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The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Spanish: "Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico", IPA [estaðo libɾe asosjaðo ðe pweɾto riko]), also Porto Rico (archaic) and more commonly Puerto Rico, is a United States unincorporated territory with Commonwealth status located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands; approximately two-thousand kilometers (2,000 km; 1,280 miles) off the coast of Florida (the nearest of the mainland United States). The archipelago of Puerto Rico includes the main island of Puerto Rico, the smallest of the Greater Antilles, and a number of smaller islands and keys, the largest of which are Mona, Vieques, and Culebra. Puerto Ricans sometimes refer to their island as Borikén, or the Spanish variant Borinquen, a name for the island used by indigenous Taíno people. The current term boricua derives from the Taíno name for the island, and is commonly used to identify oneself as Puerto Rican.

 

 

 

 

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Even though all people born in Puerto Rico are U.S. citizens, the nature of Puerto Rico's political relationship with the United States is the subject of ongoing debate in the island, the United States Congress, and the United Nations. Those who support maintaining the status quo (i.e., Commonwealth status) insist that upon attaining this status, Puerto Rico entered into a voluntary association with the U.S. "in the nature of a compact", but according to a President's Task Force report, Puerto Rico is an unincorporated organized territory of the United States, subject to the plenary powers of the U.S. Congress and with the "right to establish a constitution for the internal administration of government and on matters of purely local concern".

 

 

LINKS and REFERENCE

  1. CIA - The World Factbook - Puerto Rico accessed on November 13, 2006.

  2. United Nations special decolonization committee- Puerto Rico.

  3. report accessed on April 9, 2007

  4. Iñigo Abbad y Lasierra. Historia Geográfica, Civil y Natural de la Isla de San Juan Bautista de Puerto Rico.

  5. Vieques Island - What lies beneath.

  6. Brief Chronology of Puerto Rico.

  7. Presently, Puerto Ricans are also known as Boricuas, or people from Borinquen.

  8. Treaty of Paris (1898)

  9. García, Marvin. Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos. National-Louis University.

  10. Latino/a Education Network Service, retrieved 5 February 2007

  11. Anglelo Falcón, "Atlas of Stateside Puerto Ricans", Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration, published 6 December 2004, retrieved 5 February 2007

  12. Act of July 3, 1950, Ch. 446, 64 Stat. 319.

  13. Constitution of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico - in Spanish (original).

  14. Constitution of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico - in English (translation).

  15. Elevations and Distances in the United States. U.S Geological Survey 

  16. Los Lagos de Puerto Rico (Spanish)

  17. Island Directory.

  18. Puerto Rico DP-1. Profile of General Demographic Characteristics: 2000.

  19. Martínez Cruzado, Juan C. (2002). The Use of Mitochondrial DNA to Discover Pre-Columbian Migrations to the Caribbean:Results for Puerto Rico and Expectations for the Dominican Republic. KACIKE: The Journal of Caribbean Amerindian History and Anthropology [On-line Journal], Special Issue, Lynne Guitar, Ed. Available at: http://www.kacike.org/MartinezEnglish.pdf [Date of access: 25 September, 2006]

  20. Fundación Príncipe de Asturias

  21. Rules of the House of Representatives

  22. LinktoPR.com - Fundación de los Pueblos.

  23. For the complete statistics regarding these plebiscites please refer to Elections in Puerto Rico:Results.

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  25. PPD Party Resolution #2006-02 

  26. PRLDEF.

  27. U.S. Census - Median Family Income.

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  29. Rodríguez, Magdalys. "No hubo acuerdo y el gobierno amaneció cerrado", El Nuevo Día. Retrieved on 2006-05-01. (Spanish)

  30. Miguel Díaz Román. "Incierto el impacto del nuevo tributo", El Nuevo Día, 2006-11-15

  31. BBC Sports - Olympics 2004.

 

 

 

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