Around 1872 in the city of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in a Masonic lodge of this city, a Puerto Rican intellectual gave the following speech: “Let us unite, let us love each other, let us all form one people, a people of true Masons. And then we will be able to raise a temple on such solid foundations that all the forces of the Saxon and Spanish races combined will not be able to shake it; a temple that we will dedicate to independence and on whose facade we will engrave this imperishable inscription: ‘As enduring as the homeland, the Antilles for the Antilleans’.” This is the story of a dream. A…