strategic-culture | Most
Puerto Ricans are unaware that their neo-colonialist “commonwealth”
status as a US territory was cooked up by the Central Intelligence
Agency to ensure that Puerto Rico remained a US military base for Cold
War operations directed against Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti,
British Guiana/Guyana, Venezuela, Panama, Guatemala, and other countries
in the Western Hemisphere.
For
Washington, Puerto Rico has never been taken seriously. Its days as a
major US military and intelligence “aircraft carrier” in the Caribbean
are long over. Washington, via a long line of pathetic “quislings” who
have served as governors of the territory, would rather Puerto Rico be
seen and not heard, especially when it comes to treating the islanders
as full and equal US citizens. The recent hurricanes that have hit the
Caribbean have taught all the colonial vestiges in the region that they
would be better off as independent states responsible for their own
well-being and recovery than be treated as insignificant colonial pawns.
