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Puerto Rico is not a colony of the Unites States. It never was.
It’s time to grant Puerto Rico total independence and no longer consider them citizens of the United States, it’s a far off island with a separate history, culture and language.
Let Puerto Rico take care of her citizens, time to cut the cord. The United States will be better off.
The PNP (Rosello’s party, the island GOP equivalent) is traditionally the pro-statehood party.
However, it has been more-or-less captured by what we would call “Rinos”, who are moving away from statehood. The current head of the party supports Clinton for president. This is what Rosello is talking about.
The Democratic party equivalent on the island has traditionally supported the status quo, territorial status. However, since the governor from that party has been charged with federal elections crimes, he has suddenly become a supporter of independence, and the PNP (pro-statehood GOP equivalent) has suddenly moved to the center to take up the slack politically. Independence is a niche view, so evidently the PNP believes it can make political hay by trying to straddle the fence, being for both statehood and/or status quo. This is Rosello’s complaint, that his party is leaving him behind. He wants them to stand for what they stand for.
His remarks about a colonial mentality among the people should be seen in context of his belief that the best cure for this is full statehood. The colonial elite he is complaining about is the island’s own elite.
Did I get it right, cll?