14, Puerto Ricans found they would, for the time being, remain members of a commonwealth within the United States and not of a soon-to-be 51st state or a fragile new Caribbean nation.Gov. Pedro Rossello, a pediatric surgeon and jogging enthusiast who ran hard on a statehood platform to...
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territorial status of the island; Rossello supports statehood for Puerto Rico. In May 2006, a political standoff led to a two-week-long budget crisis resulting in the partial shutdown of the government, including all public schools. More than 100,000 workers went without pay. On November 4...
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...
Trump’s view of Puerto Rico’s status has shifted since his 2016 presidential campaign. He pledged at the time tosupport the right of Puerto Ricans to determine their political statusfor themselves and make sure Congress followed through on the chosen path, including statehood. ...
It was the lowest level of participation in any election in Puerto Rico since 1967, according to Carlos Vargas Ramos, an associate with the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College in New York. He also said that even among voters who supported statehood,turnout was lower this year...
wise, we will be on equal footing with the states… it'll be more than offset by a couple of things. First, additional federal money is coming into Puerto Rico. And secondly, the inherent value of being a permanent member of the family, of having a permanent status such as statehood....
Puerto Rico - Political Status, Debate, Sovereignty: In 1952, after Puerto Rico was granted commonwealth status, the United States advised the United Nations (UN) that the island was a self-governing territory. However, dissatisfaction with the island’s
President Barack Obama and members of Congress have said that Puerto Ricans would have to make their preference clear for statehood in order to move forward. In March of last year, the President's Task Force on Puerto Rico's Statusrecommendedthat President Obama and Congress support "any fair...
Despite the low turnout, Governor Ricardo Rossello vowed to push for the territory to become the 51st US state after casting his vote for statehood. “We will go before international forums to defend the argument of the importance of Puerto Rico being the first Hispanic state in the United ...