Resident Puerto Rican interpreter (René Pérez) said on Tuesday through his Twitter account that to knock down statues of “colonizers and racists is not to erase history, it is to remake it” while announcing new music for July 2.
In the United States, a wave of destruction of statues of Christopher Columbus, Isabel La Católica, Fray Junípero Serra, Juan de Oñate or Ponce de León has been experienced in recent weeks.
As a result, on June 24, the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Arancha González, assured that Spain has expressed “in a discreet way her concern” about the destruction of these statues, a phenomenon that is due, in her opinion, to the ignorance of the shared history of Spain and the North American country.
“We have discreetly shown our concern, and also our desire to contribute to a better dissemination and understanding of this Hispanic legacy,” González said at a press conference.
The singer announced new music today through a short video on his social networks in which a woman appears licking her lips with the date of July 2 superimposed and underneath wrote “This Thursday we are going to ‘low”.
Recently, the Resident also asked the Government of Puerto Rico to know if it was possible to close the Luis Muñoz Marin International Airport to avoid increasing the number of infections of COVID-19 on the island.
Through his social networks he wrote on Saturday: “Government of Puerto Rico, the numbers of infections on the island are low but in the USA they are rising and I have seen an increase in tourists arriving on the island from there.”
“Just as they put ‘pa’ (for) the cockfights, could they put ‘pa’ to close the bastard airport? Thank you,” he added on Twitter.
The Governor of Puerto Rico, Wanda Vázquez, announced on Tuesday new rules for passengers landing on the island from abroad or the United States, such as a mandatory 14-day quarantine or a negative molecular test of COVID-19 in the previous 72 upon arrival on the island, from July 17.
Vázquez announced these measures in the face of the growing wave of coronavirus cases in the United States, which already registers more than two million infected and 126.00 deaths, and other countries in the region.
The Puerto Rico Department of Health did not report deaths on Tuesday from COVID-19, which so far has been 153 deaths; while 55 confirmed positive cases and 120 additional probable cases were registered, up to a total of 7,465.
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