved.
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