Mr. Torres’ column ignores that support for Puerto Rico statehood is as weak as ever and has been reinforced by unrealistic lies about what it would mean, oppression of freedom fighters and corruption. It incorrectly interprets data on plebiscites and dismisses sovereign alternatives. It ignores our character as an occupied nation; how the US would become a multinational state; and how statehood is not an economic plan for Puerto Rico. We do not want to become another oppressed US minority. Imposed US Citizenship was never meant to be an extension of equality. Decolonization is not the absorption of a people by its colonial power. His column is a continuation of the long history of erasure of Puerto Rican history. It is at best ignorant, at worst ethnocentric. Torres should publicly recant.