Word: pro-commonwealth
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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...clearly had been well-planned. Puerto Rico is not likely to ask for independence, nor is it liable to opt for statehood. Commonwealth status suits Governor Muñoz and the island well. Muñoz wants his people to ratify it both for their own protection and as an answer to the Castroites, who ridicule the island as a "perfumed colony" of the U.S. He himself is Commonwealth's most ardent champion: he and his pro-Commonwealth Popular Democratic Party have swept into power in four consecutive general elections, the last time in 1960 with an overwhelming...
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