Puerto Rico is located in the Caribbean Sea. Puerto Rico has been a

Commonwealth under the United States since July 25, 1952 when Governor

Muños proclaimed the new constitution. In the election of 1968, Governor

Ferre favored statehood for Puerto Rico. After his election there were many

unsuccessful attempts to make Puerto Rico into the 51st state. After more

than 30 years the question still stands. What should the status of Puerto

Rico be? There are three options for the status of Puerto Rico ("Puerto

One option for the status of Puerto Rico is to become the 51st state of

the United States of America. A lot of people disagree with this option.

Since currently Puerto Rico doesn't pay taxes and sixty percent of Puerto

Rico's citizens are classified as living at poverty, and then U.S. taxpayers

or employed citizens are worried that if Puerto Rico becomes a state that

their taxes will increase dramatically (Hamill 26). Already forty percent of

the people on the island get federal benefits (Buchanan 35). The

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico already costs mainland U.S. taxpayers over

$6 billion dollars each year. The state of Puerto Rico

introduced a bill which would declare Spanish to be the sole official

The third option is to become an independent nation. Other

independent since almost 100 years.

become a state or taking care of its own self and becoming an independent

the government ignored the peoples voices. One of the reasons why Puerto

country in the Caribbean Sea. That's why a lot of experts say that there will

to remain a Commonwealth because they say that if the island is good

One of them is for Puerto Rico to become a state. Second, is for Puerto

Another option is to remain a Commonwealth. Puerto Rico, after

independent nations have done well after the U.S. has given them a financial

was Spanish in the late 1800s. Then it was changed to English in the early

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