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    Jean Guerrero: Puerto Rico's future status should not be a pawn in political gameplay

    by Jean Guerrero, Los Angeles Times Apr 15, 2022 4 minutes
    The Puerto Rican and U.S. flags are seen in the Old Town district in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

    For Democrats who want to stop the right-wing assault on democracy, statehood for Puerto Rico can seem like a simple fix — one so enticing it may be easy to forget the will of the Puerto Rican people.

    As a Boricua journalist who covers the insurrectionist right and comes from a pro-statehood family, I'd love to see Puerto Rico become a state. But Puerto Rico's fate is not for any person stateside to dictate.

    Congress is considering two bills that aim to change Puerto Rico's status as a commonwealth, which has enabled decades of economic predation and devastation compounded by COVID-19 are just the latest example of neglect. The bills are the and the . Only the latter, co-sponsored by New York Reps. Nydia Velázquez and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is truly democratic.

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