I appear before you as Governor of Puerto Rico. As you know, I am also President of the New Progressive Party, which advocates statehood as a final solution for the island's more than a century old status issue.
Fortuno discusses his dual role and advocates for Puerto Rico's statehood.
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I think that the issue of the status of Puerto Rico not only affects the lives of all Puerto Ricans...
Cynically entitled 'The Puerto Rican Democracy Act,' the bill purports to advance the principle of self-determination, yet it proposes the continuation of the colonial status of unincorporated territory.
The only way to address this situation whereby our constitutional rights are never the same if we live in a territory is to either move to one of the 50 states or become a state.
Puerto Rico is a colony of the United States of America. Puerto Rico is war booty from the war in 1898.
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