"from 2009 to 2011, and was made official with a "welcome card" issued by prominent "soberanistas" Carmen Yulín Cruz, Luis Vega Ramos and Carlos "Charlie" Hernández.While performing in character, Alicea became more vocal to this belief following February 2010, when an ailing William Miranda Marín, one of the most outspoken "soberanistas" in the history of the PPD, pronounced a speech urging all Puerto Ricans to look beyond personal interests to find the convergence needed to push Puerto Rico into the future.