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THEI Eyeballs Puerto Rico: Remain a Territory, Become the 52nd State or become an Independent Country?

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Source: The Hill

BY MALLORY SHELBOURNE – 

Puerto Rico voted overwhelmingly in favor of statehood on Sunday in a referendum that begins the steps toward sending representatives to Washington, D.C.

According to The Wall Street Journal, 97 percent of voters chose statehood, though turnout was only about 23 percent. One-and-a-half percent voted for independence from the United States, according to Decision Desk HQ, while 1.3 percent voted to keep the current status of a territory of the United States. . . Read Complete Report

Puerto Rico Votes to Become a State

David Pakman Show

Published on Jun 13, 2017

Why is Puerto Rico not part of the United States of America?

Published on Mar 31, 2017

Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory of the United States of America? She sits in an in-between limbo, neither a state or an independent nation. So how did Puerto Rico become owned by, but not part of America?


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Taxation without Representation: DC takes statehood fight to Senate

Featured Map: Location of Washington, D.C., in the contiguous United States and in relation to the U.S. states of Maryland and Virginia. This is a map of the location of Washington, D.C. showing the borders of states and counties around it. SOURCE: Wikipedia (Public Domain)

youtube by RT America 

Published on Sept 16, 2014

A Senate panel is taking a look at the possibility of turning Washington, DC into the 51st state. Over 630,000 people currently reside in the federal district, but have no representation in Congress. Residents have long fought for the right to have a say in the government that taxes them, but politics is a perpetual roadblock in their quest. DC Shadow Senator Paul Strauss joins RT’s Ameera David to discuss the fight and its implications.