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Article: WHAT'S AHEAD FOR PUERTO RICO? Puerto Rican political status junkies continue to bicker over the results of the December 13, 1998 plebiscite, while the mass of the population continues to go on about its business, struggling to make a living, burdened by an inefficient, and inattentive government:.
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- February 1, 1999
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There had been strong psychological pressure to "do something" last year about Puerto Rico's unresolved political relationship with the United States, since 1998 marked the 100th anniversary of the U.S. military takeover of the island from Spain. However, Puerto Rico remained a colony (and later autonomous territory) of Spain for more than 400 years, and the current U.S.-Puerto Rico relationship could well continue indefinitely, despite the anxiety of some here to "resolve" it; U.S. statehood, supported by the incumbent New Progressive Party (NPP), is also backed in the U.S. Congress by Rep. Don Young (R.-Alaska), who last year authored a statehood-leaning bill that ...
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