Puerto Rico Shouldn't Become a State

I believe the Yankees will provide us with all their freedoms and blindfold all progress of our beautiful face. We can certainly do unprecedented manufacturing and commercial activities, but all of this is in their hands, monopolized, and used by them. "(Puerto Rico: Fire of Resistance, 34). This statement by Puerto Rican journalists emphasizes the reason that Puerto Rico should not be controlled by the United States.

Puerto Rico has been the territory of the United States since 1898 (read: colony), in 1917 the Puerto Rican acquire American citizenship through the Congressional Act. However, the Puerto Ricans who live in Puerto Rico do not enjoy the full benefit of becoming a US citizen. For example, Puerto Rico's funds declined by 38% despite paying the same level health insurance tax as the other 50 states. People living in Puerto Rico can not vote for the President of the United States (but they can vote for the president's primary) and they are not voting in Congress.

Elections in Puerto Rico are managed by the Federal Election Commission and the Puerto Rican National Election Commission. While staying in Puerto Rico, Puerto Ricans can not vote for the US presidential election, but they can vote for the primary. Puerto Ricans who become resident of the United States can participate in the presidential election. Puerto Rico has consulates from 41 countries, mainly from the United States and Europe, most of them in San Juan. Puerto Rico, an unincorporated area in the United States, does not have a first-level administrative district specified by the United States Government, but there are 78 municipalities in the second grade. Mona is not a municipality but a part of Mayagues city.

Puerto Rico is an unincorporated area of ​​the Caribbean USA. The island is also known as the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the capital is in San Juan. Puerto Rico citizens are official citizens of the United States, but Puerto Rico is territory rather than country. In other words, Puerto Rican citizens can not vote for the U.S. federal election and will not participate in Congress. According to historians and archeologists, former inhabitants of Puerto Rico are known as orthoiroid people engaged in fishing and hunting. It is thought that these Ortoiroid people arrived on the island before 250 BC. In the 11th century, Taino culture was the main culture of the island. People who practice this culture mean "the country of the king of the nobility" named "Boriken". Christopher Columbus arrived at the coast in November 1493. Puerto Rico became a Spanish colony in 1520