Hello everyone. This is Ben Norton with the Grey Zone, and this is a special interview

about an important political event that's coming up on November 3rd.

Of course, everyone around the world is talking about the U.S. presidential election

that's coming up on that same date between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

And we at the Gray Zone have been reporting from Bolivia on the history coming up on that same date between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

And we at the Gray Zone have been reporting from Bolivia on the historic landslide election victory there of the movement towards socialism party of Evo Morales.

But there's another issue that's getting very little attention, but I also think is very

important, and that is a referendum in Puerto Rico.

Puerto Rico is, of course, a U.S. colony. It has been a U.S. colony since the Spanish-American

War of 1898, and yet a lot of people, including myself, I don't think we focus enough

on the struggle in Puerto Rico, including, you know, we at the gray zone, we do a lot

of reporting on Latin America and on U.S. imperialism in Latin America, focusing on Bolivia,

Venezuela, Nicaragua, and other countries.

But right, you know, in the United States, there is a colony in Latin America, Puerto Rico,

in which people do not have the same rights as other members, other citizens of

the continental United States, in which their political rights are denied, and in which,

as we'll talk about in this interview, they have really no economic rights.

Their economy is controlled by the U.S. federal government through an unelected economic control

board.

So to discuss the upcoming election and referendum on November 3rd, we are joined by André

Gonzales Berdesia.

He is an activist and a politician with the Puerto Rican Independence Party, and in fact,

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