The entire island of Puerto Rico, with its three million plus U.S. citizen residents, is represented by just one person in Congress: Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon, the… Read More »Stateside Puerto Ricans Represented Most Heavily in FL, NY, MA, CT and PA
On October 4th, cell phones across the nation – including those in Puerto Rico – squawked in a test of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s… Read More »National Emergency Alert Included Puerto Rico
There’s always been a strain of support for Puerto Rican independence, going back to the time when Puerto Rico was a Spanish colony. In 1950,… Read More »Independence Movements around the World
As Puerto Rico continues to struggle to end its status as a U.S. territory – or colony- it is instructive to look at what has… Read More »Former Colonies around the World
The South China Morning Post is reporting that “a deadline of strategic importance for Washington passed without a breakthrough on Saturday night” when the Compact… Read More »In FAS, U.S. Financial Help Expires But Defense Rights Continue
Several dozen states used to be territories. All of them had to fight for statehood. Michigan’s fight was more literal than most. Congress would not… Read More »Anti-statehood Arguments against Michigan
U.S. citizenship for Puerto Ricans became a hot topic in Washington in 1909, eight years before Congress passed a law granting it. That year, the… Read More »U.S. Citizenship Is Prized in Puerto Rico
In debates over possible changes to the relationship between Puerto Rico and the United States, one issue always seems to rise to the top: the… Read More »Constitutional Experts: U.S. Citizenship in Puerto Rico Guaranteed Only With Statehood
In a recent article in Foreign Policy in Focus (FPIF), author Edward Hunt reports that “U.S. officials are laying claim to the large oceanic area… Read More »U.S. Military Authority in the Freely Associated States
