EE.UU. deberá responder reclamo de voto presidencial para boricuas (Puerto Ricans' "right" to vote)

El Nuevo Día ^ | 04/29/2009 | José A. Delgado

[pleasenoobama]

WASHINGTON - Estados Unidos deberá responder en dos meses la querella presentada por un abogado puertorriqueño ante la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) en reclamo del voto presidencial.

Santiago Cantón, director ejecutivo de la CIDH -que responde a la Organización de Estados Americanos (OEA)-, notificó al abogado Gregorio Igartúa que a partir del 22 de abril el gobierno de Estados Unidos tendrá dos meses para exponer sus puntos de vista.

Igartúa denunció en 2006 ante la CIDH el hecho de que los residentes de Puerto Rico no tienen derecho a votar por el presidente de Estados Unidos.

Cantón le envió una carta a Igartúa, con fecha del pasado 22 de abril, en la que le informó de que había pedido una respuesta a Estados Unidos. Pero advirtió que la petición de información ni siquiera significa que hayan admitido la querella.

“La solicitud de información no implica un juicio previo sobre la decisión que la Comisión puede adoptar respecto a la admisibilidad de la petición (hecha por Igartúa)”, indicó Cantón.

Los procesos de evaluación ante la CIDH -debido al alto número de casos que reciben-, suelen ser lentos. Todavía la CIDH no ha decidido qué hacer con otra denuncia presentada por el ex gobernador Pedro Rosselló.

Su petición de información, sin embargo, puede ser una de las primeras oportunidades para conocer la posición que le expresa el gobierno del presidente Barack Obama a la comunidad internacional en torno al futuro político de Puerto Rico.

[pleasenoobama]

Now the Puerto Ricans want a vote too! When will the madness stop?! Let's just hope the liberal activist judges don't rule against America.

[Don Corleone]

They would loose their tax exemptions...don’t think that they want that.

[szweig]

P.R. ain’t a state. Case dismissed.

[mgc1122]

Time for Puerto Rico to pick statehood or take a hike.

[Madistan]

Have we gone bilingual? What’s with the Spanish crap on my web browser?

[tx_eggman]

Press 1 For English

[envisio]

AH DANG.

Its bad enough I gotta press “1” at the bank machine. Now I gotta do it online too.......

[Red Badger]

Careful, it might have swine flu!..................

[skinkinthegrass]

P.R. ain’t a state. Case dismissed.

agree.
no it ain't...but, that don't stop Washington District of Columbia from get a real voting vote....
btw....WY, got an additional House Seat (to offset, the Illegal Washington, DC seat.)
We don't need no stinkin' U.S. Constitution.
"Why, b/c Obambi said so... "

"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators." - P. J. O'Rourke
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"There are two sets of rules. One set for the rulers and another for the rest of us." —Richard Yancey, former IRS tax collector

[pleasenoobama]

Lo siento, I couldn’t find an article en inglés. Jeez.

[AreaMan]

Here's the gist of it:

Some whiner named Gregorio Igartúa is bitching to a "human rights" commission that the Ricans can't vote for the U.S. President.
Whaaa...whaaa, my p***y hurts.

Igartúa denunció en 2006 ante la CIDH el hecho de que los residentes de Puerto Rico no tienen derecho a votar por el presidente de Estados Unidos.

Mira Sr. Igartua, para de comer mierda y conformarse con ser ciudadano de los Estados Unidos.

[King of Florida]

P.R. ain’t a state. Case dismissed.

In short, yes. Puerto Ricans have had the chance to opt for statehood (or independence) in plebiscites, but have chosen to stick with commonwealth status. They have knowingly waived their right to vote for president.

[tumblindice]

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[the long march]

And since when is Free Republic a spanish language zone? Fer cryin out loud get a brain

[the long march]

Then either translate it or don’t post it

[pleasenoobama]

I gave a very brief English summary, and I think it’s pretty obvious from the title that the main article is in Spanish. I will refrain from posting Spanish language articles in the future, but I don’t feel as if this is something for freepers to get indignant about.

[kevkrom]

Babelfish translation (FWIW):

WASHINGTON - the United States will have to respond in two months the complaint presented/displayed by a Puerto Rican lawyer before the Inter-American Commission of Human rights (CIDH) in reclamation of the presidential vote. Santiago Corner, executive director of the CIDH - that responds to the Organization of American Estados (OAS) -, notified to the lawyer Gregorio Igartúa who from the 22 of April the government of the United States will be two days old to set out his points of view. Igartúa denounced in 2006 before the CIDH the fact that the residents of Puerto Rico do not have right to vote by the president of the United States. Corner sent a letter to him to Igartúa, on the past 22 of April, in that it informed to him into which it had requested an answer to the United States. But it noticed that the request for information not even means that they have admitted the complaint. “The information request does not imply a previous judgment on the decision that the Commission can adopt with respect to the admissibility of the request (done by Igartúa)”, it indicated Corner. The processes of evaluation before the CIDH - due to the high number of cases that receive, usually they are slow. Still the CIDH has not decided what to do with another denunciation presented/displayed by ex- governor Pedro Rosselló. Its request for information, nevertheless, can be one of the first opportunities to know the position that expresses the government to him of president Barack Obama to the international community around politician of Puerto Rico the future.