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a day like today: the nationalist attack U.S. Congress in 1954

March is a month of many important historical events in our history, beginning with the shooting of the U.S. Congress on March 1, 1954 by four Puerto Rican nationalist Lolita Lebron Rafael Cancel Miranda, Irving Flores and Andrés Figueroa Cordero. The leader was

Lolita and if in doubt, read the words of Don Pedro Albizu Campos in the interview which gave The Fair (March 3, 1954) after the attack. Albizu also explains the reasons for it:

"Our faith in law gave us an infinite patience to resist the excesses of the American occupying power. That patience has confused our U.S. leaders that we ranked among the peoples liabilities of the earth and brought to the insolence of that, being victims of their empire, trying to recruit our children by force to serve its imperialist aims in the world.

do not know how a nation has been able to endure such insolence for so long.

the same story is repeated: because the woman embodies nationality. Why is it always a representative level is she and posterity.
A Puerto Rican heroin sublime beauty has again pointed to the history of all nations that she is home and we can not conceive of the same slave.

Lolita Lebron and the knights of the race who was accompanied on this journey of sublime heroism, have warned the United States, emboldened by their atomic bombs, that duty obliges them to respect the independence of all nations to respect the independence of Puerto Rico. And that Puerto Ricans will respect that right sacred homeland. "

These statements earned him Don Pedro final prison for violating the Gag Rule. Lolita was a prisoner in a women's prison in West Virginia for 25 years until President Carter pardoned the four nationalists. The then governor, Carlos Romero Barceló, opposed their release because they would promote terrorism in the island. Those who have lived in Puerto Rico for three decades in which Lolita lived on his beloved island fighting for his ideal in a peaceful manner, they will know who was awarded the largest instigator of violence in the country.

From this side of things I salute you, Lolita Lebron, and as a Puerto Rican I appreciate your dignity, integrity, loyalty to your principles and huge courage.