The Americanization of Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico's Americanized Puerto Ricans welcomed North Americans to their homes when the inhabitants of the island were planning to invade Puerto Rico first and plan to drive away the Spanish rulers. (To see the ongoing work of the Spanish-American war from the perspective of expansion of the colonial period, please visit this site / visit this site for an objective historical explanation). The Puerto Rican people are tired of not saying anything to politics and government, they know that America is democracy, people wish that this situation will change.

Prior to the Spanish-American war, since the discovery of the Spaniards in 1493, Puerto Rico moved to sovereign independent nation for the first time in history. But before completing the transition to independent autonomy, the US Navy bombed San Juan the capital, kicked out Spanish leaders from the island and consolidated the US in every problem in Puerto Rico. As stated in the book "War Against All Puerto Ricans", the United States demanded the right to self-determination of Puerto Rico and the independence movement of the 1950s by the murder, torture and imprisonment of the Puerto Rican nationalists who fought Responded. Independent sports leader Pedro Albizu Campos was captured in prison cell, tortured, and received fatal radiation poisoning

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.

Since the war of the Spanish-American, Puerto Rico has been active under the complete economic and political control of America. Therefore, the economic crisis in Puerto Rico is the result of the laws and policies of paternalistic colonialism, which has been established mainly by parliament and government for many years. The aging grid of the island, the collapse of the infrastructure, and the shortage of resources are the result of Jones law, a series of tax cuts called Operation bootstrapping was introduced in the late 1940s. However, after the 2000 tax incentives and the 2008 recession, Puerto Rico experienced a major recession. In line with Puerto Rico's failure to control the PROMESA financial situation, PROMESA denied that their institutions were prepared for disasters like Mary, and the island's financial crisis became unsustainable.