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Young Puerto Ricans say that Bad Bunny, 31, has opened the world’s eyes to their generation’s challenges, and to the island’s fraught territorial relationship with the U.S. government. “He has been able to put us on the map,” said one university student in San Juan. trib.al/Ev0iF1u

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Statehood will only make it more difficult to live in the island. It'll be Hawaii 2.0 but with an average household income under $30k a year instead of the almost $100k like Hawaii. Actually, it's already kind of like that except that PR doesn't have Federal taxes aside from welfare contributions.

Independence is feasible if we manage to do so gradually starting with the creation of our own merchantile marine and nationalization of our 10+ ports. Under proper management, we could become similar to Singapore with the exception that PR can produce more agricultural and industrial goods.

Nah, the world has known since the beginning. It's only people in the US who don't know or have chosen to ignore the challenges PR faces. Democrats only prop us up when they want to threaten Republicans with giving us the Statehood that only 33% of the people in PR want.

The United Nations' Special Committee on Decolonization has annually reviewed Puerto Rico’s status since 1972, adopting resolutions reaffirming the inalienable right of the people of Puerto Rico to self-determination. This has occurred at least 42 times. Especially by other LATAM countries.

What's more annoying is that they treat those sham referendums as legitimate processes of self-determination When they're entirely controlled by a singular political party Has there only held during a general Election something that happens nowhere else on the planet

The same party that has wanted us to get on our knees and beg for statehood. They privatized and dismantled everything that was for the service of the public. Meanwhile, Washington sees all of this and laughs in our faces, now using us once again as a military base to launch unprovoked attacks.

After the U.S. took PR as a territory, a massive hurricane struck. The U.S. was ill prepared to support the roughly 975k inhabitants. Many unhoused, starving and dying from disease. Rations were eventually cut off and the decision was “thin the population “. Hawaiian sugar planters recruited over 5k

How much you wanna bet that the Trump administration is, right at this very moment, trying to put pressure on NBC to allow censorship of the halftime show if anything comes up that is objectionable to these thin skinned fascists? Would it be great if we had a free press that was on top of this.