The 100 years of lies, deception , racism again the Puerto Rican people by the US Congress and the Puerto Rico leaders.
341709
An eye opening expose showing the 100 year old colony name Puerto Rico.  It shows how we have been lied to by our own leaders, from Muoz Marn to Rafael Hernandez Colon.  It also shows that if we are to change our colonial status, that can only be done by going to Congress and bugging the crap out of them until they either accept us into the union or relinquish their control over the island.  In the words of President Franklin D Roosevelt, "there is nothing to fear, but fear it self".  Basically, we Puerto Ricans have to get our heads out of our ass and get to Congress to affect real change in a peaceful way.
4360524
Disgusting how our US government (Europeans/whites) treated every tribe with hostility. Never honoring the treaties and killing and stealing their land.
142771
This wonderful interview was done with Fidel Castro by Merynn M. Dymally (then head of the Congressional Black Caucus). and his advisor Jeffrey M. Elliot. A small portion of their extensive interview in 1985 appeared in Playboy.

Castro answers many of the US slanders at the time, such are their alleged drug smuggling, and the lies about Cuba's role in Grenada (for more on this, see&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Maurice-Bishop-Speaks-The-Grenada-Revolution-and-Its-Overthrow-1979-83/dp/0873486129/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Maurice Bishop Speaks: The Grenada Revolution and Its Overthrow 1979-83</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/New-International-no-6-The-Second-Assassination-of-Maurice-Bishop/dp/0873486412/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">New International no 6: The Second Assassination of Maurice Bishop</a>. There is also a lot on Cuba's relationship with Nicaragua  (see also&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Sandinistas-Speak-Speeches-Writings-and-Interviews-with-Leaders-of-Nicaragua-s-Revolution/dp/0873486196/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Sandinistas Speak: Speeches, Writings, and Interviews with Leaders of Nicaragua's Revolution</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/New-International-no-9-The-Rise-and-Fall-of-the-Nicaraguan-Revolution/dp/0873487508/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">New International no. 9: The Rise and Fall of the Nicaraguan Revolution</a>.

Of course Southern Africa comes up, which there is a huge amount of good material on, but start with&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Cuba-and-Angola-Fighting-for-Africa-s-Freedom-and-Our-Own/dp/1604880465/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Cuba and Angola: Fighting for Africa's Freedom and Our Own</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/How-Far-We-Slaves-Have-Come-South-Africa-and-Cuba-in-Today-s-World/dp/087348729X/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">How Far We Slaves Have Come! South Africa and Cuba in Today's World</a>, and&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/The-Coming-Revolution-in-South-Africa-New-International-no-5/dp/0873486404/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">The Coming Revolution in South Africa (New International no. 5)</a>.

Happy Reading!
2453281
History is a Great Teacher.  The lies, deceit, and manipulation of the facts led to the worst military experience in U.S. History.  LBJ and McNamara were able to keep the details of the war secret from the press and the Joint Chief of Staff.  It's amazing how much power LBJ had and the Vietnam war was escalated gradually at the expense of American lives.  Thousands were killed in Vietnam because LBJ and his civilian groupies wanted to pass the "Great Society" through congress.  This is a MUST read.  This is where the SWAMP started.
1136757
Cuando Nos Vamos a Levantar de Ese viaje de tener la misma imagen que usan los Raperos Afro-Americanos,

Wow! es que el Boricua no despierta y no puede desarrollar una imagen propia....Cierto o Falso?....Hoy antes de acostarme vere todos mis videos de Reggaeton y pensare en ello...si los boricuas son Morenos "wannabees"

No es por criticar; pero esto es otro producto que no tiene nada que ofrecerle a mi generacion Puertorra; Ni adentro de Puerto Rico y Mucho menos fuera de Puerto Rico, especialmente en paises como EEUU en donde en vez de preocuparnos por todas las atrocidades y actos de racismo en contra de nuestra gente latina y Puertorriquea nos preocupamos pol' que llegue el jodio "wiken" pa' ir a una discoteca como "FUEL" en Tampa pa' estar como huelebicho detras de una vellaca... El DESBALANCE DE REGGAETON lo unico que tiene para ofrecer es ignorancia, degradacion de sexo, falta de amor propio y un falso sentido de identidad Puertorriquea.

Mi gente Boricua: vamos a enfocarnos en prograsar si bamos a estar fuera de PR, si lo que queremos es estar jodios quedemonos en Puerto Rico!...

Mh
3567908
Every Puertorican MUST read this. It's important to know our history beyond what they put in our textbooks.
1332212
As a "puertoriqueno" i am always reading about the history of PR.Thats why i picked up this book. However i was very dissapointed with the way the author tells the story. The book reads as a personal diatribe against Spain and USA.Every page has some form of finger pointing , blaming or attack on anything that sands on the way of the "puertoriquenos".At some point during my reading, i felt very bored because the author is always criticizing and arguing against the USA.This author is not impartial, he is just mad and rambling about everything. I don't recommend this book since history is not the main thing here. The important thing here for the author is for his ranting to be heard.
1032037
I remember this whole story when I was in my 20's and didn't really think much, considering I lived in St. Louis at the time.  To me this was just the same old things I heard from my transplanted New Yorker Friends. That corruption in every aspect ran wild in NYC.  Not just the law, but in business as well.  Some 20+ years later I was astonished at how this whole thing played out.  The filmed statements from the 5 men were especially telling to me.  It is sad that these men lost years of their lives and are forever branded for the rest of their lives, while the law enforcement and judicial personel involved lived their lives with no remorse. It just amazes me how these people can sleep at night.
4767987
Sad story how we treated the American Indians, government lies, hate and killing.
2795954
Wow!! An excellent History of Moors/Amurru label today as  Black/Negro/Coloured/Negoids/ Jamaicans/Haitians/Tianos/Bahamians, the total West Indies/Caribbean and African- Americans, etc.. The HISTORY of these "So-Called Black People is so revealing it had to be hidden, AND so significant, it could not be discarded,  it had to be given to the so call Red-Man/ so call Indian, today. Google: [Senate Hearing 110-686] [From the U.S. Government Printing Office] HEARING BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS UNITED STATES SENATE ( and DISCOVER how Moors ( labeled as African-Americans, Blacks, Negro,etc.) were FIRST CALL the NATIVE AMERICANS then later under the "Racial Integrity Act" of the 1920s were reclassified and 'forced under duress of imprisonment to label themselves as Black, Negro and Coloured on their birth-Certificate instead of Moors/Amurru / Native Americans ( Native tribe NAMES) or face a felony charge and imprisoned, which also included the doctors, nurses and midwifes whom were in charge delivering births and signing off on Birth-Certificates).

Further, this book reveals treaties and ancient court documents from 1700s proving that slavery was a myth. The history of slavery was  used to remove the knowledge of the Americas belonging to the Black People from all people.. One cannot claim, being that One does not know. This book further reveals Court documented proofs and various other legislated proofs that the Americas does belong to the Moors labeled today as African-Americans / Black People.

Please: if you can't handle the "truth," DO NOT purchase this book...and I repeat, if  you cannot handle the truth, please do not purchase this book...... Linkhaan
3893765
Most interesting.  Too bad our government cannot be truthful with us.  Hard to understand why we were so duped!!  I personally know some of the workers that were involved in the recovery and what our government told us is not what they experienced.  Sad!
4921193
The seminal documentation of the atrocities committed by the Spanish against the New World indigenous, all carried out in the name of God. It also provides insights into the background of those who carried out such deeds. A must read.
3497430
Thanks for misleading Americans. Job well done. I just cannot imagine a person can lie so much and even intentionally misleading others.
118964
Only in a country like Argentina, wihere big part of the population dislikes and blames the US for their own sins, this collection of fabrications and frankly ridiculous lies could have any success. This guy is a murderer and manipulator that needs to be sent back to Denver to face justice.
248485
Shame on the proud, arrogant, and ignorant people who distort the facts of history by calling the Alamo a victory and who still believe that manifest destiny was a divine calling, to suit their own purposes.  Even the (now revered) Texas rangers then were a bunch of thugs who sent themselves out to kill native americans, authorized at one time by Lamar.

Thank you, S.C. Gwynne, for writing this book.  This book should be required reading for every school child in Texas.
2322735
It goes to show that lies keep the American people from overhauling our systematic Goverment. What is past is prologue
91622
"Cuando era puertorriquea", escrita por Esmeralda Santiago, es una historia verdadera sobre la vida de la autora.  Esmeralda, apodada Negi, cuenta los sucesos ms impactantes de su vida, desde su niez hasta su edad adulta, de una manera sencilla, cruda y directa, la cual permite que el lector se viva la historia. Con las descripciones detalladas, el lector puede apreciar cmo era la vida de los puertorriqueos en el rea rural de Puerto Rico y cmo cambia la vida de los mismos al emigrar a Nueva York.

A travs de la historia se ve como Negi es forzada a madurar a temprana edad debido a la pobreza en la que viva y las dificultades que enfrent por la relacin inestable de sus padres. Es muy interesante ver su punto de vista al vivir en los principios de la americanizacin de Puerto Rico.  En fin es una historia sumamente interesante y bien contada.  Sin embargo, contiene varios errores en espaol que puede que moleste o distraiga a algunos, pero se entiende que los mismos fueron hechos a propsito para que el lector entre ms en la historia. Otro aspecto no muy positivo del libro es que se presenta principalmente la parte fea de Puerto Rico, esto puede dar una impresin incorrecta al pblico extranjero.

Esta novela  puede ser de inters a cualquier persona extranjera, o incluso a los mismos puertorriqueos, que deseen conocer a fondo la cultura puertorriquea y su historia. Tambin le interesara mucho a los puertorriqueosque emigraron, pues tendrn la oportunidad de volver a su isla en la lectura y recordar el Puerto Rico de sus infancias con lujo de detalle. Adems, los estadounidenses tendrn la oportunidad de ver dentro de las vidas de los miles de puertorriqueos que han inmigrado a su pas. Vern todas las dificultades que encuentran estos emigrantes que abandonan todo lo que conocen buscando una mejor vida. Muchos de ellos, como Negi, se sienten destrozados al abandonar su isla, su hogar. La misma Negi, quien en un punto acepta su nueva vida con esperanza de cambio, dice que nunca dejar de ser puertorriquea. Ella se considera ambas cosas: puertorriquea y americana; una hbrida.