Six puerto ricans who support Puerto Rico's sovereignty interrupted the U.S. congress yesterday. The leading newspaper of Puerto Rico identified the six persons as well known Puerto Rican artists and musicians. Luis Gutierrez, puerto rican descent US Rep(D- IL) told the puerto rican press that this was a patriotic (puerto rican) claim and a fair and morally correct claim to end colonialism. Puerto Rico's leading newspaper also published their photos long after their arrest. They were released later after being detained for more than 5 hours, the group is expected to arrive to Puerto Rico tomorrow.
Singing 'Oubao Moin' (a patriotic puerto rican folk song), with signs that read '111 years of Colony'' ''It’s a shame: End the colony" and carrying the national flag of Puerto Rico, the six puerto ricas who included well known artists, interrupted the House session shouting slogans against the colonial situation of Puerto Rico. The press in Puerto Rico interviewed one of them minutes after the arrest and told El Nuevo Día that 'Freedom should not be debated in referendum elections, slaves do not have (or do) referendum elections to see if they want to be enslaved'.
In the summer of 2008, the former Head of Government of Puerto Rico went to the United Nations to denounce the colonial situation of Puerto Rico at the UN-Decolonization Committee and the way the US has not resolve Puerto Rico's sovereignty issue under the present status, issue that was suposed to be resolved after 1953 when the United Nations (U.S. also approved the UN resolution) took Puerto Rico out of the non-self governing countries (see UN resolution 748, 1953), Puerto Rico achieved self governing status and it's own constitution in 1952, but not it's sovereignty which is being hold by the U.S Congress since 1898, by an outdated principle called 'right of conquest' (see: Treaty of Paris).
Puerto Rican TV networks showed when the six puerto ricans disrupted the U.S. Congress session yesterday. You can hear the song 'Ouboi Moin' and some slogans out loud (wait for second 23). Ouboi Moin is a poem by one of Puerto Rico's most reknown poets of the 20th century, the poem was later turned into a patriotic folk song (a verse translated into english: Glory to the hands, to all puerto rican hands that help build a new liberated nation)
See video here: http://www.wapa.tv/...