Word: puerto
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Expressing his support for United States-Puerto Rico Status Act (HR 856), Tito Roman, regional director of the Massachusetts Regional Office of the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration, spoke to an audience of about 15 at the John F. Kennedy School last night...
...passed, HR 856, which is currently before Congress, would authorize Puerto Rico to hold a self-determination plebiscite which will decide on its political status...
...bill defines the current status of Puerto Rico as that of "an unincorporated territory subject to Congress' power under the Constitution's Territorial Clause." The island is also described as a free-associated state...
...bill, which proclaims that it will "provide a process leading to full self government of Puerto Rico," presents voters with three options: commonwealth, separate sovereignty and statehood...
Juan Flores, who will be a visiting professor at Harvard in the spring, told an anecdote about a place he visited in Puerto Rico populated by Puerto Rican-Americans who had returned to Puerto Rico. The people there spoke English better than Spanish, he said. They "went home, but not quite home," he said...