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Article: Puerto Rico: The Question of Statehood
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- August 28, 1987
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What The Post calls "toying with Puerto Rico" and "interfering in
the sensitive internal politics of Puerto Rico" {editorial, Aug. 7},
I call "the democratization of Puerto Rico."
The 3.2 million American citizens of Puerto Rico do not have the
right to vote for the president. And as The Post correctly points
out, there is an "anomaly" in the presidential selection process.
The "anomaly"-that Puerto Ricans participate in the candidate
selection process-is what we call the important participation that
Puerto Ricans, and all the mainland-born residing on the island, have
in the national political process. It is our only and very limited
national political power.
S.1182, which was ...