In 2012, Puerto Rico residents voted in favor of changing the island’s current territorial status. When asked what they’d like to replace territorial status with, statehood was the clear winner, securing 50 percent more votes than the second-place choice of free association. In a distant third was independent status for the island. Again in 2017, the U.S. citizens of Puerto Rico took to the polls, giving statehood a landslide victory.
The message is clear: the U.S. citizens of Puerto Rico want statehood. Continue Reading>>
