Widespread sterilization operation led by the U.S. during the 1950s and 60s in Puerto Rico.

This documentary was referenced in this interview with Jose Vega by Garland Dixon.

from ZinnProject.org:

La Operación is a 1982 documentary that shows the widespread sterilization operation led by the U.S. during the 1950s and 60s in Puerto Rico. Ana María García directed the film which highlights how the U.S. pushed for increased female sterilization in Puerto Rico. She mixes in the documentary a blend of interviews with women from different socioeconomic and racial backgrounds but the interviews are not the only focus of her work; she also incorporates scenes showing a sterilization procedure in addition to other historical and contextual parts. 

Puerto Rican women and their families were promised success and stability after they underwent “la operación,” or sterilization. These efforts undercut the agency of women over their own bodies as they may have been drawn to the procedure and its false promises out of economic necessity/social pressure. The operation was marketed as a solution to poverty and many women thought that once their tubes were tied, they could be “untied.” This was not the case and they ended up losing their reproductive rights to give birth to more children. The film portrays these women as victims of this lack of knowledge and forced sterilization. 

La Operación [. . .] does a remarkable job of linking colonial policies and their impacts on the lives of Puerto Rican women, a perspective that is often left out of discussions about the U.S.-led sterilization. [Description from Journeys at Dartmouth essay.]

This background on this period of Puerto Rican history is good.  

War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony https://t.co/USnfVeCDOF via @amazon

— St. Michael, the Archangel (@aveng_angel) February 6, 2024

"All of you are executive editors of papers that broke the Pentagon, My Lai, and Watergate. Is this the same paper or not?"

Check out more of Jose Vega's great work. Check out his Twitter feed.

... "While Julian Assange rots in prison" ...
"And 'ya know what, Tucker Carlson ain't no Seymour Hersch but he did something you guys were too scared to do ... because you are all cowards" https://t.co/ppkaLRSr4J

— Maureen Schilder (@MaureenSchilde1) April 26, 2023

JOSE VEGA CALLS OUT CIA ASSET

Before Vega begins, I was thinking that the woman should have asked, "How many of you are CIA plants?"  

This was awesome! https://t.co/67yeUpdTXI

— Alex (Sasha) Krainer (@NakedHedgie) April 12, 2023

Jose Vega Confronts Hakeem Jeffries

This is what all antiwar activists should be doing - hounding these tools across the country and giving them no quarter https://t.co/wXLKF9BqEB

— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) February 23, 2023

AOC telling you she's anti-establishment, but she hasn't done anything anti-establishment.

     

She can't get two dozen people in her own district to come and listen to her. 

She's complete AstroTurf, absolute product of the algorithm and Manchurian donkey-mouthed whore, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez everybody.  Who I affectionately refer to as "Occasional Cortex."  This should pierce the veil.  Hardly.  Ha, ha.  

None of these trash bag Democrats have any support.  Nobody will come out to see them.  Two dozen people come out to this event and half of them are clapping as the audience is turning on her.

Jose Vega.  "Oh, my God, why are you not a white dude?  This is totally white supremacist argument."  She'll still call the dude and his argument, she'll call it an attack, white supremacy.  

Here's the woman telling you she's anti-establishment, but she hasn't done anything anti-establishment.

She's supposed to be the outsider, she's supposed to be the female young version of that communist Bernie Sanders, but she votes along party line. 

She's a D-OCon [i.e., NeoCon with a D in front of her name] at this point.  She wants more war.  She wants more weapons, more money, more funding in Ukraine than in her own district.

AOC was demolished by former supporters.  And they do a real smart thing.  So they have one dude yell, stand up and start screaming at her that she's a 

She's a communist whole, socialist dirtbag, sending lots of money to Ukraine fomenting a war in another country that we're not allied with and sending tons and tons and tons and tons of money to Ukrainian Nazis.  And, of course, the staff shows up and drags the dude out the building.  As the staff is dragging the dude out the building, the other dude stands up and starts screaming at her, completely eats up all of her security forces on the first dude. 

You cannot make this stuff up.

After confronting @AOC for funding Ukrainian Nazis in a viral video yesterday, Twitter suspended the account of @JosBtrigga for 12 hours. I can only imagine who is behind this… pic.twitter.com/7uYmVtxcpi

— Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 (@jacksonhinklle) October 13, 2022