On the other hand, emancipation refers to freeing Puerto Rico from its colonial status, a concept that encompasses the nation's broader desire for self-determination and political equality.

Puerto Rico is a political paradox: part of the United States but distinct from it, enjoying citizenship but lacking full political representation, and infused with its own brand of nationalism ...

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Conferees, who came from all over the Midwest, discussed a bill passed March 4 by Congress that could determine the island’s constitutional status. The bill requires that a referendum be held in ...

This November, the U.S. citizens of Puerto Rico ... Rican political leaders debated whether the island should become an equal province of Spain or instead achieve a constitutional status they ...

Puerto Ricans will elect a new governor on Tuesday. For the first time in decades, an upstart political movement ... voters that this debate about whether Puerto Rico should become a state or ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Plans to hold a nonbinding referendum on Puerto Rico’s political status came under scrutiny Wednesday for its multimillion-dollar cost as election officials announced ...

The neighborhood, nestled within the lush greenery of Puerto Rico’s southeast ... it would punt decisions over the island’s political status to a new constitutional assembly; PD expresses ...