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Both conservative and liberal media get it wrong on Puerto Rico status again and again. For example, mixing apples and oranges by linking territorial status issues and the status of the District of Columbia

November 20, 2007

The issues of political status, federal governence, and voting rights for Americans in the U.S. territories and residents of D.C. involve very different political, historical and constitutional questions.   Since discussion of these issues by some in the media has overlapped in ways that are confusing, some clarification is needed: 
 Solving the problem of representation in Congress for U.S. […]

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Americans from Puerto Rico are part of this nation’s most distinguished military traditions. Failure to redeem the promise of their citizenship through full participation in our democratic tradition is a moral debt of our country that has been owing for decades, and is now 60 years PAST DUE!

November 19, 2007

NO GREATER LOVE OF COUNTRY THAN THIS:   THE PATRIOTISM OF AMERICANS FROM PUERTO RICO  “It is the ultimate act of patriotism to love your country even when that love is not reciprocated.”   Sen. Carl Levin, honoring Tuskegee Airmen, April 25, 2007 Fortunately, enough Americans answer the call to defend our nation that the rest of us […]

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The Failure of former Governor Rafael Hernandez Colon’s Vision of a Nation-Within-A-Nation Status for Puerto Rico

November 16, 2007

Part I:         The ideology of “commonwealth” versus the reality of territorial status 
Following release of the Report by the President’s Task Force on Puerto Rico’s Status in December of 2005, former Governor and Popular Democratic Party President Rafael Hernandez Colon began a one-man propaganda campaign to discredit the White House report.   In shrill, vitriolic and bitter words at […]

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