While they are quick to report that statehood won the November 2020 referendum with 52% of the vote, they routinely omit that a mere 55% of the Puerto Rican electorate took part.
My bill is the only bill that offers a clear, transparent, inclusive, and democratic way for Puerto Ricans to be informed on the consequence...
If we truly want to solve the issue of status for the island, we need to give Puerto Ricans the tools to design a true self-determination pr...
The Puerto Rico Self-Determination Act of 2021 represents the only genuine democratic legislation about Puerto Rico's status before the 117t...
Puerto Rico is a nation, a colonized nation, but a nation nonetheless.
The only bill that does that is the bill presented by Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez and Ocasio-Cortez.
I denounced on the House floor the homophobic and transphobic slurs and policies of Thomas Rivera Schatz.
It is a political tool that has been used by the resistance ad memoriam.
Nydia Velazquez's bill is based on the pillar of what? Respecting other people's opinion and bringing about consensus.
The people in Puerto Rico didn't take that referendum seriously.
They got a whopping 97 percent. They did so good that they had to do a repeat 4 years later because no one thought--because not even Putin g...