Until the Boricua speak English as their FIRST language, such a show of "loyalty" to Uncle Sugar will be interpreted as another fiesta.
Nevertheless, I hope you guys have a good time down there and that you take time to remember those of your fellow islanders who are serving in the armed forces. That you can do in any language, including Carib Spanish. :-)
It's a token celebration for the tourists. It's stateside tourists that populate the cruise ships that dock in 'Old San Juan' during the winter and spring and the hotels all-year-round.
Snub the 'Independence Day' celebration now and the local economy will pay a price a thousand times that paltry $50,000, they're spending on their celebration, in lost tourism revenues in the years to come.
The dirty little secret that Mayor Santini and all of the other politicians in Puerto Rico are trying to keep is that the majority of the 4 million residents of Puerto Rico are Americans in name only. Our 'Independence Day' celebration means nothing to them, they only care about the $17 billion dollars in cash that they'll get from us U.S. Taxpayers this year, the thousands of federal government and private sector jobs that have been hijacked to the island, the billions in federal corporate income taxes that Puerto Rican subsidiaries of U.S. corporations can avoid, each year, by pretending to be FOREIGN corporations on their tax returns, FOODSTAMPS, WELFARE, etc., etc., ad infinitum.
Adorno, just so we're clear about this before you start your rant about how any U.S. Taxpayer that doesn't want to have their pockets picked by the 4 million, ungrateful, freeloaders on the island of Puerto Rico anymore must hate or dislike Puerto Ricans, that doesn't have anything to do with it.
We, the U.S. Taxpayers, are tired of having our pockets picked by everyone that's picking them and we want it all stopped.