Puerto Rican Revolutionary Nationalism

Abstract

The origin of the Puerto Rican nationalist revolutionary organizations in 1959 was characterized by the emergence of mass organizations supported by armed clandestine organizations that attacked colonial power in the islands and the United States. Among these were the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (Armed Forces of National Liberation—FALN) and the Ejército Popular Boricua-Macheteros (Boricua Popular Army—Macheteros—EPB-M). As in the cases of other colonized nations, revolutionary nationalism served as the spearhead for the anti-imperialist social movement. Puerto Rican organizations adjusted their maneuvers and objectives to the immediate conditions and facilitated the full development of the struggle for national liberation in the Puerto Rican communities settled in the United States.