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University at Albany, State University of New York

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2020

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The Capital Insurrection And The Puerto Rican Summer Uprising, Pedro Caban Apr 2020

The Capital Insurrection And The Puerto Rican Summer Uprising, Pedro Caban

Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies Faculty Scholarship

The Capital insurrection in Washington DC was not an anomaly in American Politics. It was the latest instance of a history of violence by white supremacists to preserve their power and status at the cost of democracy. The uprising in Puerto Rico in Summer 2019 was a massive social movement to restore democracy by removing a corrupt government that was unaccountable to the people,