PIP denuncia farsa plebiscitaria del gobierno

Comunicado de prensa
San Juan, Puerto Rico - 10 de agosto de 2010

Manuel Rodríguez Orellana, Secretario de Relaciones con Norteamérica del Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño

El Secretario de Relaciones con Norteamérica del Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño, Manuel Rodríguez Orellana, denunció las más recientes declaraciones del comisionado residente, Pedro PIerluisi, como “una farsa, una cortina de humo para esconder su complicidad con el régimen colonial de Estados Unidos sobre Puerto Rico”.

Rodríguez Orellana reiteró hoy que, “el PIP no colaborará con los planes del gobierno Fortuño-Pierluisi para llevar a cabo un plebiscito irracional y no conducente a la verdadera descolonización de Puerto Rico.”

El PIP ha propuesto exigirle al gobierno de EEUU que se comprometa con la propuesta de descolonización basada en el Derecho internacional que sometan los puertorriqueños, sea mediante una Asamblea Constitucional de Estatus, que el PIP favorece, o mediante otro método seleccionado democráticamente.

“El maltrecho, malogrado y natimuerto proyecto Pierluisi, cuyo fracaso le vaticinamos al propio comisionado residente, plantea la opción anexionista, que el liderato del PNP sabe es inaceptable para Estados Unidos,” declaró el también ex senador del PIP.

“Peor aún,” añadió, “ofrece la opción del actual estatus dependiente y subordinado dos veces, aun después de rechazado por el pueblo” enfatizó el dirigente independentista.

“Ni Fortuño ni Pierluisi tienen la menor intención de descolonizar y conducir al país hacia un régimen de libertad, plenamente democrático,” concluyó Rodríguez Orellana.

PIP denounces NPP plebiscite as a farce

Press release
San Juan, Puerto Rico - August 10, 2010

The Puerto Rican Independence Party Secretary for North American Relations, Manuel Rodríguez Orellana, called resident commissioner Pedro Pierluisi’s statement regarding a status referendum “a farce, a smoke screen to hide his complicity with the United States colonial regime over Puerto Rico.”

Rodríguez Orellana reiterated the PIP’s refusal to “collaborate with the Fortuño-Pierluisi plan to hold an irrational plebiscite, not conducive to Puerto Rico’s decolonization.”

The PIP has proposed a referéndum demanding that the U.S. government commit to respond to a decolonization petition based on the options recognized by international law. According to the PIP proposal, Puerto Rico would also vote to choose the method by which such demand would be presented. “We favor a constitutional assembly on status as the most fair and democratic way to go about it; but others may propose a different method,” according to the former PIP senator.

“We warned the resident commissioner that his proposed bill [HR 2499] was ‘a dead man walking’ and would never make it through the legislative process. It contains the poison pill of a statehood option that he knows is unacceptable to the U.S. government,” said Rodríguez Orellana.

“Moreover,” he added, “it offers the present undemocratic status as an option twice, even if the people had previously rejected it. I don’t know how he could accept this travesty, as amended by the U.S. House of Representatives; how he could defend it before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources; or how he dares to propose it now to the people of Puerto Rico. It makes no sense,” according to the PIP oficial.

“Neither Fortuño nor Pierluisi have the intention to decolonize and lead Puerto Rico towards a truly free and fully democratic system,” he explained.