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Pedro Pierluisi: “We don't want to continue a relation with the USA as a colonial dependency.”

On the recordApril 11, 2016
We don't want to continue a relation with the USA as a colonial dependency.
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Pedro Pierluisi
Democratic · Puerto Rico

Editor's note · Context

Calls for an end to Puerto Rico's colonial status with the U.S.

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