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	Puerto Rican Independence Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Puerto Rican Independence Party (Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño (PIP) in Spanish) is a Puerto Rican political party that campaigns for the independence of Puerto Rico from the United States.
		During the 2004 elections, the PIP was in serious danger of disappearing, obtaining only 2.4% of the popular vote (According to Puerto Rican electoral laws, a party that receives less that 3% of the vote is considered eradicated).
		The PIP's flag is based on the first national flag ever flown by Puerto Ricans, and the current flag of the municipality of Lares.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Puerto_Rican_Independence_Party (767 words)

	Senate of Puerto Rico - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Senate of Puerto Rico is the upper house of the Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico, smaller than the House of Representatives.
		The Senate, its members and staff are housed in the eastern half of the Capitol Building, the Rafael Martinez-Nadal Senate Annex Building, the Luis Muñoz-Marin Office Building, the Antonio R. Barcelo Building, the Luis A. Ferre Building and the Ramon Mellado-Parsons Office Building.
		The Senate is currently composed of 17 members elected under the pro-statehood New Progressive Party (NPP), nine members elected under the pro-status quo Popular Democratic Party (PDP) and one member elected under the Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Senate_of_Puerto_Rico (452 words)

	PUERTO RICO HERALD: Puerto Rico: 51st State? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		It is therefore erroneous to suggest that by entering the union an island with a population slightly over 1 percent of the total on the American mainland and a per-capita income of $9,800 would pose a secessionist threat to the greatest economic and military superpower in history.
		Obviously, the question of Puerto Rican statehood should be left to the residents of the island who have to live with the consequences of their decision.
		I cannot agree with Jeffrey T. Kuhner, who, in the June 21 Op-Ed article "Puerto Rico, 51st state?" argues that "the question of Puerto Rican statehood should be left to the residents of the island." Yes, the people of Puerto Rico have the right to self-determination.
	www.puertorico-herald.org /issues/2001/vol5n26/PR51State-en.shtml (2028 words)

	Decades of FBI Surveillance of Puerto Rican Groups by Mireya Navarro
		Puerto Rico, a commonwealth of the United States, has strong pro-statehood and pro-commonwealth movements, the latter made up of those who want to keep the status quo or some modified version of it.
		Bosque-Perez was one of the authors of a 1997 book on the Puerto Rican police dossiers, known as "carpetas." He said the first inkling that he was under investigation came in the late 1960's, when he was still in high school and politically active.
		Kenneth D. McClintock, the Senate minority leader in Puerto Rico and an advocate of statehood, noted that government persecution was not the only factor contributing to the decline of independence fervor.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Caribbean/FBI_PuertoRicanGroups.html (1621 words)

	HispanicVista Columnists
		As a result, 18,000 Puerto Ricans enlisted or were drafted into the army during World War I. Segregated from the rest of the American armed forces, the Puerto Rican Regiment was prepared for war service in the spring of 1917.
		Puerto Rican women were also given an opportunity to take part in the war effort against the Nazis and Japanese.
		This included 18,000 Puerto Ricans who had enlisted in the Continental U.S. According to statistics compiled by the Office of the Governor of Puerto Rico shortly after the war, one of every 42 casualties suffered by U.S. forces was Puerto Rican.
	www.hispanicvista.com /hvc/Opinion/Guest_Columns/122004schmal.htm (1771 words)

	Puerto Rico Under U.S. Colonial Rule (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		This new Puerto Rican identity, which was in large part based upon historical myths, served as defense mechanisms to combat the elite’s dissatisfaction with the new political, social and economic relationships under US rule.
		The Puerto Rican Senate and House of Representatives were severely limited by President’s line item veto and the fact that they still remained under the absolute jurisdiction of the Constitution.
		Such limitations against the Puerto Rican people seemed very reasonable to the US colonizers given the fact that they were faced with the "responsibility" of preparing a politically immature people to someday achieve self government.
	www.trincoll.edu /~rwalker/paper2.htm (1715 words)

	PUERTO RICO HERALD: A Tribute to Puerto Rican Veterans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In the segregated armed forces of that time, Puerto Ricans were relegated to a minor role: most were stationed in the Panama Canal Zone.
		Their traditional duty had been defending the Caribbean region; now Puerto Rican men were sent to fight in Europe, where they served with distinction.
		During the conflict, three Puerto Ricans were awarded the Medal of Honor in recognition of their heroism.
	www.puertorico-herald.org /issues/vol3n46/VetsTribute-en.shtml (705 words)

	English in Puerto Rico
		Because of the imposed nature of English in the schools along with the unresolved nature of Puerto Rican political status, the issue of bilingualism continues to be debated hotly on a daily basis on the island.
		In other words, Puerto Ricans have resisted learning English as a means of retaining their native language and culture, which they perceive as threatened by the United States.
		To be or not to be bilingual in Puerto Rico.
	home.earthlink.net /~apousada/id1.html (7603 words)

	Las Vegas SUN: Puerto Rican Senate Seeks to Ease Crisis
		Puerto Rico's Senate approved a key piece of legislation Saturday aimed at resolving a partial government shutdown that has closed the U.S. territory's schools and kept more than 100,000 public employees out of work since May 1.
		The House and Senate also approved a fund to help pay down the island's debt, using part of the revenue from an as-yet undetermined new sales tax that was part of the agreement between the lawmakers and Acevedo to end the shutdown.
		Puerto Rico's political leaders first announced they had reached a deal late Wednesday, after a special commission called for the emergency loan, the sales tax and other measures to resolve the shutdown, which crippled government services and hurt businesses on the Caribbean island.
	www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/w-sa/2006/may/13/051300475.html (490 words)

	The death of the Puerto Rican statehood movement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Senator Lucy Arce said that she was offered $140,000 and a job as Secretary of the Senate, currently paying $108,000 per year, to give up her seat to Rosselló.
		The Puerto Rican Department of Justice is investigating the allegations.
		However, statehood for Puerto Rico is nothing more than an illusion, as a minority of Puerto Ricans support it, and the US government has shown no desire whatsoever to offer it.
	www.axisoflogic.com /cgi-bin/exec/view.pl?archive=85&num=14869&printer=1 (550 words)

	Hispanic Americans in Congress -- Romero-Barceló
		His family has long been involved in Puerto Rican politics; his maternal grandfather, Antonio R. Barceló, was one of the founders of the Liberal Party and the first president of the Puerto Rican Senate.
		That same year he was elected Governor of Puerto Rico, and was reelected four years later, serving from 1977 to 1985, becoming the fifth elected governor of Puerto Rico to occupy La Fortaleza, the oldest continuously lived-in executive mansion in the Western Hemisphere.
		However, he maintained an active presence in various national and Puerto Rican political circles and in 1989 he was once again elected president of the New Progressive Party.
	www.loc.gov /rr/hispanic/congress/romerobarcelo.html (685 words)

	Problems of Puerto Rican Statehood
		The legislation in question passed by a vote of 33-10 in the Puerto Rican House of Representatives, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer on October 26, 1990.
		The issue of the official language of Puerto Rico's government should it become a state is not only an emotional one for Puerto Ricans, it is a potential problem for the rest of the nation.
		Puerto Rico's former governor, Carlos Romero Barcelo, has written, in his book, Statehood is for the Poor, that "the island would take billions more out of the federal treasury than it would put in," according to Professor Antonio M. Stevens-Arroyo, writing in the January 22, 1990 issue of The Nation.
	www.englishfirst.org /puerto/puertoeff.htm (3306 words)

	International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission -
		The Puerto Rican Senate has a historic opportunity to rid the Commonwealth of legislation that is not only outdated but harmful, as these laws leave many unprotected in the face of serious human rights violations while condemning others who commit no crime at all.
		On November 4, 1997, Reverend Margarita Sanchez (from Movimiento Ecumenico Nacional de Puerto Rico) turned herself into the Division of Sexual Crimes of the Department of Justice, confessing to have committed the "crime of sodomy the night before." San Juan District Attorney Ramón Muñiz Santiago declined to prosecute her.
		Puerto Rico is a colony (called a "Commonwealth") of the United States; the latter has ratified only a limited number of international human rights instruments, and has failed to ratify the Inter-American Human Rights Convention.
	www.iglhrc.org /site/iglhrc/section.php?id=5&detail=427 (1310 words)

	Puerto Rico’s status lies in the hands of Congress (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The island’s Senate passed the resolution Jan. 18, with the PPD minority voting against, and it now has to be approved by the lower house.
		The PIP, which represents the views of about 5 percent of Puerto Rican voters, is equally enthusiastic about the White House report, calling it a “mortal blow” to the ELA and a first step toward the end of colonialism.
		A continuing feud between Rossello and Resident Commissioner Luis Fortuño, and a long-running tussle for control of the Puerto Rican Senate between Rossello and a group of PNP senators led by the current president of the upper house, Kenneth McClintock, complicates the PNP’s campaign.
	www.thehill.com /thehill/export/TheHill/Comment/OpEd/020106_oxford.html (1141 words)

	CNN - Early results show Puerto Ricans reject statehood - December 13, 1998
		SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (CNN) -- A majority of Puerto Rican voters have rejected the idea of becoming the 51st U.S. state in favor of maintaining the island's current commonwealth status, according to preliminary results from a Sunday plebiscite.
		Puerto Rico, which has 3.8 million residents, became a U.S. territory in 1898 as a result of the Spanish-American War.
		STATUS: Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens but pay no federal taxes and cannot vote for president or congressional representatives unless they live on the mainland.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/americas/9812/13/puerto.rico.vote.02 (735 words)

	BBC News \| Americas \| Puerto Rico eyes up 51st state
		The vote is set for 13 December, when Puerto Ricans will choose between statehood, independence, independence with a vaguely defined free association with the US or continuing with the Commonwealth arrangement.
		Puerto Ricans are US citizens, but they cannot vote for president unless they live on the mainland and their sole representative in Congress has no vote.
		Senator Kenneth McClintoch, president of the Government Committee in the Puerto Rican Senate, likens the issue to the US civil-rights movement.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/149723.stm (285 words)

	Puerto Rico left out of consumer offers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Kenneth McClintock, president of the Puerto Rican Senate, said companies such as Dell use Puerto Rico as a “Third World dumping site” for products that are hard to sell in the United States.
		Puerto Rico’s lone member of Congress, Resident Commissioner Luis Fortuño (R), said he has been subjected to unfair practices of American companies.
		Manuel Mirabal, president of the National Puerto Rican Coalition, suggested that one of the reasons Puerto Rican residents are charged more is transactions with the commonwealth are considered a foreign business transaction.
	www.hillnews.com /thehill/export/TheHill/Business/042705_rico.html (566 words)

	The GULLY \| Americas \| Is Puerto Rico's Governor Out of Her Depth?
		But as an April 30 editorial in the Puerto Rican daily El Nuevo Día snidely pointed at, that grandstanding occurred when she was a candidate.
		Others, already wary of her party's support for a pro-U.S. Associated Commonwealth status for Puerto Rico, will denounce her as a traitor if she moves one conciliatory inch towards the colonialist power, especially if she has to break a campaign promise and call in Puerto Rican cops to quell protesters.
		Puerto Ricans "have been brainwashed to think that they can't survive without America, that all our air comes from the north," he told the New York Times.
	www.thegully.com /essays/puertorico/010430vq_calderon.html (1109 words)

	Puerto Rico: Support Sodomy Law Repeal, Rape Law Reform
		The Puerto Rican Senate has the historic opportunity to get rid of legislation that is not only outdated but harmful, as these laws leave many unprotected in the face of serious human rights violations while condemning others who commit no crime at all.
		The Puerto Rican Constitution protects against discrimination based on "race, color, sex, birth, origin or social status, political or religious beliefs" (Article 2.1).
		Unfortunately, Puerto Rico has a colonial relationship to the United States, and the latter has ratified very few of the widely-accepted international human rights instruments, and has failed to ratify the Interamerican Human Rights Convention.
	www.sodomylaws.org /usa/puerto_rico/pralert01.htm (1225 words)

	Puerto Rico’s status lies in the hands of Congress (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Puerto Ricans follow the same traditions, where my country is the physical space where we live and our nation is the a federalist United States of America.
		Puerto Ricans were made U.S. citizens in 1917, but residents there have no right to vote in presidential elections or to send representatives to Congress.
		An astounding 59.4 percent of Puerto Rican children born on the U.S. mainland are born to unwed mothers, a rate twice the (dismayingly high) national average and much greater than any other Hispanic group in the U.S. Unemployment on the island is over 13 percent, more than twice the national figure.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1569304/posts (5606 words)

	Many Visions for Peace
		The differences reflect the diversity of viewpoints, nationalities, cultures and expertise represented at the meet, which was the intent of the dialogue organized by the Puerto Rican Senate and the Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress, founded by former Costa Rican president and Nobel Peace laureate Oscar Arias.
		The Puerto Rico Declaration included a call to resolve the profound economic inequalities of the planet, and will be brought before the World Summit on Sustainable Development, which begins Aug 26 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
		The lawmaker denounced "the ecological destruction and the terminal illnesses caused by military and war practices," in light of the U.S. navy bombing training on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques.
	www.tierramerica.net /2002/0818/iacentos.shtml (651 words)

	New Light on Old F.B.I. Fight
		Bosque-Pérez was one of the authors of a 1997 book on the Puerto Rican police dossiers, known as "carpetas." He said the first inkling that he was under investigation came in the late 1960's, when he was still in high school and politically active.
		Muñoz Marín was already president of the Puerto Rican Senate, an F.B.I. agent described him as "a political opportunist supported by radical politicians who desire Puerto Rico's independence from the United States."
		Matos Rodríguez, the director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, one of the largest Latino archives in the United States and the only one focusing on the history of the Puerto Rican diaspora, wants to see the first batch of F.B.I. files posted on the Center's Web site, www.centropr.org, by spring.
	www.globalexchange.org /countries/americas/unitedstates/democracy/1317.html (1614 words)

	Comisión por la Verdad y la Justicia
		A string of unsolved political crimes committed in Puerto Rico during the 70's and the 80's‹among them the murders of Carlos Muñiz Varela and Santiago "Chagui" Mari Pesquera‹are under investigation by the Juridical Commission of the Senate of Puerto Rico.
		Active in the pro-independence movement, "Chagui" was the son of Juan Mari Brás, founder of the Puerto Rican Socialist Party (PSP) and one of the most prominent leaders in the struggle against U.S. domination.
		The Justice Department and the Senate, which by then was in the hands of the pro-statehood party, ignored the new evidence for 10 years, perhaps hoping that it would go away.
	www.verdadyjusticia.org /prensa/internet/will_justice_be_done.htm (1430 words)

	Hispanic Americans in Congress -- Pagán
		In 1921 he graduated with a law degree from the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras; the same year he was admitted to the bar and began to practice law in San Juan.
		In 1939 Pagán was appointed Resident Commissioner to the U.S. House of Representatives by the Governor of Puerto Rico, William B. Leahy, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Pagán's father-in-law, Santiago Iglesias.
		Pagán returned to Puerto Rico, and was again elected to the Senate of Puerto Rico, was reelected in 1948, and served until 1953.
	www.loc.gov /rr/hispanic/congress/pagan.html (473 words)

	ABC News: Puerto Rico Senate OKs Bill to Ease Crisis
		Police guard Puerto Ricans taking part in a demonstration in front of the Puerto Rican Capitolio, one day after leaders brokered an agreement which appears to mark the end of the partial government shutdown, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Thursday, May 11, 2006.
		More than 100,000 Puerto Ricans are to head back to their government jobs and public schools reopen next week after politicians announced an end to a crippling budget crisis in this U.S. island territory.
		SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico May 13, 2006 (AP)— Puerto Rico's Senate approved a key piece of legislation Saturday aimed at resolving a partial government shutdown that has closed the U.S. territory's schools and kept more than 100,000 public employees out of work since May 1.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=1959034&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 (466 words)

	INGLES GRANMA INTERNACIONAL DIGITAL, CUBA
		This commission is made up of friends and relatives of the victims of political assassinations, endorsed by institutions of the Puerto Rican and U.S. governments such as the police, the FBI, the CIA and U.S. naval intelligence.
		Many of Muñiz Varela’s relatives, friends and others familiar with the case, are convinced that a sort of trilogy of assassinations took place in response to the political process that sparked the dialogue between the Cuban government and representatives of the Cuban community abroad, at the end of the 1970s.
		The three victims are Carlos Muñiz Varela, in April 1979 in Puerto Rico; Eulalio José Negrín, in New Jersey in November of the same year; and Félix García Rodríguez, in January 1980 in New York.
	www.granma.cu /ingles/marzo02-2/12remon-i.html (1560 words)

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