On the recordJune 23, 2009
I want to commend both of you for your leadership in bringing forward the discussion of this fundamental issue of American democracy.
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Fortuno praises leadership for addressing Puerto Rico's democratic status.
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Jun 23, 2015
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.
Feb 1, 2016
Puerto Rico is a colony of the United States of America. Puerto Rico is war booty from the war in 1898.
Feb 24, 2016
We should also go down there to fill our minds with their ideas, their aspirations, and their dreams.
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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.
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