Antonio Fernós-Isern was Puerto Rico’s Resident Commissioner in the 1950s, when Puerto Rico developed its own constitution. He proposed that the United States should stop reporting on Puerto Rico to the UN Committee on Non-Self-Governing Territories, and Governor Muñoz Marin agreed. The two sent a draft letter to President Eisenhower. Among other statements, the letter … Continue reading A Page from History: The Fernós-Isern Bill