The United Nations committee on ‘decolonization’ Monday unanimously called upon the United States for a process to replace Puerto Rico’s territory status with U.S. statehood… Read More »UN Committee Notes Plebiscite Results, Calls for Nationhood or Statehood Action
Almost 63,000 jobs will have to be created in Puerto Rico over the next 13 months for Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla to fulfill his pledge… Read More »63,000 More Jobs Needed to Meet Gov’s 50,000 More Jobs Pledge
Puerto Rico Report has obtained copies of letters that Governor Garcia Padilla has sent Members of Congress giving results of Puerto Rico’s political status plebiscite… Read More »Governor Writes Misleading Letter on Plebiscite to Congress Members
Lobbyists for Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla and his “commonwealth” party are now suggesting to Federal officials that a new “commonwealth status” was the real victor… Read More »Commonwealthers Now Claim New ‘Commonwealth Status’ Won Plebiscite
English only in government in a State of Puerto Rico? Not in the U.S. Senate. Last week, a senator, Tim Kaine (D-Virginia), delivered a major… Read More »No English Only in the U.S. Senate … or in a State of Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi’s bill on statehood for the territory has won more endorsements on U.S. House of Representatives Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s… Read More »Statehood Bill Gets Most Public Votes on U.S. House Website on All House Bills
The current use of Puerto Rico to avoid billions of dollars in Federal taxes by big businesses based in the States was raised in a… Read More »Hearing Notes How Companies Used Territory to Avoid Billions in Taxes
The Democratic majority U.S. Senate this week passed a bill that would deny millions of low-income Puerto Ricans some $2.2 billion in food over the next five years that would be provided to their fellow Americans in the States.
The discrimination against Puerto Rico in the agriculture and nutrition programs reauthorization bill was made possible by the islands’ territory status, sometimes misleadingly called “commonwealth.”Read More »Puerto Rico’s Status to Cost Needy $2.2 Billion in Federal Food Funds
The U.S. Senate committee responsible for the status of the U.S. territories is delaying its hearing on Puerto Rico’s political status plebiscite last November. The… Read More »Senate Plebiscite Hearing Delayed
