omises, hopes and dreams are what the people were fed since the beginning. They have been told from the beginning that they have been treated fairly and that maybe someday. This is why people got mad when they heard the story of Seva. This is why I got mad when I heard it. This is why we celebrate when we best the United States in any athletic competition. No one ever wants to be looked over like a baby as if you couldn’t take care of yourself when you can completely think on your own. The only problem maybe that Puerto Rico is not a developed and totally modern place because the U.S. has never fully put into them. Maybe it’s time. 10/27/98 A hoax! That’s what it was! But how could this be?! It had to be true, but it wasn’t. Sitting stunned in class, I quickly searched for loopholes in the story. There had to be some there, and I wanted to find them. I was upset at myself because I allowed myself like everyone else in the class to be riled up and swept away by this fabulous story of Seva. Seva was a town that was supposedly wiped off the face of the earth when the Americans successfully took over Puerto Rico from the Spaniards. Any mention of it in the record books was also wiped out. The reason for this genocide was because the town of Seva had successfully repelled the first invasion of the U.S. forces a couple of weeks before they landed in Guanica. The U.S. military could not look weak and could not stand to have this blemish on their record. How could a bunch of peasant Puerto Ricans defeat the almighty U.S.? That was impossible and they needed to be erased from history. To add insult to injury, the U.S. built a naval station right on the site of the old town, and named it Ceiba. How did this come about? Who was responsible? To make a long story short, a young researcher did studies and learned of this cover-up. He begins to be followed and he suspects that something will happen to him soon, and ...
