Eduardo Bhatia Quotes
I don't have a problem with a board that advises, that supervises, one with which we can have a discussion. But we will never accept a board that has control over Puerto Rico's affairs.
Coto, Danica. "US territory's governor to US: Pass Puerto Rico debt bill." Associated Press, 14 Apr. 2016.
In 1937 the U. S. Treasury Department commissioned a pair of large murals to decorate the lobby or the Ariel Rios Federal Building in Washington DC. On the mural was depicted a U. S. Mail Service from Alaska to Puerto Rico. It showed four Puerto Rican women reading a letter in the Inuit dialect presumably delivered from Alaska. The authorities loved the mural until they discovered the translation of the Inuit letter. This was a direct reference to the Puerto Rican Nationalist Independence Movement. That year 18 Puerto Rican Nationalists were killed and over 100 wounded when police fired into a crowd of demonstrators on March 21. Kent, a famous artist, planted a newspaper story with the translation and soon media all over the company were drawing attention to the Puerto Rican movement, just as Kent had intended.
5th Earl of Rosebery
This model has been used by many counties even into the 21st century to get the benefits of foreign know how and capital while preventing the foreign businesses to control parts of the nation and the economy. In this case, Cixi had allowed a telegraph company and two modern coal mining areas. The system works well provided the foreign interests do not bribe the native administrators who are appointed to oversee the activity. It takes two for bribery and other forms of corruption to work and unfortunately, Cixi ruled a culture where corruption, petty and large, was pervasive and traditional.
Eduardo Bhatia Gautier is a puertorican attorney and politician. Bhatia is a former 15th President of the Senate of Puerto Rico and executive director of the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration.
