At the recent Puerto Rico Equality and Statehood Summit held in Washington D.C., Governor Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon reiterated her commitment to statehood for Puerto Rico, emphasized… Read More »Puerto Rico Governors Call for Statehood
Of the five U.S. territories, only two use the word “commonwealth” in their titles: the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the Commonwealth of the Northern… Read More »Comparing Puerto Rico with the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
Guam is, like Puerto Rico, a territory of the United States. Territories can remain in that status indefinitely, but they can also become U.S. states or… Read More »Guam Plans Another Plebiscite
Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory. A territory can become either a state or a nation, so being a territory is not considered to be… Read More »Puerto Rico’s Plebiscite History – Confusion over “Commonwealth”
U.S. Representatives Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) and Darren Soto (D-FL) have introduced the Puerto Rican People’s Power Restoration Act of 2026. This bill seeks to disband… Read More »Bill to End PROMESA Board Introduced in Congress
The Alaskan independence movement has been more successful, in some ways, than other independence movements among the fifty states. Unlike California and Texas, as well… Read More »The Rise and Fall of the Alaskan Independence Party
Although Puerto Rico has a small independence movement, several states have larger independence movements than Puerto Rico. California is one. Like Texas, California was briefly… Read More »Independence Movements: Calexit
Palestine, Tibet, and Catalonia may be the best-known independence movements in the world right now, but there are some independence movements going on here in… Read More »Independence Movements: Texit
The Puerto Rican population in the United States can be divided into people living in Puerto Rico and those living in one of the states.… Read More »Puerto Rican Population in the United States
