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...Roman Catholic bishop in predominantly Catholic Puerto Rico last week jumped broadly into the statehood v. commonwealth debate. In a letter to the New York Times, James McManus, the Brooklyn-born Bishop of Ponce, charged that Muñoz Marín, by saying repeatedly that Puerto Rico is "a proud, free, self-governing commonwealth, joined to the U.S. by her own choice," is eloquently ignoring the hard historical fact. The 1952 law that established the commonwealth, McManus pointed out, did not free Puerto Rico, but merely changed it from a "nonautonomous territory" to an "autonomous territory." In fact, said...
Ferré's opposition is durable Governor Luis Muñoz Marín, 62, architect of Puerto Rico's commonwealth status and the Popular Democratic Party's unannounced candidate for a fourth term. Trying to counter the presidential boost for Ferré, Muñoz declared that Eisenhower on his visit had "recognized the great value of commonwealth and the great economic and social progress registered under the present government of Puerto Rico." Some Muñoz followers, taking a different tack, grumped that Ike's friendliness toward Ferré amounted to interference in Puerto...
...Certain Arrogance." While Pérez Jiménez and his cronies got rich from graft and his cops gunned down A.D. members, Betancourt traveled and talked at length and at leisure with the democrats of the hemisphere: Puerto Rico's Governor Luis Muñoz Marin (TIME cover, June 23, 1958), President José ("Pepe") Figueres of Costa Rica, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State (under Franklin Roosevelt) Adolf A. Berle Jr. He lingered over garlicky meals in modest Manhattan restaurants, analyzed what had gone wrong. After nine years of wandering and pondering, he decided that...
...Governor's Shame. The U.S. Government also backs Betancourt-a 180° change of opinion. During Pérez Jiménez' reign, the U.S. pinned the Legion of Merit on the dictator and regarded Exile Betancourt as a troublemaking embarrassment. In 1955 Governor Muñoz Marin of Puerto Rico invited President Figueres of Costa Rica to a meeting in Puerto Rico, where Betancourt, a good friend of both, was then living. The State Department's chief for Latin American Affairs, Henry Holland, hastily got Muñoz Marin on the telephone. He insisted that Mu...
...slowest in the nation) in 1991, Mississippi in 1996. Statehooders, who are willing to pay the penalty of increased taxes in return for an end to what they call "second-class citizenship," find that too long to wait, talk of statehood within ten years or sooner. To them, Governor Muñoz Marin's political timetable is less significant than his reluctant admission that the tide for statehood is running strong...