Tuesday, February 14, 2012
I really see no reason to keep Puerto rico, and we still haven't made it a state. Do you think is better to keep Puerto Rico like this, should we give it its indepemdence, or do you think we should keep it like this and why?|||I think Puerto Rico should be a state. But as I'm not a Puerto Rican my opinion means little.|||to the guy below. puerto rico isnt in poverty. its actually beautiful. but if it was to become independent then it would become poverty since we rely on america. then again we also have tourism and many people come here so maby we would do good without america. who knows. i dont think we should become a state because then we would loose our culture and puerto rico would become americanized. English would become our major language eventually, our past would be gone :( like hawaii, only 0.1% of the population in hawaii speaks hawaiian. i think we should stay a common wealth. also the U.S. virgin islands and U.S. samoa has been part of the U.S. too, why isnt american askin them for independence, statehood, or stay a commonwealth ? only Philippeans were asked years ago and they choose to become independent. puerto rico is always asked. and always comes out. about 50% choose stay like it is(commonwealth) 49% choose statehood and 1% always choose independent. atleast 51% has to choose statehood in order to become a state.|||We cannot just MAKE Puerto Rico a state.
PR must hold a referendum (citizen vote) and, if the majority agree, petition Congress for Statehood.
PR then must, if it hasn't so already, adopt a Constitution and form of government in complaince with the US Constitution.
Then BOTH houses of Congress must pass a resolution acceptng PR as a state.
The President would have to sign.|||Give them independence. Right now they get American benefits and pay no income taxes like the rest of us.
yet they still burn American flags|||We should make it a state, that would pull it out of poverty|||Sorry, I won't answer your question. I am disgusted by the censorship of Yahoo Answers.
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Should criminals be in charge of correcting the wrong they inflicted?
ReplyDeletePuerto Ricans vote in elections every 4 years at an 80% level of participation. Puerto Rico has been a colony of the United States (US) government for the past 116 years. If the US government has the final say in what happens in Puerto Rico, what is the purpose of these elections? The purpose is to fool the world that Puerto Rico is a democracy.
The United Nations (UN) declared colonialism a crime against humanity in 1960. The UN has asked the US government 33 times to decolonize Puerto Rico immediately. The US government has refused. It says that Puerto Rico’s political relationship with the United States is none of the UN’s business. The US says that it is a domestic affair.
To appear that the US government wants to decolonize Puerto Rico, it promotes the use of plebiscites to determine what Puerto Ricans want. Doesn’t that sounds innocent and democratic? So what’s the problem?
To begin with, the international community already rendered its verdict and determined that colonialism is illegal. So to have a political status option in a plebiscite that favors maintaining Puerto Rico a colony of the United States is not permitted. To have a political status option of Puerto Rico becoming a state of the United States is also not permitted under international law. The problem goes back to the beginning of this article. In order to have free elections, the country must be free. So before these elections and plebiscite could be valid, Puerto Rico would have to first be an independent nation.
What people must realize is that Puerto Rico is a colony of the US because the US government wants it that way. That is why it has used terrorism to keep it that way. That is why it refuses to release the Puerto Rican political prisoner of 33 years Oscar López Rivera. That is also why it is ridiculous to believe that decolonization is a US internal matter in which the UN has no jurisdiction over. If we allow the US government to decolonize Puerto Rico, she will remain a colony of the United States forever!
José M López Sierra
www.TodosUnidosDescolonizarPR.blogspot.com