{"id":118294,"date":"2017-05-30T18:21:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T22:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.noticel.com\/ahora\/english\/20170530\/new-advocates-for-independence-and-sovereignty-linked-with-rossello-adminis\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T14:25:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T14:25:31","slug":"new-advocates-for-independence-and-sovereignty-linked-with-rossello-adminis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noticel.com\/en\/ultima-hora\/20170530\/new-advocates-for-independence-and-sovereignty-linked-with-rossello-adminis\/","title":{"rendered":"New Advocates for Independence and Sovereignty Linked with Rossell\u00f3 Adminis"},"content":{"rendered":"

At a time when the Popular Democratic Party (PDP), the Puerto Rican Independence Party (PRIP), the Working People’s Party (PPT, by its Spanish acronym), and other political organizations have decreed a boycott, representatives from the Movimiento Amplio Soberanista (‘Large Sovereignty Movement’, or MAS, by its Spanish acronym) and the MARCHEMOS movement told the governor they would be participating in the plebiscite to represent the alternatives for free association and independence.<\/p>\n

Rossell\u00f3 Nevares met in Fortaleza with MAS representative Iv\u00e1n Rivera and Michael Gonz\u00e1lez of MARCHEMOS, in order to talk about the importance of bringing a decolonizing message to the United States government and representing each one of the alternatives.<\/p>\n

Gonz\u00e1lez has long-time ties with the governor, since both he and Rossell\u00f3 Nevares belonged to a group called ‘Boricua, ahora es!’. Meanwhile, Rivera has long been acquainted with current Secretary of Public Affairs Ram\u00f3n Rosario, since they both participated in the Radio Isla program ‘Hablando claro’.<\/p>\n

‘It’s very important to be clear for the record. \u2018Boricua ahora es’ was a cross-sectional movement that included the participation of people favoring independence and sovereignty. I think there are corporate members of the Popular Party who insist that \u2018Boricua ahora es’ was Dr. Ricardo Rossell\u00f3’s launching pad to obtain the governor’s seat, and that is not true. \u2018Boricua ahora es’ was our project towards decolonization,’ Gonz\u00e1lez asserted.<\/p>\n

In 2012, ‘Boricua, ahora es!’ advocated for a status change in the island through a plebiscite gathering the decolonization ideologies of independence, statehood, and free association, as recognized by international law. This was also Rossell\u00f3’s entryway to his candidacy for governor with the New Progressive Party.<\/p>\n

This group\u2014led by Rossell\u00f3, and constituted by Joel Isaac D\u00edaz (free association), Michael Gonz\u00e1lez Cruz (independence), Carlos R. Ruiz Cort\u00e9s (independence), Edwin Pag\u00e1n (statehood), the late Professor Luis Delgado (sovereignty), and others\u2014sought to ‘inform and insist before the US Congress that 54% of Puerto Rican voters had made their choice against being a United States territory. If they wanted us to speak up, we did,’ explained ALAS chairman, Dr. Gladys Escalona.<\/p>\n

Gonz\u00e1lez explained that MARCHEMOS is a political action committee established to educate, mobilize, and defend independence.<\/p>

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‘The only way we have to effectively fight the Fiscal Control Board is to vote for independence on June 11. It’s true that the mainland’s government in Washington put their foot down by forcing the Puerto Rican government, the governor, and the legislature to include the colonial form of government in this ballot,’ Gonz\u00e1lez commented after the meeting.<\/p>\n

‘However, I, as an independence supporter, couldn’t care less if the plebiscite has the colonial endorsement or not, because both plebiscites are tainted by colonialism, which is a crime against humanity,’ he added, stating that this referendum gives Puerto Ricans the chance to eliminate Puerto Rico’s colonial status.<\/p>\n

For his part, Samuel Qui\u00f1ones Garc\u00eda, president of the MARCHEMOS movement, defended Gonz\u00e1lez and claimed that ‘there’s a smear campaign from people who don’t want us to defend independence, because they believe they have the exclusive right to defend this ideal.’<\/p>\n

‘But I have to mention the fact that he joined partisans for Free Association; It’s libelous and slanderous for anyone to say that, since this man is friends with the governor\u2014his political rival\u2014, we are not defending independence,’ he affirmed.<\/p>\n

For his part, the governor emphasized today that his trip to Washington D.C. with Senate President Thomas Rivera Schatz was meant to inform the US Congress on the works done in the island regarding the plebiscite and the amendments made to it, based on the recommendations issued by the US Justice Department.<\/p>\n

‘We spoke with both Republican and Democrat leaders, and we told them we would be calling them to action in regards to this issue (the plebiscite),’ Rossell\u00f3 concluded.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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