Sunday, July 309 2006

Beware the nation- patria-pueblo turned a major of this quandary, but of the politicalcorner onJuly23at monumental political burnps the moment Salinas' Miss- this nation-patria-pueblo has Puerto Rico, , suffered upon itself during catapulted into stardom over the pastdecade. and aboye entries from During thirty-one years in eighty plus aspiring nations Cuba before and after Fidel to become . Castro and ten in More so than theprevious before and after Carlos four wins, this event could Andrés Pérez,i witnessed well prove a grimíorebodmg close up the self-infficted to allPuerto Ricans whó forces that drove both dream of becoming fuil- nafions into the hands of fledged citi- non-benevolent dictators. 1 zens via the statehood see many of these same process. ingredients brewing today With the Bush administra- within Puerto Rico: shaky tion ever more enmeshed in leadership, fiscal irresponsi- the quagmire they have bility, petty politics, govern- stirred up in the Middle mental confusion, aud, worse East, events occurring m the of ah, no clear consensus Caribbean basin and South toward the long-term future. America have been buried Divided, the nation-patria- deep and out of mmd in pueblo will fail into the grips sorne distant oceanic of the evil axis. The time is canyon. Distracted U.S. lead- ripe for a true patriot to ers fail to focus on the ever- come forth to forge a union

rising tsunami that now that all within this island o- overwhelms many of the truly deserve. nations betweenthe Miss Rivera proved yet Zuleyka Rivera Mendoza, 2006, reacts Straights of Magellan and again that Puerto Rico is after winning the pageant on Sunday, the Rio Grande. world-class. Unfortunately, July 23, in . While Maurice Ferré the prominence of this win (STAR, July 19) argues will cause the enemy-axis to Time is running out. The they hope to bequeath the Puerto Rico is a"nation" and focus ever more intently on axis of evil is way ahead of freedoms enjoyed by this Guillermo Moscoso (STAR, the Isla del Encanto to fur- the United States in bonding great nation-patria-pueblo to July 27) insists it is a patria- ther fire their egotistical with all islands Within the future generations. pueblo, the Castro/Chávez totalitarian ambitions Caribbean Basin. Puerto axis of evil steadily doses in toward freeing it from all Rican leaders need to act William Butier Salazar to take advantage, not only links to the USA. wisely and seriously, now, if Santurce