Thirty-five years of Yankee intervention amounts in numbers, to the important sum of some four hundred million dollars. Judging by that numerical result, Puerto Rico would be today what it was before the intervention, an empire of wealth. However, let us see the results. North American banking has directed the industrialist and the merchant of its country to deprive us of all possible benefits derived from our commerce with Estados Unidos de Norte América. Not a dollar of that enormous wealth that the national commercial balance represents has entered Puerto Rico. The national inheritance in national hands is mortgaged to North American finance. Cuba has suffered an experience very similar to ours, with the North American reciprocity treaty. Spurred on by its distressing adversity, the North American empire turns friendly towards Ibero-America. To its offers of friendship, ask it what it means against our civilization and culture to pretend to impose the English language as the only vehicle of teaching in Puerto Rico; what it means to have ruined the agriculture, commerce, and industry of the country; why it did not respect the Autonomy of Puerto Rico under whose statute it found the nation in the fruitful year of 1898; and finally, why it maintains its armed intervention for thirty-five years without any pretext that can justify it? Immense as is what the design of the official Flag of the Raza, which Captain don Angel Camblor had the privilege of conceiving and officially accepted by the Gobierno de la República Oriental del Uruguay, aspires to represent, it is not a pretense. It synthesizes the transcendental traditions and the aspirations of our nationalities which are summarized in the words Unión, Justicia, Fraternidad y Paz, principles in whose defense the Nacionalismo de Puerto Rico remains unharmed in fulfillment of its racial duty against the imperialism that has done the most damage to our nationalities, that is, the North American empire. A common symbol means common action. Decisive. In the fight for the preservation of our civilization, Puerto Rico has revealed the strength of the Raza. North American intervention has not been able to make a dent in our Hispano-American personality and marches resolutely against foreign imposition. Our Homeland is an emulating bulwark against foreign interference. A flag is not raised to lower it. If Puerto Rico alone has defeated in its domains the sinister designs of the enemy against Ibero-American grandeur in a bloody struggle of thirty-five years of Yankee intervention; what force will be able to stop the Ibero-American hegemony in the Nuevo Mundo when all its nations march to the reconquest of their glory under a single flag? Our immense racial patrimony is the object of the greed of all the imperialist powers, and it is under the aegis of our union that it can be defended.
For these reasons, the Junta Nacional Resolves: First, to accept said design as the Flag of the Raza; Second: to request of our nations’ acceptance, order it to be raised jointly with the national flag. Given in San Juan de Puerto Rico on the 26th day of August of 1933, the sixty-fifth year of the Proclamación de la República. Partido Nacionalista de Puerto Rico La Junta Nacional P. ALBIZU CAMPOS Presidente JOSE LAMEIRO Secretario de Relaciones Exteriores
A flag is not raised to lower it… A symbol of the eternal life of nationality holds immortality as an offering. June 17, 1934 - Río Piedras P. Albizu Campos
In May of 1926 the Mexican intellectual José Vasconcelos visited the city of Ponce and met with the nationalist leadership. Here we see him seated in the center and surrounded by: (first row from left to right) Elpidio de Mier; Luis Emilio .Aybar, Dominican Consul; Vasconcelos; E. Domínguez Torres, Cuban Consul; Ramón Mayoral Barnés. (Second row): Federico Acosta Velarde, Presidente del Partido Nacionalista; R. Dalmau Canet; J. Gonzâlez Orona; R Pierranroni; Pedro Albizu Campos; Antonio ,{rbona Oliver and J M. Benítez. -“ Manifesto before the visit of the president of Estados Unidos The nation is facing the expectation of another unwelcome visit. Again a chief of the North American empire wants to cross the threshold of the Home patrio without prior invitation from anyone in Puerto Rico. Aboard a warship, with a Squadra as escort, forcing entry to our ports. He comes as commander in chief of all the sea and land forces of Estados Unidos de Norte América to inspect his subordinates in charge of maintaining the North American military intervention in our country. Under this regime of force, the personal will of the chief of the empire is the government, in accordance with the Constitución and the North American laws. The subordinate organisms, such as the insular legislature, the tribunals and administrative entities, must function according to his desire, or he can ignore or suppress them with a simple decree of martial law, without having to wait for the prior consent of any authority. Responsible in person for the complete administration, he must be invested with all the powers. To attend to the internal conveniences of his cabinet, Mr. Roosevelt resolved to transfer, by himself, by virtue of a decree, the affairs of Puerto Rico from the Departamento de la Guerra to the Departamento de lo Interior, of the North American Gobierno. Of course, neither the insular legislature nor the political parties most loyal to the regime were consulted. Neither the Yankee Gobierno nor its current chief have given reasons for this change. Foreign despotism, in order to be respectable, will impose itself without explanations. El Mundo, June 30, 1914, p.2 and 8.