It’s hard to read this any other way than as an implicit call for independence. But, as I’ve (hopefully friendlily) argued with the author before, the fact that it remains implicit does not help advance a solution to the problems she so ably describes.
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Advocate for Puerto Rican independence. President of Boricuas Unidos en la Diáspora (BUDPR), a national nonprofit organization fighting for decolonization.
