Pedro Albizu Campos

Después de observar los malos ejemplos de las repúblicas hispanoamericanas, especialmente Venezuela y Cuba, rechacé la posibilidad de convertirnos en una república bananera junto al movimiento independentista socialista.

Lamentablemente, el único movimiento independentista de derecha fue el Partido Nacionalista de Pedro Albizu Campos, pero fue perseguido y hostigado hasta prácticamente desaparecer.

El único movimiento independentista que quedó fue la disidencia controlada y aun sus integrantes fueron perseguidos, vigilados y hostigados.

Decidí apoyar el movimiento estadista porque me parecía que garantizaba algún tipo de libertad al formar parte de una nación independiente.

En mil ochocientos noventa y ocho, si no éramos españoles, ¿qué éramos? ¿Por qué esa insistencia del partido independentista en hacernos odiar a España? Podría entenderlo de un estadista, pero no de un independentista.

Todo lo que somos se lo debemos a España.

Pedro Albizu Campos dijo una vez: “Quienes no se sienten orgullosos de su ascendencia nunca serán dignos, porque comienzan odiándose a sí mismos”.

Creo que esa es la base de la baja autoestima colectiva de algunos puertorriqueños.

At this point, after seeing the poor examples of the Hispanic American republics, especially the cases of Venezuela and Cuba, I rejected being a banana republic with the independent socialist movement.

Sadly, the only right-wing independence movement was the Nationalist Party with Pedro Albizu Campos, but they were persecuted and harassed into extinction.

The only independence movement left was the controlled dissidents, and even those were being persecuted, spied on, and harassed.

I chose to support the statehood movement because it guaranteed some sort of freedom being part of an independent nation.

Back in 1898, if we were not Spaniards, what were we? Why that insistence of the Independence Party to make us hate Spain? I could understand that from a statehooder, but not from the Independence Party.

Everything we are, we owe it to Spain.

Pedro Albizu Campos once said, Those who are not proud of their ancestry will never be worthy, will be worthless, because they start by hating themselves.

I think that is the base of the collective low self-esteem of some Puerto Ricans.

He issued a public apology, but after learning that his apology was not well received and that the letter was going to be discussed at an upcoming meeting of the Puerto Rico medical association, he decides to bail.

claiming a family emergency and he returns to the states never setting foot in puerto rico again good yeah not long after his departure the letter landed in the hands of pedro albizu campos the president of the nationalist party of puerto rico this political party it was founded in 1922 so just about a decade before the rhodes letter scandal um it was a party built with the primary goal of gaining puerto rican independence for the united states the party does still exist today though it's not particularly active these days in the 1930s however this was the height of the party and so a letter from an american doctor talking about using his privilege and position granted to him by the mainland to inflict harm and perhaps even death upon puerto ricans electrified the group yeah Albizu Campos ensured that all the right people got wind of the letter.

He sent copies of it to the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU, the League of Nations, the Pan American Union, and even to the Vatican.

Oh my gosh.