Attorney General and Pennsylvania Governor Dick Thornburgh, as quoted by Pedro Rosselló, Governor of Puerto Rico, Testimony before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, May 6, 1999. [F]ormer United States Attorney General Dick Thornburgh has carefully scrutinized the results of our 1998 plebiscite, and the following sentences are excerpted from essays that Mr. Thornburgh… Read more »
Puerto Rico’s Future: A Time to Decide, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Attorney General and Pennsylvania Governor Dick Thornburgh, Puerto Rico’s Future: A Time to Decide, Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2007, pp. 5-6 . The disenfranchisement of the people of Puerto Rico for more than a century, since the United States acquired Puerto Rico, from Spain at the end of the nineteenth century, cannot be… Read more »
Interagency Group on Puerto Rico, Testimony before the House Resources Committee
Interagency Group on Puerto Rico, Testimony before the House Resources Committee, March 19, 1997, p. 90. [President Clinton has] recognized that the frustrating debate is likely to persist until the Federal Government clarifies what the options really are and how they can be implemented. The differing status aspirations that Puerto Ricans have long discussed largely… Read more »
Jeffrey L. Farrow, Co-Chair of President Clinton’s Interagency Group on Puerto Rico, Testimony before the House Natural Resources Committee
Jeffrey L. Farrow, Co-Chair of President Clinton’s Interagency Group on Puerto Rico, Testimony before the House Natural Resources Committee, October 4, 2000, p. 15-16. Many aspects of this [Enhanced Commonwealth] proposal would require actions by the United States to be implemented, so Puerto Ricans should know the United States’ views on it before they consider… Read more »
President Gerald Ford, Letter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate, Submitting Proposed Puerto Rico Statehood Legislation
President Gerald Ford, Letter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate, Submitting Proposed Puerto Rico Statehood Legislation, January 14, 1977. Since 1900, Presidents and Congresses have debated the question of statehood for Puerto Rico. Some progress has been made in providing the people of Puerto Rico with greater… Read more »
President Bill Clinton, Remarks on the United States – Puerto Rico Political Status Act (H.R. 856)
President Bill Clinton, Remarks on the United States – Puerto Rico Political Status Act (H.R. 856), Democratic Governors’ Association Dinner, February 23, 1998. This is the centennial year of Puerto Rico’s affiliation with the United States. And I think that it is time that we responded to the aspirations of the 4 million U.S. citizens… Read more »
President Bill Clinton, News Conference in Vieques Island, Puerto Rico, February 16, 2000.
President Bill Clinton, News Conference on Vieques Island, Puerto Rico, February 16, 2000. Q. [D]o you believe in your heart that Puerto Rico’s colonial status is the root of this problem [the local discontent with Navy bombing and military exercises on the island] or is [it] related to Puerto Ricans’ ambivalence to issues of national… Read more »
President Bill Clinton, Executive Order 13183
President Bill Clinton, Executive Order 13183, Establishment of the President’s Task Force on Puerto Rico’s Status, December 23, 2000. It is the policy of the executive branch of the Government of the United States of America to help answer the questions that the people of Puerto Rico have asked for years regarding the options for… Read more »
Feasibility of “Commonwealth”
THE “COMMONWEALTH” PROPOSAL IS “UNREALISTIC,”[1] “DECEPTIVE,”[2] “UNACCEPTABLE,”[3] AND AN “UNATTAINABLE MYTH”[4]
Congress Has an Obligation to Resolve Puerto Rico’s Status as a Territory of the United States
Recognition by National, State and Grassroots Leaders Presidents of the United States President-elect Barack Obama, letter to Rep. Luis Fortuño, January 2, 2009. I am fully aware of the difficulties that Puerto Rico has faced in the past when dealing with this issue, but self-determination is a basic right to be addressed no matter… Read more »
Recent Comments