Talk:Puerto Rico

2006-2012 Economic depression

This article should have more information about the current economic depression in Puerto Rico, which started in 2006 and it's still ongoing. ★ Nacho ★ (Contact me) ★ 23:08, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

DATA Yes, the article should include actual data about income per head, and not data from the year 2009...At present, Puerto Rican income per head at PPP has been already surpassed by Chile and Argentina in Latinamerica, and by most Eastern European nations (Slovenia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Croatia, Slovakia, Poland...)--88.8.210.171 (talk) 20:52, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

Oscar L. Chapman 1950-1953 Secretary of Interior Statements

Please Include the 1950-1953 Secretary of Interior statements on the article.

"The bill (to permit Puerto Rico to write its own constitution) merely authorizes the people of Puerto Rico to adopt their own constitution and to organize a local government...The bill under consideration would not change Puerto Rico's political, social, and economic relationship to the United States."

These were the words of Oscar L. Chapman, then-secretary of the U.S. Interior, in 1950 when a bill to authorize Puerto Rico's Constitution was being debated in Congress. Fifty years after the enactment of the island's Constitution, Puerto Rico's unusual and unresolved political status is still being debated on Capitol Hill. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.139.67.223 (talk) 01:41, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

References: http://www.independencia.net/ingles/let_pr_decide. http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/2002/vol6n30/LetPRDecideHow2End-en.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.139.67.223 (talk) 03:51, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

Done.

My name is Mercy11 (talk) 16:00, 21 June 2012 (UTC), and I approve this message.

SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON DECOLONIZATION CALLS ON United States TO EXPEDITE PUERTO RICO’S SELF-DETERMINATION PROCESS

U.N. General Assembly GA/COL/3160

Please evaluate this to be added to the article:

SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON DECOLONIZATION CALLS ON United States TO EXPEDITE PUERTO RICO’S SELF-DETERMINATION PROCESS — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.224.252.231 (talk) 03:03, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

Done. My name is Mercy11 (talk) 15:13, 21 June 2012 (UTC), and I approve this messgae.

English translation for NPP

Several of the top leaders of Puerto Rico's governing party (NPP) and its government, including Gov. Luis Fortuño, the party president, and Secretary of State Kenneth McClintock, the party's chief spokesperson on the U.S. mainland, translate "Partido Nuevo Progresista" as "New Party for Progress", rather than "New Progressive Party". They have a point because in 1967 (year of the nationally bipartisan NPP's foundation by a Republican leader) Spanish, "progresista" referred to being in favor of "progress", while the English word "progressive" in 2012 is almost synonimous to "liberal". This, New Party for Progress is a more accurate translation of "Partido Nuevo Progresista", since the NPP is a party that includes both Republican conservatives, such as Fortuño, as well as Democratic moderates, such as McClintock and Congressman Pedro Pierluisi.

Puerto Rico’s Political Status and the 2012 Plebiscite: Background and Key Questions - Congressional Research Service

Could be updated the recent event section with the CRS Report Information?

Congressional Research Service Report

Puerto Rico’s Political Status and the 2012 Plebiscite: Background and Key Questions

October 2, 2012

Congressional Research Service

By the way, the results of the 2012 Puerto Rican status referendum are in. It looks like a majority chose to do away with the current status, and a clear majority voted for full US Statehood. (According to El Nuevo Dia: http://resultados.puertoricodecide.com/2012/elecciones-generales/)

Your statement (whoever you are) is not completely true. As per your source, 26% of the voters left the second question blank. So, only 45% of voters chose statehood, while 55% chose other options: None of the above (26% blank ballots), Sovereign ELA (24%), Independence (4%) or expressed their disagreement with the proceeding invalidating their ballots (1%). Clearly, less than 50% of voters chose statehood.--Coquidragon (talk) 14:52, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

I won't correct the edits done to the article until the count is over, but the line "Puerto Rico voted itself into statehood" is clearly misleading.--Coquidragon (talk) 15:03, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

Statehood date

When will there be official info on Puerto Rico's date of statehood?? Georgia guy (talk) 18:21, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

Excuse me? Mostly Mestizo?

In the statistics box. Where is the source for that? How can a population which was overwhelmingly white in 1900 be "overwhelmingly mestizo" when the vast majority of whites arrived in puerto rico after 1860 and the USA annexed it in the 1890s, and brought with it its anti-miscegenation laws and culture? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.189.66.76 (talk) 20:31, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

Location

The map location gives no idea where this is - wtf

If you would bother to take one second (OK, may be one and one-half seconds) to click the image and look at it in enlarged form, you should be able to figure it out, assuming you know where the North American continent is located. Cresix (talk) 01:52, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

Puerto Rico vote for U.S. Statehood

This article must be updated in relation to the 2O12 Puerto Rico Plebiscite requesting the Statehood and rejecting the current Territorial Status.

The first question on the plebiscite asked voters whether they want to maintain the current commonwealth status under the territorial clause of the U.S. Constitution or whether they prefer a nonterritorial option. A second question on the plebiscite had three status options: statehood, independence or free association.

The result of the 2012 referendum is that 54% of the population voted to change the territorial status quo, and 61.3% of the population voted for the statehood. Puerto Rico vote for U.S. Statehood

Puerto Rico provided a clear electoral mandate rejecting the present form of territorial status and requested to the U.S. Congress to admitted Puerto Rico to be the 51st State of the United States of America on the November 6, 2012 Plebiscite.