statehood

By Cesar Conda and Thomas Trask The daring capture of Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro demonstrated the lengths to which the White House will go to execute on its vision of ensuring American security and shaping the country’s role in the Western Hemisphere. Beyond ending Maduro’s reign, the operation sent a message to the rest of […]

Election Day in Puerto Rico Could Usher in Statehood It's Election Day and Americans are heading to the polls today. And while the next President of the United States will be voted into office tonight, there is another huge vote going down in Puerto Rico. Statehood...READ MORE   FL Rep. Carolina Amesty: "It’s Election Day. […]

It's Election Day and Americans are heading to the polls today. And while the next President of the United States will be voted into office tonight, there is another huge vote going down in Puerto Rico—Statehood. Puerto Rico will hold its 7th Plebiscite vote today and from the looks of it, voters on the island […]

This vote could see the United States expanding to 51 states with Puerto Rico, and a new poll indicates that many Americans support it.

On November 5th, citizens of the island will answer the Puerto Rico political status plebiscites, choosing statehood, independence, or sovereignty in free association with the U.S.

Florida Republicans on Sunday night blasted a comedian's "classless" Puerto Rico joke as "racist",  prompted by his comments at former President Donald Trump's rally at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. The conservative backlash is directed at comedian Tony Hinchcliffe—who's branded himself as a comedian who will "never apologize" for a joke—for telling the 20,000 Trump rally […]

For years, the ongoing and deadly drug trade has been glamorized in many social circles, and on television, as Netflix and other entertainment channels have highlighted the intricacies of the drug world, including how islands like Puerto Rico are at the heart of the narcotics transit world and could play a pivotal role in U.S. […]

Despite a congressional setback that killed a bill supporting Puerto Rican statehood, Florida man Sen. Marco Rubio's continued advocacy for the island's rights has prompted state legislators to weigh in on the issue through the lens of veterans' needs—a concern they often revisit. Puerto Rico has been a U.S. Territory for well over a century, […]

Florida's Panic Button Law Sparks Debate on Future School Security: Should They Be 'Built Like Military Bases?' As school shootings, dead students, and murdered educators become sickeningly more commonplace, a dark new trend has emerged to protect the most vulnerable: panic buttons on teachers...READ MORE Sen. Marco Rubio: "Since March, Biden and Kamala Harris have […]

TALLAHASSEE, FL—A measure that would force Congress to recognize Puerto Rico as a state—if that's what the islanders vote for on November 5th—is working its way through Washington, D.C. as Floridian support for the potential 51st state in America grows. This is Congress's most recent attempt at pushing through the legislation, entitled the "Puerto Rico […]

TALLAHASSEE, FL— On general Election Day   Puerto Rico will hold its seventh plebiscite in which they ask for statehood, as the majority has decided in the last two votes -- 2017 and 2020. The vote is important because it will continue creating pressure on Congress to act and treat Puerto Ricans as equals. The seventh […]

Puerto Rican officials have uncovered and reported various Russian attempts to allegedly undermine the island’s democratic processes.  US Shadow Representative Roberto Lefranc Fortuño originally flagged Russia’s surreptitious misinformation campaign against Puerto Rico.  According to Representative Fortuño, misleading propaganda produced by Russia’s state-run ‘Russian Television’ channel has flooded Puerto Rican media platforms in recent weeks.  “I […]

New polling from The Puerto Rico Statehood Council surveyed one thousand registered Puerto Rican voters and found some interesting results. Those results are not favorable for Democrats going into the 2022 midterms. According to the results, only 23 percent of Puerto Ricans believe the United States is moving in the right direction (7% strongly right […]

By Luis Figueroa While it seems like the 2020 elections just ended, the midterm election campaigning will ramp up over the course of the summer and into the fall, particularly given that control of both chambers of Congress are up for grabs. One of the most competitive races in the country will be here in […]

The notion of making Puerto Rico the 51st state of the union is very popular among both Republican and Democratic lawmakers, but will ever come to pass, even as President Donald Trump opposes the idea?