Newly declassified CIA documents reveal the agency's extensive monitoring of Puerto Rican independence movements from the 1960s to the 1980s under the guise of Operation CHAOS. The program, fueled by Cold War anxieties, targeted the Pro-Independence Movement (MPI) and its successor, the Puerto Rican Socialist Party (PSP), amid concerns about potential alliances with leftist groups and Cuba.
Ponce’s Museo de la Masacre is monument to Puerto Rican pro-independence demonstrators shot and killed by police on Palm Sunday in 1937.‘ Publisher and my father, Wilbert “Bill” Tatum, before me.
MINH) called on representatives in the Puerto Rican government to speak out against the MHCHAOS program. “The least that would be expected of those who claim to represent the Puerto Rican people is that they take a position in defense of the civil and human rights of the population,” During the 2024 Puerto Rican general elections, the Puerto Rican Independence Party’s gubernatorial candidate, Juan Dalmau, garnered 32.7% of the popular vote. He came in second in the contest to be the next governor.
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