Alana Casanova-Burgess

Who are our heroes?

You know, like, who are we honoring?

Let's put the statue in a warehouse for a while until we decide what to do with it.

A lot of places said, no, we're not putting that back up.

It doesn't represent our values anymore.

Other places have left the pedestals just blank and empty, you know, which forces a conversation about what used to be there and what isn't there now and maybe what should be there.

Maybe there aren't answers to that question necessarily, but it forces people at the very least to reflect on it.

That clearly wasn't happening here.

There just wasn't going to be time to discuss what this particular statue says about Puerto Rican-ness, or Puerto Rico.

Adrián got there just after it had been reinstalled, and there were protesters heckling and pointing out that, yes, the statue was most definitely crooked.

and he spoke with the Director of Public Works for San Juan, Raúl García.

I asked him, is that, did you put it up the way it was before?

People are saying it looks a little crooked.

I was curious to know whether he'd had the conversation with anybody about whether that was the right decision to make, given what was happening in other places where these sorts of statues had been toppled.

Of course we were going to put it back up.

It's not a political situation.

It's just simply that the administration decided to put it back up.

Did he talk about this?

He said no.

Without hesitation, like, of course not.