Remezcla https://remezcla.com/tag/luchas/ Our Thing Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:27:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://remezcla.com/wp-content/themes/remezcla/assets/images/social/precomposed-144x144.png Remezcla https://remezcla.com/tag/luchas/ 144 144 Luchas: Indigenous Activists in Puerto Rico Call for Removal of Colonial Monuments https://remezcla.com/features/culture/luchas-indigenous-activists-in-puerto-rico-call-for-removal-of-colonial-monuments/ Fri, 24 Jul 2020 20:47:10 +0000 https://local.remezcla.com?post_type=re_features&p=283027 As the United States sees a major swell in the removal of its confederate monuments and flags, the country’s oldest colony, Puerto Rico, has yet to undergo its own transformation. Tributes to colonization—sculptures, public plazas, and even roads that pay homage to Christopher Colombus and Juan Ponce de León, for example—remain mostly untouched, save for

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]]> Merchant Logo-PR_Boriken-15 Pluma Barbara Moreno, Indigenous Activist, stated that let even though the island has been violently colonized, the spirit of the people has not. Photo by Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi for Remezcla