Luis Munoz Marin rose from being, in all estimations, one big failure to being a senator and later the governor of Puerto Rico. It was quite a feat, but what he did with his newly acquired power was another story. Marin declared martial law to quell the 1950 Nationalist uprisings, had two towns in Puerto Rico bombed by P47 Thunderbolt warplanes, used carpetas to spy on and convict innocent people, only guilty of not supporting him, and even enacted the 1948 Gag Law preventing Puerto Ricans from the ”crime” of possessing their flag. But why would the first Puerto Rican elected governor of Puerto Rico, who had once demanded Puerto Rico’s freedom, do this to his own people?

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