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    "ocrText": "DECLASSIFIED\nE. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E)\nOSD letter, April 12, 1974\nBy NLT-\nNARS Date 7-16-75\nMemorandum\n4/20/48\n\"The solidarity of all humanity would be of no value to us if\nwe here on this platform, in this barrio, in the capital of Puerto Rico,\nand on each grain of sand of Puerto Rico, on the sea and in the heavens\nover Puerto Rico, do not exercise the right of the independence of Puerto\nRico. It is well that the United States should know that we Puerto Ricans\nare in possession of our rights and that they, the Yankees, have no right,\nnot even to be present with us. Every attempt to exercise power in Puerto\nRico under the Flag of the United States is a crime against human liberty\nand an assault against the liberty of Puerto Rico. Every Puerto\nRican\nwho\nserves as an instrument of that despotism of the United States is an accom-\nplice in the crime of that country. Here nobody has the right to exercise\nany power in the name of the United States, neither the governor, nor the\ncolonial legislature, nor the colonial courts, nor the colonial police, nor\nany foreign army, navy, or air force.\n\"Those who live on exploitation and slavery of the people of\nPuerto Rico talk of democracy; that there is democracy here. The word\ndemocracy means many things (among them) rights of the people. What rights\nhave these people under the Flag of the United States? Democracy means\nequality. Here, my friends, there is equality, and you know what equality.\nIt is the equality that exists between slaves\nThe equality that in-\nterests us is the equality in the liberty, in the indep endence, of Puerto\nRico (sic).\n\"Those gentlemen who are the delicate instruments - who are local\napologists for the despotism over your fatherland - are inviting nothing\nmore than justice. They are inviting the justice of the fatherland, and\nthey will not escape the justice of the fatherland.\"\n(After stating that the press of Puerto Rico invariably takes a\nstand against the Puerto Rican nationality, he said:\n\"Thus we see our press condemning the youth of Puerto Rico in the\nUniversity because the youth of Puerto Rico, as reflected by the University\nstudents, acting as responsible men and women of dignity, have defied a\nridiculous academic despotism.\n\"It would occur to no one in the world to think that a university\nhas to have a professorship of the machine gun, police club, the .45 calibre\nrevolver, and gas guns to use against the girls of Puerto Rico.\n\"The despot called the governor of Puerto Rico should die of shame.\nColonel Roig of the Insular Police should die of shame. All the police\nwho are there at the University should die of shame.\nCONFIDENTIAL\n- 4 -"
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