Puerto Rico has held a series of nonbonding votes on its relationship with the U.S., most recently in 2020 in which more than half of voters said the island should be granted statehood.

Importantly, statehood for Puerto Rico doesn’t need to be coupled with D.C. statehood – a point of apprehension for some Republicans who view the issues as inseparable.

Puerto Ricans have been demanding decolonization for a very long time. Before the United States annexed Puerto Rico in 1898 at the end of the Spanish-American War, the island was a colony of Spain.

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