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Approximately 75,000 persons were listed as under political police surveillance. Historians and critics found that the massive surveillance apparatus was directed primarily against Puerto Rico's independence movement. As a result, many independence supporters moved to the Popular Democratic Party to support its opposition to statehood. [71]
Political party: Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP) Advocacy groups: Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, [124] Movimiento Independentista Nacional Hostosiano [125] (MINH), Socialist Front (FS), Movimiento Puertorriqueño Reunificacionista con España (MPRE) Militant organization: Boricua Popular Army (Macheteros), Cadets of the Republic
Puerto Rico, which has about 3.3 million people and high rates of poverty, became a U.S. territory in 1898. Activists have campaigned for greater self-determination including statehood for decades.
However, Puerto Rico's governing New Progressive Party praised the island's vote for statehood, in which over half of the electorate cast a vote. The option for statehood achieved a majority of the vote with 540,635 votes, followed by independence with 293,224 votes, and independence with free association with 116,834 votes.
Puerto Rico will hold a referendum on Nov. 5 to determine whether the island should become a U.S. state, a new form of self-government, or remain a territory, with the result potentially impacting ...
This became evident in 2015 during the Obama administration, when Puerto Rico said it was unable to pay its $70 billion public debt, prompting Congress to create the 2016 Promesa law, because U.S ...
Flag of Puerto Rico. The political movement for Puerto Rican Independence (Lucha por la Independencia Puertorriqueña) has existed since the mid-19th century and has advocated independence of the island of Puerto Rico, in varying degrees, from Spain (in the 19th century) or the United States (from 1898 to the present day).
This year’s election is unlike any other in the 76 years since the U.S. began allowing Puerto Ricans to vote for their governor. Puerto Rico Might Elect Its First Pro-Independence Governor Skip ...