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Truman y Puerto Rico: el origen de un proyecto descolonizador fallido (Spanish Edition) Hardcover – May 9, 2019

Spanish Edition by Angel Collado-Schwarz (Author), Sylvia Vazquez (Editor), Marcos Pastrana (Illustrator)

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Atlantic Charter in 1941 promoting the world's decolonization. US granted independence to the Philippines and created the perception of decolonizing Puerto Rico with the establishment of the Commonwealth. This is the story of President Harry S. Truman and his principal advisor, Fleet Admiral William D Leahy (former Governor of Puerto Rico) role in creating the perception of Puerto Rico's decolonization. Truman appointed the first Puerto Rican governor; approved the law for Puerto Ricans to elect their governor and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico new Constitution. The book covers the controlling role of the US Navy over Puerto Rico and the island's protagonism during World War II and the Cold War.

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This book is key to understand, with historic depth, the current circunstances in Puerto Rico. Collado-Schwarz's analysis about the interlocking of the changes in the political arrangement in Puerto Rico with the objectives of the US and the dynamic of the global conflict between the US and the Soviet Union is critical to understand the meaning and the limits of the changes. The readers will find not only a valuable perspective which relates the local with the global, but certain new elements which are the results of a comprehensive research from sources never before researched about the political history of Puerto Rico. This is a history narrated in an captivating way with elements of intrigue and personal divergences. --Dr. Jorge Rodríguez-Beruff

About the Author

Angel Collado Schwarz is visiting professor at Yale, Columbia and New York Universities. Author of several books including "Decolonization Models for America's Last Colony: Puerto Rico", published in Spanish, English and Mandarin. He hosts a weekly educational radio program on Univision- Puerto Rico and New York. He has given conferences at several universities including Harvard, MIT, Georgetown and Vanderbilt. He publishes a monthly op-ed piece in the leading newspaper in Puerto Rico.