annexation.
The annexation was carried our under the pretext or tho US-Spanish war (in which Puerto sere the set of here government SINCELL The commander of the invadIng are B0cho0 02 0rgg the 'advantages and blessings of colightened spanish language and Puerto suppression an agriculturally diversified economy and its replacement with US big business.
Within two decades the Puerto of landless workers and their country had become dependent upon the United States.
The political responses new imperialism vaned berween tbose who welcomed the and argued SUCCHAS METCHO TWO SCIE COL ernmene and the explicitly nationalist or independence parties. On 25 July 1898, 1,600 US troops landed in Puerto Rico to confe D5 12s percen high seize it, as the New York Times put it, for all time'. PAUL HUNTER looks at US imperialism's colony 79 years after some degree on food stamps and fronted with US companies, has always had a spontaneous tendency to nationalism. But during ship grew close to the AFL union in the IS and Favoured Puerto Rican statehood. And the Com munist Party, formed in 1934, was little better. mic struggles distinct from the "political issue' of colonialism So the workers turned to nationnists to lead the general strike but they had many similar faults. Within two year -ICH enough to move against the ionalists in a reign of brutal rep It was not until after the war when Puerto Rico was turned nto a Us investors flow total from all corporate waK called to this Bootstrap, that the nationalist LOVELIE DEL LO DOODLE US plicitly a socialist The population of Puerto Rico is 3 million, of wbom 40 per cent are unemplayed and 20 per Four Puerto Rican natonalists under ameet after they had burst into the US Congress on 1 March 1954. Second from the right is Lolita Lebron, leader of the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico In the US. 23 years cent lower. 70 percent rely to other state benefits. And 40 pet cent of Puerto Ricans have emi It is no longer even conceivable to separate from the "political issue Or colonialist The final blow came with the discovery of oll aff the northnational, Puerto Rican and US It kept 'econolaw, Puerto Rico has sole juristhe similating Puerto Rico into the It la only 1934 Ls that American imneria ism can avoid the embarrassment of ripping over these legal hurdle BatPresident Ford's call Tast year for Puerto Rico to become the 5ist SHE DECOD But the other side of the coin is the strengthening of the natexemption pendence parties DCIDUCED 'Operation осласпес гатту апо сос текош Tionary Puerto Party — can now easily demonmovement an independent Puerta Rico.
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