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Puerto Rico should become the 51st American state, a former governor of the commonwealth told about 100 people at Boylston Hall yesterday...
...commonwealth is the barrier, the wall," Romero-Barcelo said. "As the Berlin Wall prevented East Germany from achieving democracy, the commonwealth is the invisible wall preventing equality...
Puerto Rico's current commonwealth status offers the islands tax benefits but does not give them full political representation. Romero-Barcelo said because welfare services are not provided by the federal government at the same level as for U.S. states, the tax shelters now enjoyed by corporations and wealthy residents actually hurt the island as a whole...
...first of the visits next week, current Gov. Rafael Hernandez-Colon will make the case that Puerto Rico should retain its current status as an American commonwealth, according to members of La Organizacion, the student group sponsoring the event...
...impetus for the visits is the June 1991 referendum in which Puerto Ricans will vote on whether to retain commonwealth status, apply for statehood or seek independence, according to Lee Pai of the Harvard Foundation, which is co-sponsoring the program...