Santorum to Puerto Rico: Speak English if you want statehood

[Lost-in-FL]

98. That's the biggest load I have ever heard.

As a matter of fact, my nephew currently goes to an english only 'charter' school in Puerto Rico and will be graduating in June. I was born and raised there and my parents were dirt poor. We never had a chance at getting a private school education. I moved from PR at the age of 23 years in search of employment and opportunities. Most of my English I learn in the PR public school system and publicly funded state university (Recinto Universitario de Mayagüez-University of Puerto Rico). My brother, a PR graduate with a PhD in Medical Microbiology and now professor at a PR Medical school, has never set foot in the US for longer than 2 weeks and he speaks English fluently.


The only reason why there are no corporate tax breaks for companies to encourage low unemployment numbers any longer is because the pro-statehood governor at the time, Carlos Romero Barceló, thought it was a great idea to choke PR's economy with the intention of forcing Puertorricans to plead for statehood.

Since you mentioned Luis Muñoz Marín, who by the way has little to do with removing English from public schools, he was the one person responsible for bringing a democratically elected governor to PR. Prior to formal elections, PR was ran like Iraq shortly after the invasion. Washington would name a general or a 'Bremmer' type big cheese to command the island from an office somewhere in Washington.

You can learn more about the colonial relationship between PR and the USA through this book by a real historian and law professor and expert on PR-US relations in America's Colony. It is a well researched book with a very useful bibliography. http://books.google.com/books/about/America_s_colony.html?id=pKqVpqGVsJYC