Why Is Puerto Rico Broken
Why Puerto Ricans are broken? Nowadays, where rumors that Puerto Rico’s government is going to close, because the debt of 72 billion dollars that Puerto Ricans can not pay and a possible implementation of a control board that could make decisions without any opinion from the governor in turn democratically elected, raises the question: Why Puerto Rico is broke? The control board purpose is to help Puerto Rico pay the debt, rather to solve the economic crisis. Where is constitutional stopping the primary services for the people (health, security and education), to pay the debt and by, being a colony or in a high English, “Commonwealth”, impairs the territory because it can not go to a bankruptcy since Puerto Rico is not a state.
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Puerto Rico is a colony, therefore, is full of slaves of capitalism, consumerism, ignorance: Puerto Ricans are slaves of the imperialist, United States, that corrupts its people, experiment with them and use them as cannons of war. It all began when Luis Muñoz Marín and Harry Truman, president of the United States in 1952, ("Harry S. Truman", 2014), created the commonwealth in that year ("Establecimiento del Estado Libre Asociado", …show more content…
Puerto Rico moved from the coffee yield to sugar production to clothe manufacturing to petrochemical industries to pharmaceutical factories, all that in about 200 years. Before the United States possessed Puerto Rico, the island was property of Castilla, but in Spain there were internal conflicts so they gave Puerto Rico autonomy, which did not last, but due to that wars in Spain, Puerto Rico cultivated the land and, one could say that Puerto Rico was independent from Spain in terms of food, (because of the wars of Spain, Spain kinda forgot their colonies). Almost all food that was consumed by Puerto Ricans of 1898 were from Puerto Rico. Then came the United States and changed the economy to a Sugar based one. Almost all farmland was cultivated with sugarcane, and that brought famine as a result. Then there was necessity of clothing so United
Puerto Rico is a colony, therefore, is full of slaves of capitalism, consumerism, ignorance: Puerto Ricans are slaves of the imperialist, United States, that corrupts its people, experiment with them and use them as cannons of war. It all began when Luis Muñoz Marín and Harry Truman, president of the United States in 1952, ("Harry S. Truman", 2014), created the commonwealth in that year ("Establecimiento del Estado Libre Asociado", …show more content…
Puerto Rico moved from the coffee yield to sugar production to clothe manufacturing to petrochemical industries to pharmaceutical factories, all that in about 200 years. Before the United States possessed Puerto Rico, the island was property of Castilla, but in Spain there were internal conflicts so they gave Puerto Rico autonomy, which did not last, but due to that wars in Spain, Puerto Rico cultivated the land and, one could say that Puerto Rico was independent from Spain in terms of food, (because of the wars of Spain, Spain kinda forgot their colonies). Almost all food that was consumed by Puerto Ricans of 1898 were from Puerto Rico. Then came the United States and changed the economy to a Sugar based one. Almost all farmland was cultivated with sugarcane, and that brought famine as a result. Then there was necessity of clothing so United