State Debate Rages On

December 2007 | Ratings Update

In late October, the House Natural Resources Committee of the US Congress voted in favour of legislation to provide for a federally sanctioned process of self-determination for Puerto Rico. The governor of Puerto Rico, Aníbal Acevedo Vilá has opposed the Act, accusing the original text of favouring independence or statehood over the current Commonwealth arrangement by combining the first two options into one category subject to a second round of voting. The issue of the status of Puerto Rico has been debated ever since the island was acquired by the US from Spain in 1898. While this is a positive

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