I recently spoke with my son who lives near San Juan. They have their water and electric back, and their kids are in school. I asked him about this past spring’s plebiscite and how the PR people felt about statehood, independence, or continuing with the Commonwealth status. He said the majority preferred the status quo. The link below reports that Statehood won overwhelmingly, but with only 23% of the electorate voting. The rest stayed home, which has been a pattern in past elections, where, for example, 500,000 reported a none vote in protest.
Thanks. Glad things are slowly but surely returning to normal.
I’m not sure what they thing this will win them down there.
They will still have to come up with a state budget, pay down debt and do the sorts of things they’ve always done, only now as a state.
I’m not in favor of it. Do we really need another Socialist Worker’s Paradise, in the form of a state?
BTW: If I stepped on some toes with those comments, talk to me. You may have some good reasons for supporting it, if you do, and I’d like to here another side of it so that I can understand where folks are coming from who support it.