More than 150 students practicing civil disobedience have been arrested thus far in Puerto Rico and riot police on Thursday escalated violent repression of a university strike with brutal arrests and rubber bullets during a sit-in demonstration at the capitol building. As President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for governmental prudence during a historic revolt in Egypt, the most basic free speech rights are under attack with apparent impunity in this U.S. territory of nearly four million U.S. citizens still grappling with a century-old colonial relationship with the United States.
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