filiberto ojeda rios

Filiberto Ojeda Rios & Puerto Rican Sovereignty by Louis Reyes Rivera puts Rios (literally "rivers" in Spanish) and the Puerto Rican independence movement in the larger context of historical struggles in the Caribbean and Latin America. Rivera starts off this piece by noting:

For a very long time I have had this problem with the way history is taught. Too many of our textbooks and professors teach history as if they were taking a droplet of water out of the river and presenting that droplet as the entire river itself. And they do so with little regard to those trillions of droplets that make a river possible. No one event, no one person, exists out of context. We are all part of some sense of continuum.

See also: the life and death of filiberto ojeda rios