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On the recordJune 23, 2015
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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Pedro Pierluisi
Democratic · Puerto Rico

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Pierluisi emphasizes the unsustainability of Puerto Rico's territorial status amid its economic crisis.

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