a quick look into the history of flags in Puerto Rico reveals a much more complicated story. The flag is not only a symbol of affirmation, “it is used as a symbol of resistance to colonialism ...

In Puerto Rico, solidarity with the cause ... It's a lot of parallelisms with the Palestinians, whose flags were also banned and had to turn to other symbols like watermelons as, like, symbols ...

In 1948, the Puerto Rican Senate passed what became known as the Gag Law (or “Ley de Mordaza”) which criminalized the ownership and display of the Puerto Rican flag, writing pro-independence ...

this year’s Miss Puerto Rico of Greater New Haven, Alanna Herbert, stepped to the microphone and filled the Green with her voice as she sang the national anthem. Behind her was the Puerto Rican flag, ...