Puerto Rico’s Republican Party held a district assembly and awarded former President Donald Trump all 23 of their national delegates.
Meanwhile, Puerto Rico’s young men and women continue to serve in the U.S. armed forces with distinction. Puerto Ricans are voting for statehood with their feet, moving to the 50 states in record numbers, where they automatically receive the full panoply of democratic rights that are the ...
Is Puerto Rico Statehood Really a Democratic Ploy? December 11, 2024 In political circles, 2024 may be best remembered for the election that pulled back the curtain on the perception that there’s a monolithic Puerto Rican…Read More » ...
The Puerto Rico Status Act makes it clear that under the statehood option “U.S. citizenship of those born in Puerto Rico isrecognized, protected, and securedunder the U.S. Constitution in the same way such citizenship is for all U.S. citizens born in the other States.” The other two...
or U.S. House delegate. Puerto Rico’s political status has long been a thorny issue due to the ambiguities of its pseudo-colonial territory status. For the 76 years the current political system has been in place, the main political divide on the island was whether to seek statehood o...
According to credit analyst Richard Larkin, if statehood for the state is passed then bonds would not be exempted from state and local taxes which will increase the state's borrowing costs. It further states that it has been found in a survey that majority of residents of Puerto Rico are ...
The Puerto Rico Status Act would create and fund a process by which residents of the island would take a binding vote to determine the island's status. May 23, 2022 Is statehood the answer to Puerto Rico's problems? The pro-statehood movement has taken on new urgency – but it's not...
“For Puerto Rico, the only means for greater political participation in the national political process beyond what we already have is through statehood,” he says via email. The council “is encouraged that the RNC is also preparing for the likelihood that Puerto Rico will become a state by...
Tens of thousands of customers are still without power across Puerto Rico, a week after Ernesto swiped the U.S. territory as a tropical storm.
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