+5 Yes, Puerto Rico is widely considered a colony—or often described as the world’s oldest colony—due to its status as an unincorporated U.S. territory. While residents are U.S. citizens, they lack voting representation in Congress, cannot vote for president,

  • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    18 hours ago

    PR should get to decide if they want to join this clusterfuck or not. The bare minimum the US should do is allow PR to join if they want to, and guarantee military support if PR asks for it.

    • hector@lemmy.today
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      17 hours ago

      “Should” is neither here nor there.

      1. they will not let puerto rico be independent.
      2. PR would get treated better as a State
      3. The republicans will not admit PR as a State right now, unless they could be sure their people would be elected there.

      I don’t know what you mean by military support. Are you saying if they are allowed to go independent? They won’t, there is zero chance they will be independent.