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ASOperation Bootstrap.
After WWII, Puerto Rico was sold a dream of “modernization.”
But the reality? Factories replaced farms, U.S. corporations took the profits, and Puerto Ricans were pushed into poverty and mass migration.
It wasn’t uplift.
It was displacement, wrapped in the language of progress.
🎥 The program that turned Puerto Rico into a testing ground for U.S. capitalism.
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