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Transcript: POLITICAL STATUS OF PUERTO RICO:CARLOS I. GORRIN PERALTA
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- Congressional Testimony
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- March 22, 2007
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Congressional Testimony
03-22-2007
Statement of Carlos I. Gorrin Peralta Professor Puerto Rico`s Inter-American
University School of Law Committee on House Natural Resources Subcommittee
on Insular Affairs March 22, 2007 Good morning, Madam Chairwoman and members
of this Subcommittee. Thank you for the invitation to share with you my
perspective regarding the two bills under consideration. I will first outline
some historical and legal concepts regarding the relations between Puerto
Rico and the United States, as necessary background for my analysis of
the two measures. Puerto Rico is a colony of the United States. It has
been an unincorporated territory of the United States since the relation
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