No empire or its servants have ever broken those bonds between Cuba and Puerto Rico
En el cruce de la historia compartida y la geopolítica contemporánea, la gobernadora de Puerto Rico Jenniffer González enfrenta una acusación grave: que sus palabras y acciones en torno a las bases militares y Cuba representan no una postura política ordinaria, sino una complicidad con lo que sus críticos llaman genocidio. El Comité de Solidaridad con Cuba, voz de más de dos mil brigadistas con décadas de vínculos con la isla, invoca una amistad centenaria entre dos pueblos que han resistido imperios juntos, y advierte que ningún cargo gubernamental puede borrar esa memoria. En el fondo, la disputa no es solo sobre Cuba: es sobre qué significa gobernar un pueblo colonizado y a quién, en última instancia, se le debe lealtad.
- La dirigente Milagros Rivera lanzó una acusación sin rodeos: las declaraciones de la gobernadora González en un podcast televisivo equivalen a celebrar una posible invasión militar de Cuba, lo que el Comité califica abiertamente de genocidio.
- La reactivación de bases militares en suelo puertorriqueño bajo la administración González se convierte en el detonante de una crisis de legitimidad moral, no solo de un debate sobre política exterior.
- El Comité invoca más de un siglo de solidaridad entre Cuba y Puerto Rico como un escudo simbólico y político, recordando que esos lazos han sobrevivido a imperios y a sus servidores locales.
- Rivera advierte con claridad: si Estados Unidos ataca militariamente a Cuba, no habrá paz en Puerto Rico, y la gobernadora —elegida con votos minoritarios— cargará con la responsabilidad histórica y política de lo que ocurra.
- La tensión no se resuelve en las calles sino en el terreno de la memoria y la moral: dos visiones irreconciliables de qué significa ser puertorriqueño en un mundo donde el poder imperial sigue dictando las reglas.
Un viernes por la mañana en San Juan, Milagros Rivera, presidenta del Comité de Solidaridad con Cuba, se plantó ante los medios con una acusación que no admitía matices: la gobernadora Jenniffer González había hecho declaraciones de carácter genocida. El detonante fueron unas palabras de González en el Molusco TV Podcast, en las que —según el Comité— expresó satisfacción por la reactivación de bases militares en Puerto Rico y abrió la puerta a celebrar una posible acción militar estadounidense contra Cuba.
Para Rivera, representante de una organización con más de dos mil brigadistas que han viajado a Cuba desde 1991, esto no era política ordinaria. Era una traición revestida de poder. Describió a González como alguien que busca protagonismo para ocultar sus fracasos de gobierno, y como una servidora de los intereses imperiales de Washington que ha normalizado la militarización de su propio territorio.
Pero el discurso de Rivera no se quedó en la denuncia. Invocó algo más profundo: la amistad centenaria entre Cuba y Puerto Rico, presente en todos los sectores de la sociedad, forjada a lo largo de generaciones y resistente a cualquier presión imperial. Esos lazos, insistió, son inquebrantables.
La advertencia final fue política y moral a la vez: si Estados Unidos ataca Cuba, no habrá tranquilidad en Puerto Rico, y González —gobernadora elegida con una minoría de votos— deberá responder ante la historia por las consecuencias. Mientras el bloqueo contra Cuba se intensifica y las bases militares cobran nueva vida, el Comité dejó claro de qué lado se encuentra: no con el poder, sino con la isla vecina y con la memoria de un pueblo que no olvida.
San Juan woke to sharp words on a Friday. Milagros Rivera, who leads the Cuba Solidarity Committee, stood before reporters with a single phrase burning in her mouth: the governor of Puerto Rico, Jenniffer González, had made statements that were genocidal.
The accusation came after González spoke on the Molusco TV Podcast, remarks that Rivera and her organization—which counts more than two thousand brigadistas among those who have traveled to Cuba since 1991—could not let pass. The governor, they said, had expressed joy at the reactivation of military bases on Puerto Rican soil under her administration. She had, in their reading, celebrated the possibility of U.S. military action against Cuba itself. For Rivera, this was not mere politics. It was a betrayal dressed in power.
Rivera's language was direct and unsparing. She characterized González as seeking a moment of attention to distract from her own failed governance, as a servant of American imperial interests who had grown comfortable with the militarization of her own island. The governor, Rivera said, was announcing with gladness a potential invasion of Cuba—and in doing so, she had made herself part of a criminal campaign against the Cuban people. The words hung in the air: this was not disagreement. This was collaboration with an aggressor.
But Rivera's statement carried another current beneath it. She invoked something older than current politics, something that transcended the divisions of the moment. The friendship between Cuba and Puerto Rico, she said, was more than a century old. It lived in every sector of society. It had survived empires and their servants. No force, she insisted, had ever managed to break those bonds. They were unbreakable.
There was a warning embedded in her words, too—one directed at a governor who had won office with what Rivera called a minority vote. If the United States attacked Cuba militarily, there would be no peace in Puerto Rico. González would bear responsibility for what followed. The threat was not violent; it was political and moral. It was the weight of history, of solidarity, of a people who remembered where they came from and who their true neighbors were.
The blockade against Cuba had intensified. The military bases hummed with new activity. And in Puerto Rico, a governor had chosen a side. The Solidarity Committee had chosen theirs—not with power, but with the island ninety miles away, with the ties that no administration, no matter how eager to please Washington, could sever.
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The governor is seeking attention to distract from her failed administration while serving as a servant of American imperial interests— Milagros Rivera, president of the Cuba Solidarity Committee
If the United States attacks Cuba militarily, there will be no peace in Puerto Rico, and the governor will bear responsibility for what follows— Milagros Rivera
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Why did Rivera use the word genocidal specifically? That's a very particular accusation.
Because she sees the military buildup and potential invasion not as isolated policy, but as part of a campaign to destroy a nation and its people. For her, González celebrating the bases isn't just politics—it's participation in that destruction.
But González won an election. Doesn't that give her a mandate?
Rivera would say no—she won with a minority vote. And more than that, Rivera believes the Puerto Rican people, when you listen to them across sectors, actually oppose militarization. The election result doesn't reflect the deeper will of the island.
What's the significance of mentioning the two thousand brigadistas since 1991?
It's establishing legitimacy and continuity. These aren't abstract ideologues—they're Puerto Ricans who have actually gone to Cuba, seen it, built relationships there. They're saying: we know what we're talking about. This solidarity is real and lived.
Is Rivera threatening the governor?
Not with violence. She's saying that if the U.S. attacks Cuba, Puerto Rico will suffer the consequences, and González will be held responsible. It's a political and moral warning—that actions have costs, and history remembers who stood where.
Why emphasize that the Cuba-Puerto Rico bond is "unbreakable"?
Because it's the counternarrative to what González represents. González is saying: align with the empire. Rivera is saying: that bond is deeper than any government, any blockade, any military base. It cannot be broken.