"I could only convince them that the purpose of the American invasion is to redeem the naturals from the country of the ignominious yoke of the Spanish tyrant, and not to conquer them with the sword and enslave them again under another flag and another master, as the Spaniards make them believe..." [41]
"[Puerto Rican physician and patriot who was exiled to NY for his separatist ideas (before the American invasion) and served as a spy for the U.S. by giving the U.S. information on how to invade PR as the U.S. promised that it would help PR to be free from Spain, and if not, to be a state of the United States.]" [41]