As a Boricua living in New York, I’ve never felt it was my place to tell islanders how to live, but I always felt that commonwealth was a fancy word for colony…kind of the same way a janitor could be titled a “custodial engineer”. My belief is, if you’re not part of the team, and if you’re not your own team, then you’re just the towelboy. And that’s what Puerto Rico has become…America’s towelboy.

Statehood and independence are the only choices that offer Puerto Ricans the true autonomy and self-determination they deserve. Also, I don’t understand why the Governor is crying to the U.N. about abuses at the hands of the Bush Administration when Puerto Ricans support either statehood or colony, with independence getting very little support.

Your arguments against statehood are well-grounded, though there are more arguments against statehood as well.

I, like many Boricuas living in the States, would love to see an independent Puerto Rican nation. But I agree with you that the island does not have the infrastructure needed to sustain itself.

That’s why I think that if Puerto Rico does vote for independence, it should be done with an agreement to remain as a commonwealth for five years more while entering a nation-building transition stage to create the political and economic infrastructure for sovereignty. Most of the bases that were once on Puerto Rico are now closed, so I think Washington will agree to these terms as there is not much more they can exploit Puerto Rico for.

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Of course, the best solution is to move the free-state project from NH to PR.