The Young Lords by Enck-Wanzer Darrel; Morales Iris; Oliver-Velez Denise & Iris Morales & Denise Oliver-Velez

Author:Enck-Wanzer, Darrel; Morales, Iris; Oliver-Velez, Denise & Iris Morales & Denise Oliver-Velez
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2010-11-09T05:00:00+00:00

History of Boriken 13

(From the newspaper Palante, 11-23 September 1971, volume 3, number 15)

After marín became governor in 1948, the next step was to eliminate those forces which would oppose his scheme. Notice how amerikkkan “democracy” works. In 1947, 1300 Nationalists and independentistas were in jail; in 1950, the government—in San Juan and Washington—decided to wipe them out altogether. Early that year, u.s. secretary of war Jordan met in La Fortaleza with marín and other “officials.” A plan for the total destruction of the Nationalist Party and the liberation movement in general was created, called the “Jordan Plan.” The Nationalist Party had an intelligence system that penetrated even into La Fortaleza, and soon news of the “Jordan Plan” was brought out to our people in August of 1950. This delayed the execution of the plan to October 26. That day, a car containing 4 Nationalists was stopped and they were arrested. The Party knew this was the beginning of the plan.

Don Pedro decided to fight rather than go to jail peacefully so that an example would be set for us all. On October 30, 1950 Nationalists led by Blances Canales captured the town of Jayuya. A Nationalist group attacked La Fortaleza, while uprisings occurred in Arecibo, Utuado, Naranjito and Mayaguez. The 30th and 31st of October, troops laid siege to Don Pedro’s home. He was finally arrested November 2nd, when the beginnings of “order” was restored throughout the island.

All communications and travel between the states and Puerto Rico were cut off. At the Nationalist Mission in New York, the unreliable radio broadcasts said Don Pedro had been killed. To avenge the murder, two patriots, Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola, set out for Washington D.C. On November 1, they attacked the home of the u.s. president truman. Torresola was killed, and Collazo is still in jail.

The October 30 uprising gave the u.s. and its regime in San Juan an excuse to break the back of the liberation movement. Although 300 Nationalists participated in the uprisings, 2000 Puerto Ricans, ranging from liberals to moderates to those formerly unconcerned about politics, were arrested.

fomento, Puerto Rico’s Ministry of Economic Development, was the vehicle used to carry out the final step at securing u.s. hold of the economic base, and so in turn of the political machinery. Under the over all name operation bootstrap, formento representatives went to the u.s. to encourage industry to begin in Puerto Rico while employing Puerto Ricans in the u.s. This cheap labor force would serve amerikkkan business needs, since unskilled laborers were fighting in the Korean War, and the thousands of Puerto Rican poor could be shipped off the island to the u.s. The marín government propagandized all over the island about the jobs and riches awaiting in amerikkka. Between 1950 and 1954, 100,000 Puerto Ricans went to the u.s. By 1955, manufacturing passed agriculture as the major form of production on the island. So it was that in 55 years, a process that took at least 110 years in the u.

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