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Independence has been an emotional cause for more than a century. In Puerto Rico's universities, among older intellectuals and even within a faction of the ruling party, various shades of independentista sentiment persist. Alfonso Valdes Jr., a prosperous businessman and former Chamber of Commerce president, sighs and says: "Independence is very close to my heart. It is a romantic idea and deep down, emotionally, most Puerto Ricans feel sympathy for it. But it is impractical for as long as we can see. It just would not work." Adds Alex Maldonado, editor of the pro-Commonwealth El Mundo...
...favor of a comely aide, Muñoz took over the Popular Democratic Party's drive to retain common wealth status. Ever since, he has been stumping like a young Congressman, speaking to small groups of party regulars and on radio and television. Once a hot-eyed independentista who called the U.S. an "opulent kleptomaniac," Muñoz now argues persuasively, if melodramatically: "Statehood is the vulture that would sit over the corpse of the Puerto Rican economy...
...over the city, crowds began upsetting and burning British cars and police jeeps. They burst into the city hall and ran an Italian flag up to half-staff. On the third day they broke into Independentista headquarters, threw furniture, draperies and records out of the windows. When the rioters surged toward the Piazza dell'Unitá again, the police tried to stop them with jeep and motorcycle charges. Then they fired their carbines into the crowd, and that cleared the square, except for the dead and wounded...
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