[NYTr] PR Gov Accuses US of Lying to the World
 
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:13:52 -0600 (CST)

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PR Gov Accuses US of Lying to the World

by Nestor Rosa-Marbrell

San Juan, Nov 20 (Prensa Latina) Governor Anibal Acevedo accused the
United States on Monday of having deceived the international community
in 1953, when it succeeded in having the Free Associated State (FAS) of
Puerto Rico recognized as a decolonizing statute.

In a six-page letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the Puerto
Rican governor said the White House has deceived the Puerto Rican
people, the US people and the international community.

Acevedo's statements came at a time when US authorities are
investigating his funding of his election campaigns.

He pointed out that if the US government does not want to recognize the
FAS as a decolonizing statute, it must tell the world and be
responsible for the legal consequences.

The governor says that due to the White House's "territorial"
characterization of the FAS, the United States must admit that it
deceived the world in 1953 when it succeeded in having Puerto Rico
excluded from the list of colonial countries.

In the future, and as a result of the insult and deceit in the Report
from the Working Group, I will have no other choice but to withdraw the
traditional support we have given the United States at the United
Nations on that issue, the governor said in his letter to Rice.

The annexationist Partido Nuevo Progresista (PNP), the main opposition
organization, and the Puerto Rican Independentist Party are working to
have the US Congress to recognize the colonial nature of the current
FAS status.

Acevedo noted that the best process to channel the Puerto Rican
people's hopes and their relation with the United States is through the
Constitutional Convention to pass a self-determination act as a
democratic alternative.

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