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Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Hasta La Vista, Puerto Rico! 🇵🇷

La Fortaleza is the oldest mansion in Puerto Rico. It serves as the mansion of the current governor Jenniffer González-Colón. She is a Republican who favors statehood.

President Donald J. Trump might be willing to do this without any hesitation.

After all he allowed a comedian to call it an island of garbage. And they are no closer to be a part of the United States or having representation that affects allocations of federal funds. He wanted to violently take Greenland and Canada.

He tried the island like shit as they are suffering through a power grid failure.

Oh, remember Trump failed them during Hurricane Maria.

They are pretty much an autonomous incorporated territory.... a commonwealth.

With a population of 3.7 million residents, Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory (if it was a U.S. state) it would carry at least three congressional districts, two senators and a estimated net worth of $8.3 billion in tax revenue.

The Drudge Report has a blaring headline about the island planning on cutting ties with the United States and rejoin the Espana. The island was acquired in 1898 after the Spanish-American War.

Part of the Puerto Rican population is now showing interest in joining the European Union by reuniting with Spain. The "Adelante Reunificacionistas" political movement, born in 2017, is gaining momentum with its audacious plan for Puerto Rico to reintegrate with Spain as its 18th autonomous community.

Rep. Pablo Hernández Rivera (D-PR) is the current resident commissioner of Puerto Rico.

The founders of the movement claim that approximately 13% of Puerto Ricans support this idea, viewing it as a pathway to a more prosperous future.

"Puerto Rico never wanted to separate from Spain," the organization's president Jose Lara said.

Lara argues that since becoming a U.S. territory, Puerto Rico has experienced over a century "of subjugation" and stagnation under American governance that hasn't granted them complete citizenship rights.

Even though they are U.S. citizens, Puerto Ricans can't vote in presidential general elections and lack voting representation in Congress.

"We want Puerto Rico to regain the status it lost when it joined the United States," Lara said.

He said emphasizing Spanish as the primary language and preserving Hispanic cultural traditions are key in persuading locals about the benefits of reintegrating with Spain.

"We want a future of progress, and we believe that future lies in Spain," he said.

It is possibility for Puerto Rico to separate itself from the United States. The push for statehood remains strong but waning. To continue as an incorporated territory only means 3/5 of a human.

Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Northern Mariana Islands, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands have no equal representation or voting rights for president. 

Republicans strongly oppose granting presidential voting rights to the territories.

Democrats have struggled to pass the John Lewis Voting Act. They couldn't do it with Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema and John Fetterman blocking the majority from passing meaningful legislation.

The filibuster could be removed if Republicans are angered by Democratic opposition to the Big Beautiful Bill and Trump’s controversial nominees.

Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens. They have to register in the United States and be a resident of the state to vote for president.

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