{"id":1152,"date":"2020-12-06T00:58:02","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T00:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/06\/juan-gonzalez-remembers-nycs-only-black-mayor-david-dinkins-vieques-activist-carlos-taso-zenon-4\/"},"modified":"2020-12-06T00:58:02","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T00:58:02","slug":"juan-gonzalez-remembers-nycs-only-black-mayor-david-dinkins-vieques-activist-carlos-taso-zenon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/06\/juan-gonzalez-remembers-nycs-only-black-mayor-david-dinkins-vieques-activist-carlos-taso-zenon\/","title":{"rendered":"Juan Gonz\u00e1lez Remembers NYC\u2019s Only Black Mayor David Dinkins & Vieques Activist Carlos \u201cTaso\u201d Zen\u00f3n"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We speak with Democracy Now! co-host Juan Gonz\u00e1lez about the deaths of two leading figures he reported on: New York City Mayor David Dinkins and beloved Puerto Rican social leader Carlos “Taso” Zen\u00f3n. “Most people forget [Dinkins] was a Democratic Socialist before democratic socialism was in vogue,” notes Gonz\u00e1lez. He also recalls how Dinkins backed the movement against apartheid in South Africa, ordering the city to divest its pension fund from companies doing business there, and brought Nelson Mandela to the city right after he was freed. Gonz\u00e1lez also recalls how Zen\u00f3n was a longtime activist who for decades led the fight against the U.S. Navy’s occupation of the island of Vieques, his hometown, where the U.S. government tested weapons and held military training exercises. <\/p>\n

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