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Alejandro Garcia Padilla

Garcia Padilla and “Commonwealth as we know it”

Puerto Rican Governor-Elect Alejandro Garcia Padilla has written a letter to President Obama discounting the results of Puerto Rico’s recent plebiscite in which 54% of the voters answered “no” when asked whether “Puerto Rico should continue to have its present form of territorial status,” and over 60% of the voters selected statehood as their preferred status option.

The reasons given by the governor-elect as to why he rejects the plebiscite vote are worth looking into.Read More »Garcia Padilla and “Commonwealth as we know it”