Luis Gutiérrez: “Representatives Nydia Velazquez and Alexandria Cortez are the embodiment of Lola Rodriguez de Tio and Mariana Bracetti.”

Puerto Rico is a nation, a colonized nation, but a nation nonetheless.

Statehood means complete protection of the U.S. Constitution to more than 3 million Americans.

Statehood is what gives it to us while they diminish and undermine the rights of the LGBTQ community in Puerto Rico.

To turn around and tell voters to go back to the drawing board and re-define multiple other options which the majority has rejected three times in the last eight years in favor of statehood, would not only be insulting to us, but…