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Mon Jun 23, 2014, 11:45 AM Jun 2014

Know Your History: Remembering Lolita Lebrón | Mickey Z.


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Mickey Z. -- World News Trust

June 23, 2014

“No other woman in the Hemisphere has been in prison on such charges for so long a period (as Lolita Lebrón); a fact which Communist critics of your human rights policy are fond of pointing out.”

—National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski,
in a secret memo to President Jimmy Carter (1979)


When early American revolutionaries chanted, “Give me liberty or give me death” and complained of having but one life to give for their country, they became the enduring heroes of our (sic) history textbooks.

Thanks to the power of the U.S. media and education industries, the Puerto Rican nationalists who just as passionately dedicated their lives to the cause of independence are known as criminals, fanatics, and terrorists.

Case in point: Lolita Lebrón.

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