SAN JUAN, October 18, 2025 (EFE). Hundreds of Puerto Ricans They protested today Saturday in front of the Tribunal Federalin Saint Johnas part of the “No King’s” demonstrationswhich were carried out throughout USAto denounce the “authoritarian, racist, dictatorial policies and abuses of power” of the president of the United States, Donald Trump.
“A Puerto Rico as United States colony We are tremendously impacted by the neo-fascist policies, violent policies, policies of death that the government of Donald Trump“, he assured Mari Mari Narváezdirector and founder of the non-profit organization “Kilometer 0”.
Cities with “No King’s” protests
With this protest, which began at 16:00 local time (20:00 GMT), Puerto Rico joined the thousands of people who took to the streets today, Saturday, in cities all over USAlike New York, Washington y Miamito protest against what they consider a Trump authoritarianism.
“Our people have fought for decades against remilitarization of this archipelago and now they are using us again as aggression platformagainst a country that has done nothing to us and is our neighbor in the Caribbean,” he added. the activist in reference to the persecution suffered by Dominican and Haitian migrants at the hands of federal authorities.
With anti-fascist and anti-racist posters, and shouts of “No human being is illegal!”, “Let the federal government go away, no one is illegal here!”“What the people need is anti-racist consciousness!” and “The working class migrates in search of improvement!”, the protesters They supported the migrant community of the Caribbean archipelago.
“No King’s” Day
“We join the day of ‘no more kings’ in USAbut with its own demands; It seems to us that the day in the United States is very important protesting against the authoritarian policies of the government of Donald Trumpbut in Puerto Rico “We have some additional demands,” he said. Manuel Rodriguezspokesperson for the organization Socialist Democracy.
Rodríguez He specified that migrants come to the archipelago to “build the country and are an integral part” of society.
For this reason, the complicity of the government of Puerto Rico with federal authorities, allowing “deport and kidnap” immigrants that they have not committed “any crime.”
From his perspective, “there is an extraordinary potential for mobilization against remilitarization of Puerto Rico” why the people of Puerto Rico “he already has experience in taking out the United States Navy” of its territory.
They took out the Navy in 2023
The United States Navy use Vieques and part of Snake as shooting range until May 2003 when they were expelled after several massive days of citizen protestss in the island-municipalities. To date, the cleanup of unexploded ordnance remains on both islands is not yet complete.
The organizations that held the demonstration They are ACLU Puerto Rico, Amnesty International Puerto Rico, Socialist Democracy, Dominican Human Rights Committee, the College of Physicians-Surgeons of Puerto Rico, Casa Pueblo, Frente Amplio de Acción Social and the College of Lawyers of Puerto Rico, among others.
The political status of Puerto Rico as Commonwealth to the USAestablished in 1952, grants the archipelago a certain degree of autonomy and a local government and parliament, but leaves it under the control of Washington areas such as defense, borders and diplomatic relations.
They were also called protests in other notable cities such as Atlanta, Boston, Honolulu, Houston, Nashville, Nueva Orleans, San Diego o San Francisco.
In solidarity with the call, today Saturday there were also “No King’s” protests in European capitals such as Berlin, Paris and Rome.