The Puerto Rican interpreter Resident said this Tuesday that knock down statues of “colonizers and racists is not to erase history, it is to remake it”, while announcing new music for July 2.
In this way, the rapper referred to the arrest of hundreds of people in the United States, the country of which Puerto Rico is an Associated Free State, for vandalizing statues and monuments amid racial protests and against police brutality.
The main objective of the protesters have been the Confederate symbols (defenders of slavery during the Civil War), which abound especially in the southern states, but statues of the Spanish conquerors or the “founding fathers” of States have also been attacked. United.
The artist spoke like this on Twitter, where he also announced new music today through a short video on his social networks that reads: “This Thursday we are going to ‘low’.
Recently, Resident also referred to the management of the coronavirus pandemic in Puerto Rico.
Through his social networks he wrote on Saturday: “Government of Puerto Rico, the number of infections on the island are low but in the USA they are rising and I have seen an increase in tourists arriving on the island from there.”
The Governor of Puerto Rico, Wanda Vázquez, announced on Tuesday new rules for passengers landing on the island from abroad or the United States, such as a mandatory 14-day quarantine or a negative molecular test of COVID-19 in the previous 72 upon arrival on the island, from July 17.
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