Puerto Rico: Independence Is a Necessity

Rafael Cancel Miranda

ISBN 10: 0873488954 / ISBN 13: 9780873488952

Published by Pathfinder Press (NY), 2001

booklet edition. 38 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.25 inches. In Stock. Seller Inventory # 0873488954

Synopsis:

“Our people are becoming aware of their own strength, which is what the colonial powers fear,” explains Puerto Rican independence leader Rafael Cancel Miranda. In two interviews, Cancel Miranda—one of five Puerto Rican Nationalists imprisoned by Washington for more than 25 years until 1979—speaks out on the brutal reality of US colonial domination, the campaign to free Puerto Rican political prisoners, the example of Cuba’s socialist revolution, and the resurgence of the independence movement today.

Appendix: Political prisoners in US prisons in 1998.

Also available in Spanish (ISBN:9780873488969), Farsi (ISBN:9789645783011)

About the Author:

Rafael Cancel Miranda (1930–2020), a leader of Puerto Rico’s independence struggle, was one of the five Puerto Rican Nationalists who spent more than a quarter-century in US prisons following armed protests they carried out in Washington against colonial rule. Freed from prison in 1979 through an international defense campaign, Cancel Miranda continued to speak out around the world for his country’s independence and the release of Puerto Rican political prisoners still held in US jails. He addressed, above all, the new generation joining this struggle.

Cancel Miranda is the author of Puerto Rico: Independence Is a Necessity (1998) and a contributor to Voices from Prison: The Cuban Five (2014).

Bibliographic Details

Title: Puerto Rico: Independence Is a Necessity
Publisher: Pathfinder Press (NY)
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Brand New