Should Congress Impose Direct Rule over Puerto Rico?

americanthinker.com ^ | 4/10/2018 | Ojel L. Rodriguez

[rktman]

For the past few weeks, Puerto Rico has been subjected to a multitude of actions by our political class and the oversight board related to the handling of our current debt and fiscal crisis that would make left-wingers such as Nicolás Maduro proud. The actions being undertaken are a response to the current policy clash between the government of Ricardo Rossello and the Fiscal and Oversight Management Board about the host of fiscal plans to be adopted by the commonwealth. As the island heads to its next fiscal year, and the island is still recovering from the disaster of Hurricane Maria, the actions undertaken raise an important question. Does the obvious problem in governance in the commonwealth require an extreme action like repealing Law 600 and Congress imposing direct rule?

[adorno]

Cuba would love to have them.

So would Russia and China.

[gleeaikin]

Marxist/Leninist “progressives” I have spoken with on the mainland insist that PR wants independence even though it is only a small percentage that actually votes for independence. Of course kicking out the military and the Vieques turmoil is exactly the result that makes Russia/Putin happy. So by all means lets reward the left wing by dumping PR into the laps of Russia/China/Cuba. Please note, not all “progressives” like the Putin agenda, etc. There are definite splits and struggles occurring over that right now within the more left oriented parties.

[elpadre]

Forty plus years ago the Puerto Ricans I got to know were not liberal/progressives. Many were veterans of the Armed Forces, some worked for US companies. At that time PR had the only majority middle class among all Hispanic countries (PR is a US territory). Regardless of what the liberal/communist/independista party say, a referendum during my three years there could not muster even 1% of the vote. The Republicans preferred Statehood. Most (Dems and all others) preferred being a territory.