The flag Bad Bunny waved during the Super Bowl halftime show wasn’t Puerto Rico’s official flag — and that was very much the point. It was the Puerto Rican independence flag, a symbol rooted in the island’s revolutionary past and its long fight for self-determination. For decades, that flag represented resistance to colonial rule — so much so that it was once illegal to even own one. Under U.S. law in the mid-20th century, displaying it could get you arrested, fined, or imprisoned. That history