Luis Fortuno: “I want to commend you and thank you for standing up for the American citizens residing in Puerto Rico...”

The current economic crisis is a cruel manifestation that territorial status is not a sustainable model for the political economy of America's last large and populous territory.

Where are the jobs? Where is the economic opportunity? Where is the possibility for the people of Puerto Rico?

How can anybody that says that they believe in democracy and that they want the U.S. citizenship, not want to participate in the democratic process of the nation they are citizens with?

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.