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PUERTO RICO has continued its push for independence nearly two years after Hurricane Maria exposed US “hypocrisy and bias” toward the Caribbean island.
Puerto Ricans petition the UN on an annual basis in the hope that the island can gain independence, and activists made the demand again yesterday at a special hearing of the United Nations decolonisation committee.
The UN has been considering the political status of Puerto Rico since 1953 and has been working to assist it to achieve independence or “decolonisation.”
On January 29, US President Donald Trump declared Cuba an ‘unusual and extraordinary threat’ to US national security and tightened the blockade against the island nation MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS reports
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