Puerto Rico voters have rejected the current territorial status and voted in favor of statehood. Congress is expected to consider the question of Puerto Rico’s… Read More »Puerto Rican Naturalization – How to Become a U.S. Citizen in a New Nation
Shortly before the hearing on Puerto Rico’s status held earlier this month, a group of constitutional law scholars from the University of Puerto Rico, Columbia,… Read More »Constitutional Law Scholars Endorse Proposal for Statehood Ratification Vote
While Puerto Rico is currently a territory of the United States, the majority of Puerto Ricans voted in November 2020 to end that territorial status.… Read More »Top 10 Reasons to Support Statehood for Puerto Rico
Recent estimates say that there are about 5.8 million Puerto Ricans living in the States, compared with 3.2 million on the Island. Puerto Ricans are… Read More »Puerto Rican Population in the States
Puerto Rico is a territory of the United States… but just what does it mean to be a territory? The United States formed as a… Read More »What Does It Mean to Be a Territory of the United States?
The short answer: the United States won Puerto Rico in a war. From the landing of Columbus in 1492 until 1898, Puerto Rico was a… Read More »How Did Puerto Rico Become a U.S. Territory?
ELA — Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico — translates as “Free Associated State of Puerto Rico” or “Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.” These translations have… Read More »Celebrating 68 Years of Commonwealth…and Confusion
It has become commonplace for news outlets to talk about Greece and Puerto Rico together. Sometimes they compare Greece and Puerto Rico as examples of… Read More »Pierluisi: Comparison to Greece is Inapt, Puerto Rico Must Become a State to be Treated Equally
A blog post entitled “The Perfect Human is Puerto Rican” in the normally staid blog, “Bits of DNA,” which provides “Reviews and Commentary on Computational Biology,” has… Read More »The ‘Perfect Human’ Is a Puerto Rican Woman
