"The freedom of Puerto Rico is pending, and we will achieve it with Brazilian troops," the Venezuelan president said.

Of course the capitalist rag had to add "" to liberate.

  • merthyr1831@lemmy.ml
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    6 days ago

    PR supporting statehood over independence isn't all that surprising. There's benefits to being integrated into the empire at an individualist level but uncertainty and possibly more struggle through independence whilst under the heel of Imperial capital.