Pedro Pierluisi actually said...

I firmly believe independence is not the right economic answer to our situation.

The almost 4 million disenfranchised U.S. citizens in Puerto Rico count on your support to secure our equal rights and responsibilities.

Regarding the status issue, as you well know, statehood won the 2012 plebiscite.

I believe that we need to sit down and come up with a new economic arrangement.