Word: marquina
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Graduate student Jorge R. Marquina, whosupports Puerto Rican statehood, said he wasdisappointed by the outcome of the vote. "Roughlyhalf [of Puerto Rico] is afraid to change, so theycling to the present, this commonwealth, [whichis] a colony of another name," he said...
...secede completely or to join completelyshould be Puerto Rico's only choices, "none ofthis halfway stuff," said Marquina. "I feel likeI'm being given second class status...
...Though Marquina said independence is not aneconomically viable option because "no industrycan support an independent Puerto Rico," he saidthe island's people must make one decision oranother to change the island's current status...
...been kept at arms-length colonialstatus," Marquina said. "Why haven't weconsummated the relationship, to put it in easierterms? We've been going out for the past 95years...