The National Sovereign State of Borinken (NSSB) has asked to be admitted as a member state of the United Nations (UN). The NSSB has met all of the requirements to be admitted to the UN. The UN has said nothing so far. Photo: Overseas Territories Review

The United States government took possession of our island illegally. Borinken has never surrendered her sovereignty either to Spain or the United States. The United States government owns Borinken by virtue of force, and never by international law.

This government has ignored 34 UN resolutions asking it to immediately decolonise Puerto Rico. It has also kept incarcerated illegally our political prisoner Oscar López Rivera for fighting against colonialism, which he has a right to do. 

If the 8 million Puerto Ricans were to support the admission of the NSSB to the UN, the US government would have a crisis to deal with. The US government has always been able to divide us during these 117 years to keep us colonised. For the first time, this government would be completely naked before the UN and the world! The international pressure would be so overwhelming that the US government would have to decolonise us without wanting to.

The provisional government of NSSB was constituted to fulfill the requirements to be admitted to the UN. As soon as we get decolonised by international law, we will have elections, so that we could choose the people who will represent us in our republic. 

All those who want decolonisation for Borinken should support the NSSB's admission to the UN. If we don’t all unite to get what we all want, and continue to try to get it separately, we will be playing into the hands of the US government to maintain us as its colony forever!

NB: Borinken is the indigenous name of the island of Puerto Rico given it by the Arawak Indians.