A message to the two party system on the island of Puerto Rico

🟥 A Message to the PNP and PPD: The People Are Awake

To the two-party system in Puerto Rico — the PNP and the PPD:

For decades, you have misled, manipulated, and lied to the people of Puerto Rico. Your legacy is one of corruption, mismanagement, and betrayal. Because of your actions, countless families have been forced to leave the island — separated from loved ones — in search of basic dignity and opportunity.

Puerto Rico is in crisis, and everyone knows it: 🏥 A collapsing healthcare system 🏚️ A housing crisis ⚡ Constant blackouts and power instability 🎓 A broken education system 🚔 Rising crime and insecurity

Yet every election cycle, you return with the same tired strategy — exploiting the status debate: statehood, independence, or the current commonwealth. You recycle the same rhetoric, not to empower the people, but to secure your own reelection. You fuel division just enough to drive voter turnout while deliberately silencing the truth.

What truth?

That there is a fourth option — one that predates U.S. colonial rule. An option that was legally recognized and implemented in 1897:

🇵🇷 Puerto Rico as an autonomous province of Spain — just like the Canary Islands are today.

In 1897, Puerto Ricans had representation in the Spanish Parliament. They had autonomy. Self-governance. A real voice. But in 1898, all of that was stolen — not by popular vote, but by military invasion.

And since then, the PNP and PPD have buried that history. You’ve kept our people in the dark. You’ve suppressed education about the Carta Autonómica de 1897. You’ve refused to discuss Spain’s 1978 Constitution, which transformed Spain into a modern democracy with civil rights, regional autonomy, and full representation within the European Union.

You hide the fact that reunification with Spain is not colonization — It’s a path to modern self-government, dignity, and European citizenship.

But we also must be honest with ourselves.

Beyond corrupt politicians, it is voters themselves who carry blame — for electing the same faces year after year. Many senators and assembly members have held their seats for decades. The people of Puerto Rico must wake up too.

The silence ends now.

We are the Puerto Rican and Spain Initiative — a growing movement committed to truth, transparency, and justice.

We will educate every Puerto Rican about what was taken from us. We will remind our people of who we were — and who we can be again.

Not voiceless subjects of a failed colonial experiment — but citizens of a democratic and united Spain.

We are reclaiming our history. We are reclaiming our voice. And we will not allow another 125 years of silence.

¡Que viva Puerto Rico! ¡Y que viva España!