Pedro Pierluisi actually said...

Our Nation is being ridiculed for its hypocrisy in spending billions of dollars and putting its young men and women in harm's way to bring democracy to people who don't want it or don't understand it, while at the same time they deny participation in the Nation's democratic process to 3.6 million American citizens because they live in Puerto Rico.

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Criticizing U.S. hypocrisy in promoting democracy abroad while denying rights to Puerto Ricans.

06/23/2015

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