Greg Nash Puerto Rican voters picked Pablo José Hernández Rivera as their next resident commissioner in an election where ...

For the first time since 2000, the people of Puerto Rico have elected a resident commissioner (non-voting delegate) to Congress who opposes statehood for Puerto Rico and thinks we should focus on ...

Puerto Rico is a small Caribbean island with a solid cultural identity, its own Olympic representation, national anthem and a ...

Many journalists and political commentators have been pessimistic about the possibility of statehood for the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico ... moderate senators like Joe Manchin (D-W.V ...

greet voters The US territory of Puerto Rico has voted to ask Congress to make it America's 51st state. More than 97% of voters favoured attempting to join the US over becoming independent or ...

Puerto Rico’s fate remains in the hands of Congress, which has dithered over the question of statehood for far too long. The Council on Foreign Relations website has called Puerto Rico “a U.S ...