More pics of our struggle

[Acosta360]

More pictures: http://www.revolutionaryleft.com/index.php?showtopic=48531

"We will continue our struggle for descolonization and independence of Puerto Rico."

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[RebelDog]

Revolutionary tidings. Good luck in the struggle.

[violencia.Proletariat]

these should go in the pictures forum

[Acosta360]

Originally posted by [email protected] 10 2006, 01:50 AM
these should go in the pictures forum
Can anyone move it to the pictures forum?

[Correa]

Esa es la que! Cuando y donde fue esta protesta? Tengo que llamar a mi panita en la UP para preguntarle si ahi estuvo. Nice pictures, good lookin' out papí!

[Abood]

Nice pics. Good luck :)
Question: How did Puerto Rico end up in American hands?

[WUOrevolt]

Originally posted by Socialist [email protected] 13 2006, 02:21 PM
Nice pics. Good luck :)
Question: How did Puerto Rico end up in American hands?
Spanish American War

[razboz]

i was just wondering: If Puerto Rico were to be independant of AMerican influence how well would it do from ana economical point of view. What resources does it have?

[Correa]

Agriculture is very similar to Cuba's although it is set up in such a fasion that if it were to be freed from colonialism it would have to revamp its economy.

From Wikipedia:

In the early 1900's the greatest contributor to Puerto Rico's economy was agriculture, its main crop being sugar. In the late 1940's a series of projects called Operation Bootstrap encouraged, using tax exemptions, the establishment of factories. Thus manufacturing replaced agriculture as the main industry.

The economic conditions in Puerto Rico have improved dramatically since the Great Depression due to external investment in capital-intensive industry such as petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, and technology. Once the beneficiary of special tax treatment from the U.S. government, today local industries must compete with those in more economically depressed parts of the world where wages are not subject to U.S. minimum wage legislation. In recent years, some U.S. and foreign owned factories have moved to lower wage countries in Latin America and Asia. Puerto Rico is subject to U.S. trade laws and restrictions.

Tourism is an important component of the Puerto Rican economy supplying an approximate $1.8 billion. In 1999 an estimated 5 million tourists visited the island, most from the United States. Nearly a third of these are cruise ship passengers. An increase in hotel registrations, which has been observed since 1998, and the construction of new hotels and the Puerto Rico Convention Center are indicators of the current strength of the tourism industry.

Puerto Ricans had a per capita GDP estimate of $17,700 for 2004 [16] , which demonstrates a growth over the $14,412 level measured in the 2002 Current Population Survey by the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund [17]. In that survey, Puerto Ricans have a 48.2% poverty rate. By comparison, the poorest State of the Union, Mississippi, had a median level of $21,587, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey, 2002 to 2004 Annual Social and Economic Supplements [18]. Since 1952, the gap between Puerto Rico's per capita income and U.S. national levels has essentially remained unchanged — one third the U.S. national average and roughly half that of the poorest state.