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Puerto Rico Needs Independence, Not Statehood

Puerto Rico Needs Independence, Not Statehood
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123 Years Later, the Unfinished Business of Self-Determination for Puerto Ricans - Union of Concerned Scientists


123 Years Later, the Unfinished Business of Self-Determination for Puerto Ricans
123 Years Later, the Unfinished Business of Self-Determination for Puerto Ricans
Juan Declet-Barreto,
Climate Vulnerability Social Scientist | March 10, 2021, 11:00 am EDT
“[E]ven were Puerto Rico given each and every one of the freedoms, and the powers that such [freedom] begets, the development of such a system will be thwarted because the Union would have violated the principle upon which that system rests, which absolutely requires the will of the people to organize representative institutions.”
 
One of the prized possessions I brought with me to the United States is a Puerto Rican flag. Not a flimsy, cheaply-made flag on a plastic straw-like stand, the kind that you get on your way to a rally and wave around. It’s a cloth flag, water-stained and frayed by time around the edges of its white and red st ....

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