My ‘effing gawd!! … Don’t they ever learn? The mighty, imperialistic US of A doesn’t want Puerto Rico to be a state!! F-Idiots … not now, not ever!! Why now? Why during the pandemic? Don’t you know “HE” doesn’t want Puerto Rico? Why humiliate the island to this idiotic ‘Orange Buffoon‘? … “Governor Wanda Vázquez says, “It’s never too late to be treated as equals.” All I can do (with a tired sigh) is to quote artist and educator Pablo Delano, “Another chapter in the Chronicles of the Old Colony …”
Dánica Coto (AP) reports on yet another nonbindingstatehood referendum in Puerto Rico. Just speaking for myself (IR—not for the Repeating Islands team): When you get a bit older, it feels like a déjà vu repeated over and over like those recurring nightmares you get when you have a fever. Governor Wanda Vázquez says, “It’s never too late to be treated as equals.”All I can do (with a tired sigh) is to quote artist and educator Pablo Delano, “Another chapter in the Chronicles of the Old Colony…” [Well, it seems like I’ve read that chapter quite a few times.]
Gov. Wanda Vázquez announced on Saturday that she will hold a nonbinding referendum in November to decide whether Puerto Rico should become a U.S. state, a move that comes amid growing disillusion with the island’s U.S. territorial status.
For the first time in the island’s history, the referendum…