Fighting for Paradise: Puerto Rico’s Future | CBS Reports

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[@Labronski_82]

Questions why is statehood considered consumption of cultural? When businesses can be found in various countries. NAFTA and educational investments could very helpful to Puerto Rico as American territory

[@FranciscoSanchez-pe7nm]

In this documentary they put Puerto Rico as if they were a third world country. They paint a lie about who we are.

[@elusivelight3766]

I love Puerto Rico. 🇵🇷

[@Digoamipersona888]

---- "CÓMO PUERTORRIQUEÑOS 🇪🇸🇵🇷 TENEMOS LA RESPONSABILIDAD, EL DERECHO Y LA OBLIGACIÓN DE CONTINUAR LUCHANDO, DEFENDIENDO Y PRÓTESTANDO POR NUESTRA CULTURA, DIGNIDAD, IGUALDAD, MORALIDAD, IDENTITAD, RESPETO Y LIBERTAD PATRIÓTICA DE NUESTRA TIERRA QUERIDA, LÍBRE Y SOBERANA." ---- ¡PÁL CARAJO LA junta físcal, LA junta estatal Y LA junta federal; JUNTO CON LOS MALDITOS yanquís Y LOS MALDITOS vende patria DE NUESTRA QUERIDA ISLA, LÍBRE Y SOBERANA! ----"YA... ES HORA DE LEVANTAR LOS MACHETES EN MANO; CONTRA LOS MALDITOS yanquís Y LOS MALDITOS vende patria DE NUESTRA PATRIA QUERIDA, LIBRE Y SOBERANA." ---- ¡SEGUIREMOS EN RESISTENCIA! ---- ¡VIVA LA LUCHA ANTI-IMPERIALISTA! ---- "NO HAY TRIUNFO SÍN LUCHA, NÍ LUCHA SÍN SACRIFICIO." ---- "PUERTORRIQUEÑO DESPIERTA Y DEFIENDE TU PATRIA...✊⚔️✊⚔️✊⚔️." ---- ¡QUÉ VIVA LA MADRE PATRIA ESPAÑA Y LATINOAMÉRICA UNIDA CÓMO HERMANOS QUE SOMOS... 🇵🇷 🇭🇹 🇩🇴 🇨🇺 🇨🇱 🇦🇷 🇻🇪 🇨🇷 🇺🇾 🇬🇹 🇵🇪 🇯🇲 🇦🇬 🇵🇭 🇵🇦 🇦🇼 🇬🇾 🇹🇹 🇪🇺 🇨🇬 🇵🇾 🇪🇨 🇭🇳 🇲🇽 🇨🇴 🇮🇨 🇧🇴 🇧🇷 🇪🇸⏰💣⚔️📜 🌄 🏝️ 🌎...! ¡OREMOS POR NUESTRA LIBERTA Y SEBERANIA! 😇🙏 🌱🏝️🗡 ---- ¡SALMO 20... AMÉM, AMÉN Y AMÉM...!

[@Digoamipersona888]

@Omar Gonzalez Perez---- "CÓMO PUERTORRIQUEÑOS 🇪🇸🇵🇷 TENEMOS LA RESPONSABILIDAD, EL DERECHO Y LA OBLIGACIÓN DE CONTINUAR LUCHANDO, DEFENDIENDO Y PRÓTESTANDO POR NUESTRA CULTURA, DIGNIDAD, IGUALDAD, MORALIDAD, IDENTITAD, RESPETO Y LIBERTAD PATRIÓTICA DE NUESTRA TIERRA QUERIDA, LÍBRE Y SOBERANA." ---- ¡PÁL CARAJO LA junta físcal, LA junta estatal Y LA junta federal; JUNTO CON LOS MALDITOS yanquís Y LOS MALDITOS vende patria DE NUESTRA QUERIDA ISLA, LÍBRE Y SOBERANA! ----"YA... ES HORA DE LEVANTAR LOS MACHETES EN MANO; CONTRA LOS MALDITOS yanquís Y LOS MALDITOS vende patria DE NUESTRA PATRIA QUERIDA, LIBRE Y SOBERANA." ---- ¡SEGUIREMOS EN RESISTENCIA! ---- ¡VIVA LA LUCHA ANTI-IMPERIALISTA! ---- "NO HAY TRIUNFO SÍN LUCHA, NÍ LUCHA SÍN SACRIFICIO." ---- "PUERTORRIQUEÑO DESPIERTA Y DEFIENDE TU PATRIA...✊⚔️✊⚔️✊⚔️." ---- ¡QUÉ VIVA LA MADRE PATRIA ESPAÑA Y LATINOAMÉRICA UNIDA CÓMO HERMANOS QUE SOMOS... 🇵🇷 🇭🇹 🇩🇴 🇨🇺 🇨🇱 🇦🇷 🇻🇪 🇨🇷 🇺🇾 🇬🇹 🇵🇪 🇯🇲 🇦🇬 🇵🇭 🇵🇦 🇦🇼 🇬🇾 🇹🇹 🇪🇺 🇨🇬 🇵🇾 🇪🇨 🇭🇳 🇲🇽 🇨🇴 🇮🇨 🇧🇴 🇧🇷 🇪🇸⏰💣⚔️📜 🌄 🏝️ 🌎...! ¡OREMOS POR NUESTRA LIBERTA Y SEBERANIA! 😇🙏 🌱🏝️🗡 ---- ¡SALMO 20... AMÉM, AMÉN Y AMÉM...!

[@1945socorro]

It really hurts, to see a beautiful and kind people with no power over their own land.

[@melvinnudelman8782]

Imagine yourself Native American, living in ghetto squalor

[@wakandianCrimeMatters-co2ur]

who? the spanish who killed the natives and moved into puerto rico and now complain about being colonized by america?

[@jasonandniko164]

@melvin. You say that like American Indians are treated badly or forced to live in certain areas. They have the exact same rights and opportunities as any American citizen. They’re not forced to live in the tax free reservations that the American Indians govern themselves.

[@Radrook353]

That is what they have chosen and continue to choose even now.

[@Pochacco_mm2.sanrio]

@@Radrook353what’s lil bro yapping about

[@maidinmanhattan7820]

I love my Puerto Rico 🇵🇷

[@willr2189]

I'm Puerto Rican by blood and I have family from both sides from my parents living in Puerto Rico and mainland United States. Making Puerto Rico a state isn't going to change if you don't take away insular cases that utilizes anglo saxon principles, the control of our budget, provide fair taxes for Puerto Ricans, our land, our right to vote, benefits that mainland American people recieve we should receive on the island like Medicare, pardon on the debt or atleast a fair payment amount, and much more issues that are happening today. Most importantly you got to remove the corruption of government from both the US Congress and in Puerto Rico because this is going om for 100+ years and we're sick of it.

[@kh9242]

Can you define or post the source of precisely what "Anglo Saxon principles" are? The statement makes it sound as if 5th century Germanic people moving to Puerto Rico.

[@banshee24full]

Need to change the government of PR to republican no more democrats

[@easyenetwork2023]

I agree that you deserve statehood and more rights. Just sad you cannot vote for President when you are a territory.

[@easyenetwork2023]

Spanish is the official language of Puerto Rico, right? I think people forget that if the US had not taken over, you might have less rights though also.

[@ivanojeda1691]

​@@easyenetwork2023 spanish and english

[@maribellel1487]

My beautiful island, my Puerto Rico 🇵🇷!😢

[@agueybana79]

She made great questions to Pierluisi and he had no answers....she nailed him and he had no answers and could not prove how Statehood will change PR's economic situation.

[@joemorgan2001]

More solutions for the pr people are the only answer. Only by creating a set of industries for pr by pr will the people of pr truly be free.

[@adiaz9201]

That’s idiotic, how will statehood favor Puerto Rico? Just look at all the states. Puerto Rico will have two senators and 6 congressmen representing them in Washington. Plus more benefits will come to the island. Make no mistake about it, statehood of the status quo is way better than independence. And if you doubt, just go to our neighboring islands who have better resources than we do. I guarantee corruption and poverty will destroy the island. Just look at the history of Puerto Rico before the United States took them over. I will like for whoever is declaring independence, to outline everything that can happen for Puerto Rico in terms of benefits for the people of Puerto Rico. Thank god the majority know the real deal. The last peblecite 52% wanted statehood and 48% wanted the status quo. Only 8 percent wanted statehood. People know the truth, independence will never ever win!

[@tmelendezmia]

Totally agree! Totally disillusioned with someone that says 'we only need to convince fifty plus one, but I admit that parliamentary rules require 60'. Well, do you have to convince only 51 or 60? This, is how politicians talk when they have no answers. He says, 'How come we are citizens of the most democratic nation in the world,, yet we don't vote for the President, yet we have no voting representation in congress. "It makes no sense". Really? 🤔Either the Gov is an idealistic teen or this rhetoric guides his political power. Because that Superpower called the US doesnt want us! It's like going after the person you're in love with, if after a while they haven't say yes, they don't want you! Otherwise, it would have been done already. Flash to the future 25 yrs from now; Puerto Rico celebrates another Plebiscite!

[@chinchanchou]

We will come back to spain vote to retorno with SPAIN no somos gringos SOMOS HISPANOS

[@VicKnowsLaw]

@@chinchanchou Latino ***

[@starkdragon243]

Since Hawaii became a state, Hawaiians have been pushed out and it’s become the most expensive state to live in.

[@ESGinel]

Que mejor que ser libres.Es como ser dueño de tu casa.Donde solo tu mandas.Territorio es ser exclavo y ser Estado ya no puedes ser tu,eres de otro.

[@adiaz9201]

@@ESGinel cual es el plan si se asen independiente? Porque islas mas grande son independiente y son mas pobre que Puerto Rico. Mira a los Dominicanos. Ellos tomarian tener lo que tenemos con los USA. Pienaen buen mi gente

[@jorgechamoro597]

@@adiaz9201 tambien como hay más islas pequeñas que hacen mejor, si quieres ejemplo busca a Singapur. La República Dominicana aunque más pobre ahora, está creciendo económicamente más rápido que PR. Tiene más turismo que PR, y es la economía que más a crecido de todo el caribe en y centro America en los últimos años.

[@ESGinel]

Angel Di×as,PR es pobre por los corruptos todo se lo. han vendido.Ademas agarran prestamos y hacen cualquier pequeñes y lo demas se lo malvaratan y luego tienen que pagar el doble o el triple por esos prestamos.igual con todo lo que importan.Todo lo derrollan.

[@adiaz9201]

@@jorgechamoro597 la republica Dominicana? Ay hay mas pobresa y corruption. Porque crees que se van a Puerto Rico? Y a los USA? Y aun asi Puerto Rico no tiene los recursos para sustenerse como ellos. Nueba York tiene mas de 2 milliones de dominicanos buscando un mejor futuro. No crean la propaganda. La Republica esta bueno para el que tiene dinero. Haiti tiene mas recursos que Puerto Rico y aun asi son pobre tampien. Yo fui a la republica dominicana, y asia Haiti y vi lo pobre que es. Que tiene Puerto Rico? Cual es el plan para la independencia? No hagan un error. O los vere en yola asia las islas virgenes.

[@ec6443]

So the American government criticize England about India and Australia but USA is doing the same thing with Puerto Rico and Guam. Double standard.

[@dariusblakey9061]

Majority of Guam and Puerto Rico wants to say in the us

[@pyropapi2470]

@@dariusblakey9061 that’s a lie

[@pgum123gonowplayread4]

@@dariusblakey9061 I can tell you with certainty most of people of PR Don't believe PR will become a state anytime soon.... Most are like "I DOUBT THAT PR WILL BECOME A STATE, WHO WILL WANT US?" Who ever says differently is a biased person... this falls for the independence goers and the statehood goers

[@dariusblakey9061]

@@pyropapi2470 look it up it said 61 percent of Puerto Rico wants to become a state

[@dariusblakey9061]

@@pgum123gonowplayread4 I think eventually it’s gonna be a state majority of puerto wants to be a state and a lot of Americans want it to be state only a matter of time

[@lisarosario429]

This hurts my heart. Thank you. Not enough is being shown about this.

[@PHlophe]

lisa del rosario, this is gentrification. for people that make fun of black americans being displaced. it doesn't take long for the problem to be exported

[@adiaz9201]

It’s called capitalism, best money can buy. Like any part in the world there are areas located for the wealthy. They don’t want to live in the ghetto. If you can afford to live in area than that is good. It’s how u keep the bad elements out.

[@PHlophe]

Angelito, its called siphoning resources, hoarding and pushing people who could live in the area with a modest income. Usually ghettos exist because folk are priced out artificially out of areas . Miami is chock full of those. Now how does that mean they are bad people. keeping bad elements out ? Now look what done happened. !

[@MAmet-bc3zz]

@@adiaz9201 capitalism was born on the back of slaves and kept up by justifying wars and invasions.. it has never worked in a working society, this is not capitalism, is gentrification plain and simple

[@lacrema9843]

Puerto Rico is already destroy and no one and no government official you fix the problems. All the do is want🔫💥☠️and 💰

[@Jordan-oh8ye]

I was not born in Puerto Rico. My grandparents arrived in New York when they were teenagers. After my mother was born, my grandparents tried moving back to the island, but they couldn't find a job over the two years they stayed. I have only visited Puerto Rico as a tourist. However, it still feels like home to me. My favorite memories are seeing mi familia en Caguas, or walking through El Yunque, and getting fresh coconut water along the small mom and pop shops along the way. I want to go back so bad. Seeing videos like these hurt. They hurt my heart and soul. I messaged my local representative to consider statehood when the most recent referendum showed most wanted it. I was mad at the current state of the island. I'm not so sure if statehood would be the best option now. All I know is that the situation as it is now is not acceptable. Something needs to change. Puerto Rico needs to become independent or a state. Something needs to be done. The Jones Act needs to be abolished. The tax breaks to rich corporations from the years of Operation Bootstrap need to go. The language is already fading. Me and my cousins are the first who don't speak Spanish fluently. I still maintain my culture. The music, the food, the history. I don't want these things to dissappear too. I don't want my home to be destroyed because the people in power don't care. Because there are so many people who do care, and they are the ones who need change the most, because their lives depend on it. Somos de aquí, como el coquí.

[@medicolas6359]

Im in the same boat my family is from peñuelas I’m want to move to Puerto Rico and start a business and help out the people del el Pueblo I’m 23 and I want Puerto Rico to become independent Ik it not easy but we loose our culture is we become a State so many people are leaving our beautiful island we should go back to the island and do what we can

[@mr.m5647]

@@medicolas6359 Statehood doesn't mean to lose a culture. Remember, thanks to the internet and convenience travel, we all become global citizens. We have the tools to learn about almost everything from anywhere in the world. What's important is the economical and political wellbeing of Puerto Rico.

[@scarfo441]

i want to become a state...economically it does not makes sense to me to be come independent ...not with such a small population,,i mean seriously,what and or how are we goung to survive?...selling cocunuts?...coffee? No thnx...STATEHOOD, or stay the same

[@Digoamipersona888]

@@scarfo441 ---- "CÓMO PUERTORRIQUEÑOS 🇪🇸🇵🇷 TENEMOS LA RESPONSABILIDAD, EL DERECHO Y LA OBLIGACIÓN DE CONTINUAR LUCHANDO, DEFENDIENDO Y PRÓTESTANDO POR NUESTRA CULTURA, DIGNIDAD, IGUALDAD, MORALIDAD, IDENTITAD, RESPETO Y LIBERTAD PATRIÓTICA DE NUESTRA TIERRA QUERIDA, LÍBRE Y SOBERANA." ---- ¡PÁL CARAJO LA junta físcal, LA junta estatal Y LA junta federal; JUNTO CON LOS MALDITOS yanquís Y LOS MALDITOS vende patria DE NUESTRA QUERIDA ISLA, LÍBRE Y SOBERANA! ----"YA... ES HORA DE LEVANTAR LOS MACHETES EN MANO; CONTRA LOS MALDITOS yanquís Y LOS MALDITOS vende patria DE NUESTRA PATRIA QUERIDA, LIBRE Y SOBERANA." ---- ¡SEGUIREMOS EN RESISTENCIA! ---- ¡VIVA LA LUCHA ANTI-IMPERIALISTA! ---- "NO HAY TRIUNFO SÍN LUCHA, NÍ LUCHA SÍN SACRIFICIO." ---- "PUERTORRIQUEÑO DESPIERTA Y DEFIENDE TU PATRIA...✊⚔️✊⚔️✊⚔️." ---- ¡QUÉ VIVA LA MADRE PATRIA ESPAÑA Y LATINOAMÉRICA UNIDA CÓMO HERMANOS QUE SOMOS... 🇵🇷 🇭🇹 🇩🇴 🇨🇺 🇨🇱 🇦🇷 🇻🇪 🇨🇷 🇺🇾 🇬🇹 🇵🇪 🇯🇲 🇦🇬 🇵🇭 🇵🇦 🇦🇼 🇬🇾 🇹🇹 🇪🇺 🇨🇬 🇵🇾 🇪🇨 🇭🇳 🇲🇽 🇨🇴 🇮🇨 🇧🇴 🇧🇷 🇪🇸⏰💣⚔️📜 🌄 🏝️ 🌎...! ¡OREMOS POR NUESTRA LIBERTA Y SEBERANIA! 😇🙏 🌱🏝️🗡 ---- ¡SALMO 20... AMÉM, AMÉN Y AMÉM...!

[@ItachiKai]

I understand you exactly, brother. My grandparents, similarly, moved to NY. I visited Puerto Rico recently and I was overwhelmed with how much it felt like home. I am lucky enough that I am able to move to the island and maintain my current job until I can find work locally.

[@SALSAKID49]

Look at the lying eyes of Rob Rill... He's looking up, to the sides, etc... SMH...

[@mauropereira187]

His eyes are reminding me of when I look at the toppings I want to put on my sandwich.

[@davebayles9695]

Agreed! Puerto Ricans should Be able to make their own decision on if they would like to be a state or be independent or be their own sovereign nation. If the USA does not support Puerto Rico’s right to vote then the people of Puerto Rico are prisoners of the United States!

[@erick8344]

most of us want statehood so

[@mindy2215]

Puerto Rico residents pay more in federal income taxes every year than do residents of six U.S. states: "From 1998 up until 2006, when Puerto Rico was hit by its present economic recession, Puerto Rico consistently paid more than $4 billion annually in federal taxes and impositions into the national fisc." This was more that the IRS collected from taxpayers in six States of the Union: Vermont, Wyoming, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, and Alaska, as well as the Northern Mariana Islands.[17][18] People of the island pay too much taxes to the USA, they are comfortable the way they are, since in the USA, nobody owns their properties, if they do not pay taxes, the government will auction them. On the island, people who own a very expensive property pays, the ones who own a humble house in the countryside as I understand do not pay taxes. They are afraid of these people losing their properties if unable to pay property taxes.

[@dannycruz2679]

@@erick8344 not true, most Puerto Rican did not vote in the referendum

[@sabledg7380]

@@dannycruz2679 but most of us want statehood

[@dannycruz2679]

@@sabledg7380 ..not true, most Puerto Rican did not vote in the referendum

[@PatriciaMartinez-dk7vc]

Thank you for such a realistic and thorough documentary. This is eye opening to the people interested in knowing more about Puerto Rico 🇵🇷.

[@melvinnudelman8782]

Statehood would be suicide for Puerto Ricans. Land taxes would decimate your property to pay large amounts extra in taxes

[@tmelendezmia]

The LIKE button is too small for the essence of this video. From its producer and narrator, to its content and purpose. GRACIAS, Lilia Luciano!

[@starortiz3483]

Perfect example of what the rich Leona Helmsley allegedly said "We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes."

[@ra4auto]

Really prove your point naming Leona "the Queen of mean" Helmsley, she was investigated and convicted of federal income tax evasion and other crimes in 1989.

[@josephbeltran2261]

Was born in New York raised in Puerto Rico went to Junior High and High School and I work in Puerto Rico and I say statehood is the way I don't know why Puerto Ricans are saying that the state is abusing them if Puerto Ricans are governed by Puerto Ricans so we are abusing ourselves

[@biglionalomar]

USA no le interesa que PR sea estado prefieren que sigan siendo un paraíso fiscal para los millonarios…

[@Aangrox]

And who do you think it is that tells Puerto Rican leaders how to govern? It's the American Aryans. Educate yourself a little more to better understand that even in Puerto Rico, we have sellouts who believe the US is the ONLY country in the world that can do wonders. Heck, try moving into a pretty White neighborhood in the states...You know damn well they don't want you or our people anywhere near them and on top of that, they take our land.

[@Radrook353]

Most Puerto Ricans think exactly like you do. Either become state or else remain a colony.

[@MetalMD71]

By the way, neither Ricky Martin, Bad Bunny, nor Residente live on the island. Where do they live? Yep, the one country they criticize. USA. Pure hypocrisy.

[@chinchanchou]

Need come back to spain, in puerto rico have a party who come back to spain... se llama reunificacionismo con España

[@barryfeliciano2423]

Ur absolutely right, hipocracy is also claiming democratic freedom, and then colonizing

[@Dahlic]

I have to disagree with your comment. I myself live in Germany but have my parents and family in Puerto Rico, plus an American passport that allows me to have an opinion on the island’s political status. People must understand that not staying in Puerto Rico doesn’t mean we can’t have an opinion… either statehood or independence. Further, while holding an American passport, one must file taxes each year from wherever country you live in the world, which grants you this right (even to vote ;))

[@sekokhan5307]

bad bunny lives in pr

[@dulcerivas9286]

PR is part of the US 😂 so they have the right to criticism it

[@BAMMBAMMNYC]

Free Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 ✊🏽😤 Libre❕🏝🌄🌅🌎

[@erick8344]

statehood!!!

[@margaretnorvell9555]

I agree. Free PR. Revoke US citizenship and US influence.

[@Bob26178]

Puerto Rico will become a state

[@gerryology]

It truly hurts to see what is becoming of my island and the future doesn't look promising. So frustrating...

[@tonycruz6183]

Sad and legit

[@Digoamipersona888]

---- "CÓMO PUERTORRIQUEÑOS 🇪🇸🇵🇷 TENEMOS LA RESPONSABILIDAD, EL DERECHO Y LA OBLIGACIÓN DE CONTINUAR LUCHANDO, DEFENDIENDO Y PRÓTESTANDO POR NUESTRA CULTURA, DIGNIDAD, IGUALDAD, MORALIDAD, IDENTITAD, RESPETO Y LIBERTAD PATRIÓTICA DE NUESTRA TIERRA QUERIDA, LÍBRE Y SOBERANA." ---- ¡PÁL CARAJO LA junta físcal, LA junta estatal Y LA junta federal; JUNTO CON LOS MALDITOS yanquís Y LOS MALDITOS vende patria DE NUESTRA QUERIDA ISLA, LÍBRE Y SOBERANA! ----"YA... ES HORA DE LEVANTAR LOS MACHETES EN MANO; CONTRA LOS MALDITOS yanquís Y LOS MALDITOS vende patria DE NUESTRA PATRIA QUERIDA, LIBRE Y SOBERANA." ---- ¡SEGUIREMOS EN RESISTENCIA! ---- ¡VIVA LA LUCHA ANTI-IMPERIALISTA! ---- "NO HAY TRIUNFO SÍN LUCHA, NÍ LUCHA SÍN SACRIFICIO." ---- "PUERTORRIQUEÑO DESPIERTA Y DEFIENDE TU PATRIA...✊⚔️✊⚔️✊⚔️." ---- ¡QUÉ VIVA LA MADRE PATRIA ESPAÑA Y LATINOAMÉRICA UNIDA CÓMO HERMANOS QUE SOMOS... 🇵🇷 🇭🇹 🇩🇴 🇨🇺 🇨🇱 🇦🇷 🇻🇪 🇨🇷 🇺🇾 🇬🇹 🇵🇪 🇯🇲 🇦🇬 🇵🇭 🇵🇦 🇦🇼 🇬🇾 🇹🇹 🇪🇺 🇨🇬 🇵🇾 🇪🇨 🇭🇳 🇲🇽 🇨🇴 🇮🇨 🇧🇴 🇧🇷 🇪🇸⏰💣⚔️📜 🌄 🏝️ 🌎...! ¡OREMOS POR NUESTRA LIBERTA Y SEBERANIA! 😇🙏 🌱🏝️🗡🗡🗡 ¡SALMO 20... AMÉM, AMÉN Y AMÉM...!

[@Digoamipersona888]

@@tonycruz6183 ---- "CÓMO PUERTORRIQUEÑOS 🇪🇸🇵🇷 TENEMOS LA RESPONSABILIDAD, EL DERECHO Y LA OBLIGACIÓN DE CONTINUAR LUCHANDO, DEFENDIENDO Y PRÓTESTANDO POR NUESTRA CULTURA, DIGNIDAD, IGUALDAD, MORALIDAD, IDENTITAD, RESPETO Y LIBERTAD PATRIÓTICA DE NUESTRA TIERRA QUERIDA, LÍBRE Y SOBERANA." ---- ¡PÁL CARAJO LA junta físcal, LA junta estatal Y LA junta federal; JUNTO CON LOS MALDITOS yanquís Y LOS MALDITOS vende patria DE NUESTRA QUERIDA ISLA, LÍBRE Y SOBERANA! ----"YA... ES HORA DE LEVANTAR LOS MACHETES EN MANO; CONTRA LOS MALDITOS yanquís Y LOS MALDITOS vende patria DE NUESTRA PATRIA QUERIDA, LIBRE Y SOBERANA." ---- ¡SEGUIREMOS EN RESISTENCIA! ---- ¡VIVA LA LUCHA ANTI-IMPERIALISTA! ---- "NO HAY TRIUNFO SÍN LUCHA, NÍ LUCHA SÍN SACRIFICIO." ---- "PUERTORRIQUEÑO DESPIERTA Y DEFIENDE TU PATRIA...✊⚔️✊⚔️✊⚔️." ---- ¡QUÉ VIVA LA MADRE PATRIA ESPAÑA Y LATINOAMÉRICA UNIDA CÓMO HERMANOS QUE SOMOS... 🇵🇷 🇭🇹 🇩🇴 🇨🇺 🇨🇱 🇦🇷 🇻🇪 🇨🇷 🇺🇾 🇬🇹 🇵🇪 🇯🇲 🇦🇬 🇵🇭 🇵🇦 🇦🇼 🇬🇾 🇹🇹 🇪🇺 🇨🇬 🇵🇾 🇪🇨 🇭🇳 🇲🇽 🇨🇴 🇮🇨 🇧🇴 🇧🇷 🇪🇸⏰💣⚔️📜 🌄 🏝️ 🌎...! ¡OREMOS POR NUESTRA LIBERTA Y SEBERANIA! 😇🙏 🌱🏝️🗡🗡🗡 ¡SALMO 20... AMÉM, AMÉN Y AMÉM...!

[@simoncado1623]

Because you people in Puerto Rico let it happen. Sacalos para fuera. Don't let them take what's yours.

[@wakandianCrimeMatters-co2ur]

@@simoncado1623 exactly get out of puerto rico and return it to the native/indigenous peoples

[@ronin5020]

I’ve been to Puerto Rico a handful of times since 2010, and I fell in love with the country, not for tourism but because when I was there, feel African and Latin culture permeates everything I saw… As a then 20-something AA man from the US, I knew very little about the island on my first visit. but spending the first trips 2weeks in Utuado, I quickly learned about the Utuado massacre and saw Puerto Ricans looking exactly like me, which was dope, Learning about Tainos etc, honestly made me desire to live there, and not to be some bogus foreigner, just to respectfully learn/live there.

[@tachoman6350]

My family is from Utuado, not sure how many if any are still living there.

[@musskeeterbump]

love my Puerto Rican brothers and sisters, god bless 🙏🏽

[@Radrook353]

My Puerto Rican brothers and sisters emptied my house of all my furniture when I was absent for two days.

[@melvincruz7988]

Us Puerto ricans are tooo strong and will overcome everything. God bless pr and the whole world

[@willam779]

Stop skipping our problems start spreading the word

[@melvincruz7988]

by the word will always be spread. This world we live in is pure evil

[@lautaroaguilar9584]

That’s funny. 🤣🤣🤣👎🏿👎🏿

[@willam779]

@@lautaroaguilar9584 You’re tired

[@julioconsuegra1351]

👍👍👍

[@DanielMolinaLife]

I am a Puerto Rican that lives in Hawaii and unfortunately what will happen to PR is the same that is happening here. Push out the locals and cater to tourism. Buy up communities and make them vacation rentals driving prices up. It’s sad to see. What is worse, it’s foreign money making profit not Americans and we are a state! Hawaii is being “pimped.” PR, if it becomes a state will find that same fate. I am a proud American and patriot but leave countries alone. We have our Independence, let others have theirs. 🇵🇷🤜💥🤛🇺🇸

[@chinchanchou]

Ridículo if we part of somthing we will part of SPAIN NOT OF THE GRINGOS, WE ARE HISPANOS NOT GRINGOS WE HAVE A CULTURE A SPANISH CULTURE WE SPEAK SPANISH, SOLO HAY DOS OPCIONES VOLVER A ESPAÑA O SER UN PAIS INDEPENDIENTE

[@clarkhull7546]

@@chinchanchou if you want respect you have to give it. Using words like gringos makes you look ignorant.

[@chinchanchou]

@Richard ASMR because you born in gringokandia if you born in the isoand you like bomba, guajira, spanish language, etc puertorriqueño agringado de seguro ni sabes hablar tu idioma materno

[@ejproficial]

Thank you 😭😭😭

[@ejproficial]

@@clarkhull7546 Well sorry to tell you that almost everyone in Latinoamerica says Gringos for American people. Thats how ir is bc it's part of Hispanic culture. Especially in the Caribbean

[@parunox1702]

Seeing these locations is how I remember as a Puerto Rican myself born and raised for soo many years just remembering some moments between good and bad but after hurricane Irma and Maria things have changed

[@JohnDoe-kz4gy]

But how exactly is statehood going to fix anything? Just look at Hawaii. ¡Que Viva Puerto Rico libre!

[@homeshall9299]

Look at the rest of 48state …. That why

[@guillermosegarra2882]

Actual Puerto Rico governor, Pedro Pierluisi, is a neoliberal bussiness man, who's bussiness protection it is the only thing that is important for him and his group of rich people.

[@richardgarcia3076]

“Power flows to where it is needed.” Time for Puerto Rico to connect to that power and stay connected.

[@abrahamorellana9622]

Only way is reunited and works together.

[@MiguelAdrian]

Good educational video, for theses reasons, I move from the island 3 years ago. But for a lot of us, living in the states now, a better Puerto Rico it’s our hope, so we can go back home. Back to our paradise.👌🏻

[@ejproficial]

¡¡Amén!!

[@ejproficial]

@Falo - Me gusta tu actitud. 💪🏽👨🏽

[@ejproficial]

@Falo - 💪🏽👨🏽💯🇵🇷❤️

[@ejproficial]

@Falo - Pareces buena gente ¿Tienes algún tipo de red social?

[@MiguelAdrian]

@Falo - 💪🏻 Good luck 🙏🏼

[@sincityj9423]

Breaks my heart. I'd die for puerto rico

[@elbatorres6113]

Great documentary! Luciano is one of my favorite journalists!!!! I was born and raised on the island; left at 24 and stayed here. I love Puerto Rico; statehood is NOT going to solve the problem. Thank you. Good vibes always, from NYC!

[@Ali-p6w9d]

What’s going to solve the problem you think? Then why you are in the United States now? Si se independiza Puerto Rico más pobre será.

[@FranciscoSanchez-pe7nm]

In this documentary they put Puerto Rico as if they were a third world country. They paint a lie about who we are.

[@Ali-p6w9d]

No is not a third world country. But is happening. A lot Europeans go to Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico and are buying land in front the beach and built hotels and the beaches become private just for guest and we can’t enjoy it anymore. Because the beach become private and belongs to them. In the long term with the climate change the ocean will rip off the walls of the hotel structure. Is already happening in Puerto Rico and Mexico.

[@boostmobile5326]

Correcto, RIP Statehood. Libre Puerto Rico. Viva la Independencia.

[@Digoamipersona888]

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[@Javier23gol]

Puerto Rico is a country. I wouldn’t accept never in my life waking up one morning and look at my family houses shining during sunrise in the countryside, or a sunset in the beach and say “This is United States”.

[@luiscolon1600]

Puerto Rico is not a country yet not yet but will be one day.

[@Javier23gol]

@@luiscolon1600 Maybe in the political status we’re not, but culturally and at an international level we’re recognized as one.

[@McClintonforThree]

Y’all have been American citizens for more than a century. You’re just as American as Hawaii, Alaska, Maine, Florida, and California. Time to give y’all the rights and privileges you should already have as Americans and start digging you out of the financial mess you’re currently in.

[@mauropereira187]

@@McClintonforThree I mean, by a part of the US yes but culturally and societal no.

[@McClintonforThree]

@@mauropereira187 I mean, you use the same currency, serve in the same military, have hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans living in the mainland, consume all the same entertainment, have the same laws, and yes you have your own blend of different influences like Taino, Spanish, and African but who doesn’t? Florida has Spanish, Cuban, Seminole, and English influences. Florida is not culturally the same as Oregon. We’re better together than apart. Imho.

[@manuelcaraballo9983]

Despierta borincano que desde maría están sacando ventaja, Unidos como nunca resistencia!!!!!! Somos muchos

[@alianzaconlanaturaleza5623]

Desde 1898 nos están saqueando, estrangulando nuestra economía, borrando nuestra memoria.. los valores, la cultura, español en estado comatosa

[@Subject82]

🙄 Ay mijo que importa deja que la gente viva.

[@iwanttobelieve5970]

If it becomes a state, you're going to have every Karen and Ken move there and then demand that English become the first language. And PR culture will become like Hawaii with the PR culture served up for just for tourists and all the housing for the rich.

[@mrkjsmooth16]

They’ll never be a state unless hwite English speaking Americans control it. They will be moved out and spread over the mainland

[@ssglopezvm]

Nonsense... I was born and raised in PR. When I was 12, I was interviewed by a local NY reporter. I was asked about the island referendum's vote... I agreed with statehood. Im 50 today, I still believe in it. PR cannot survive as an independent state, we don't built, grow export anything.

[@iwanttobelieve5970]

@Why Ask Was waiting on a doofus to comment.

[@iwanttobelieve5970]

@@ssglopezvm B.S. PR was exporting sugarcane and other items and after their land and homes were seized, they were forced into legal modern slavery by the U. S government. Then others were shipped off to Hawaii and other areas as cheap laborers. You really need to read.

[@gsapp59]

@@iwanttobelieve5970 Nothing you said is accurate. Puerto Rico's sugar industry failed because the Puerto Rican government crushed big producers with labor rules. The Federal Reserve wrote a paper on this. Google it.

[@animal9370]

Puerto Rico Libre!!!!!!! Say NO to statehood.

[@Edlas22158]

Here a freeloader alien with an envious tantrum.Poor GUARDIAN OF LIFE. If your people got to the island along the coasts, go be a guardian so they do not get to the island with no suitcase, money or dignity to be a public burden on the island and USA.

[@animal9370]

@@Edlas22158 I guess your 3rd grade grammar didn't serve you well. Your message is incoherent.

[@Edlas22158]

*New York- For decades most alien Dominicans residing in the United States depend on food stamps and welfare that includes Section 8, Medicaid, Transportation paid by taxpayers according to the Weekly Standard magazine.* _NY Post- Dominican merchants sell food to welfare recipients from their country who send it to support Dominican Republic, a foreign country that contributes with nothing to the USA. New York Post-The Federal Government found a scam for more than $60 millions, of dominicans depending on welfare that ended on Dom Republic banks._ *Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, the U.N. special rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, said the Dominican Republic is a child sex tourism hotspot* Minors can be pushed into the sex trade by their own families and local pimps, taxi and motorbike taxi drivers are known to bring children to sex tourists.*

[@deborahcollazo]

No to statehood but yes to that welfare money huh!!

[@Edlas22158]

The USA Treasury: *_The recent economic crisis on the island has put a huge dent in the federal tax revenue collected from Puerto Rico, but it still added up to $3.6 billion in fiscal year 2016. That's not much less than some states where residents do pay full income tax: Vermont and Wyoming paid $4.5 billion in federal taxes that year._* *DOM REP PUBLIC BURDEN OF USA AND PUERTO RICO AND BROTHEL OF THE CARIBBEAN. Hahaahaj, Deborah Collazo, freeloader alien, PR pays billions of dollars in federal taxes annually and share the benefits already paid with the plague of hungry creatures from DOM REP (foreign country queen of food stamps and welfare in the USA that PR helps pay for and brothel of the Caribbean) who enter the island along the coasts with no suitcase, a penny or dignity to be supported by Puerto Ricans and be a public burden. *New York- Almost the whole population of Dominicans living in the USA have been a public burden to the USA government for decades. According to the statistics of the USA census, it is one of the migratory groups most dependent on food stamps, section 8, medical services, and transportation paid by USA taxpayers.* JAJAAJ NY Post- Dominican merchants sell food to welfare recipients from their country who send it to support Dominican Republic, a foreign country that contributes with nothing to the USA. JAJAJA New York Post-The Federal Government found a scam for more than $60 millions, of dominicans depending on welfare that ended on Dom Republic banks.

[@zaidacortes6593]

Save our paradise Puerto Rico 🇵🇷

[@OscarHernandez-je9zc]

Los Mexicanos support the independence of Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 👍👍 free yourself from exploitation

[@manuelcaraballo9983]

Gracias Hermano

[@lp1652]

Wepaaa viva 🇲🇽!!! Gracias hermano

[@MyTrivilin]

NO, thank you . The truth is that Majority of Puerto Rican’s DONT want the independence, So sad that a few people that says that (including artist, singers that don’t live in the island, live in the USA ) think can represent us. So thank you but not thank you

[@gleemalv8310]

and a lot of you coming to the USA lol hypocrisy

[@marlene97280]

La borinquena linda las personas deben determinar la trayectoria que les conviene. Situación muy compleja, con limitaciones económicas, no sacrifiques tu identidad. Todo mi apoyo de Martinica en el Caribe francés

[@ejproficial]

¡¡Gracias hermano!! Hasta tú entiendes las consecuencias de la estadidad para Puerto Rico. ¡Muchas gracias de verdad!

[@polimascara1467]

El oido eso por mas de 40 años y haci es desde que los Americanos llegaron por Guanica. Nadie se pone de acuerdo por lo que es mejor para PR.

[@quito_pr7641]

Independence for Puerto Rico

[@Edlas22158]

That little island contributes with billions of dollars annually to the federal government, and probably helps support your people, from wherever you are when they arrive with no money to be a burden. Whether you are form Europe or whatever PR was here before you.

[@Lorena-ms4jq]

@@Edlas22158 You are Correct Sir.

[@Subject82]

With the level of corruption in Puerto Rico, it would be a failed state in less than 10 years of it's independence. That's not to say that the statehoodera are 50% of the population and would leave with independence thus leaving the island more than empty and with less people to collect taxes from.

[@Edlas22158]

@@Subject82Talking about corruption? It is the same in the mainland and the rest of the world. Plus, the ones that claim independence are a few, not about 50%, so they can move to one of those countries that claim to be independent, but crawl like snakes to get to the USA. PLUS WHAT DOES PUERTO RICO WANT TO BE A STATE FOR? TO HAVE A BIGGER AVALANCHE OF FREELOADERS FROM DR, WHO GET TO THE ISLAND TO BE SUPPORTED BY PUERTO RICANS,(not until they settle themselves) BUT FOR DECADES ACCORDING TO THE CENSUS THAT INCLUDES THE ISLAND. Go to_* NATIONAL DATA... AND THE WINNER IS...*_ The list is at the end of the page headed by DR a foreign country that contributes with nothing to the USA. The Post found piles and piles of barrels and boxes covering walls of Dominican stores destined to send food to their country bought with food stamps. NOT FROM DR? THEN FIND your COUNTRY on the LIST. FROM PUERTO RICO, JUST A HYPOCRITE, ENEMY OF YOUR PEOPLE.

[@joanneriveralopez8985]

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[@huevitopipihead]

Again,a little percentage making a lot of noise, and don't forget, Puerto Rico is more than San Juan and la Perla

[@Deep-Travel]

Agree. This is a leftist political hit piece.

[@huevitopipihead]

@@Deep-Travel it's sickening

[@adiaz9201]

Pro independence is a very small margin. Majority of Puerto Rican’s are either for the status quo or pro state hood.

[@clarkhull7546]

@@adiaz9201 I don't doubt what you're saying sir. But why wouldn't Puerto Rico want to be a sovereign nation? How can real change happen without that?

[@adiaz9201]

@@clarkhull7546 independence will worsen Puerto Ricos problems. For the one thing it will fix, it will bring 100 times the problems they never expected. All they have to do is look at the neighboring islands. Not the tourism sites. The villages and pueblos that people live in. In the DR the peso is 54 to 1 dollar, and the people make 20 K a year. That’s poverty there. And they are independent, many flee to Puerto Rico and make a better living than most Puerto Rican’s because they hustle. Look at Haiti, look at Jamaica. Are we to believe that an independent Puerto Rico can do any better than the DR? Not just my opinion, it is a fact. And no one in this platform can say something different.

[@mikemiguel5073]

I fully support Puerto Rico’s 🇵🇷 independence ✊✊VAMOS MI GENTE, SI SE PUEDE !!!

[@Lorena-ms4jq]

Puerto Rico estado 51 USA baby

[@pgum123gonowplayread4]

Economía primero

[@thedevilsM45]

Independencia? Ta bien, loco que pase pa que acaben con el puerto rico actual. A ver como se van a levantar solitos. Todo esos ideales son bellos hasta que se tengan ensuciar las manos todos no solo unos pocos. Btw, españa regalo a pr a los estados unidos. Ya este video tiene cosas incorrectas. Se ve la narrativa pipiola. Ojala le den independecia. Pa ver desde aca como se terminan de consumir

[@GeoSer-lv9eb]

Watching this video its interesting and so much emotion.As Filipino from the Philippines 🇵🇭 I'd say keep your culture identity.Puerto Rico very beautiful country 1898 we all bought by USA 🇺🇸 Guam 🇬🇺 Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 🇵🇭 Filipinas.from Spain.Filipinas asked for Independent.Puerto Rico has it all very industrious intelligent people unstoppable.look at South Korea Japan Singapore Hongkong people living comfortable because they are free. Now your brother Filipinas is climbing now building subway gigantic infrastructure goal is to provide a normal Joe a much decent life I love Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 brother ❤️

[@demaification]

Much love to Puerto Rico I'm part Puerto Rican myself AKA Texas rican I wish I could go there one day 🇵🇷

[@NewMojo71]

I'm a Texas Rican too, I just went for the first time. It was sad how poor most of the people are. I definitely don't think making it an independent country would work unfortunately

[@pgum123gonowplayread4]

Suggestion, avoid crime filled areas, also, no judging people on their nationality too much, bring portable battery chargers (we have issues with our supplier of electricity and water but that's another issue) and have them full of energy, ready for road trip (people usually stay within Viejo San Juan when turist-ing, don't do that, explore different areas such as the different sands that are on the island and different altitudes of the island, do check the history of the national park that you want to visit, want to wear jeans not shorts even under infernal heat, public transport doesn't really work and people naturally think as the first thing that comes to mind when public transport is "oh, it will mean another politician wasting money and it's not even of him being corrupt", so fair warning. Temperatures are sometimes good, sometimes bad, as a rule of thumb also what is typical PR food in one area might not be the same of another.. for example, my grandfather was from the mountains, he did NOT eat a lot of rice and beans, I do, but I live in a different area... also, note that supermarkets are very catered towards americanization so many of the actual typical fruits aren't found easily in supermarkets, nor a grand variety of fish that is a LOT more typical than things like salmon and stuff... also here private school does not mean utterly stuck up unless it's certain private schools plus expensive car as education is bad and well... that's even though it's one of our most expensive departments however, free cafeteria food for all students by law (in efforts to increase student productivity even among poor children) Also, we do believe in global warming but [eople generally don't want to do anything we have many breath taking scenery depending where you go.. for example, you go through the south to get to a western town, the scenery may change quite a bit from any mountains or from metro areas also, simple suggestions (beside wear actual jeans as to look less touristy to the people0, clean person is a admirable member of society so avoid speaking of how many times you bathe cause we bathe at lest 1 a day unless pigsty mentality linkage avoid impatience, yes, the gasoline prices are high yes, certain food prices are high, yes tech prices are over a hundred dollars more expensive here than outside the island generally look at if a certain beach is clean enough to bathe in, ready for bumpy car rides, restaurant may give large portions of food bakery is more like cafe's and our street ice cream taste very different than something like Baskin Robbins or something, careful of street pirogues or street ice cream cost cause if it's like 5 than defiantly try another street vendor usually it's supposed to be very cheap... generally water bottles should be 1 dollar something like 3 dollars would be like Fiji or a scam avoid scam We as a people are very proud that NASA loves to take people from UPR MAYAGUEZ, I think it's la Politecnica that has certification on classes on cyber security being one of the few colleges in American territory, mainland or not, to have that certification (not like tiny amount but a small-is two digit number) La UPR used to be called the best education in the world for low price but not any more, basically now for example, the main campus is now the campus of protestors since university prices rising and so on... We produce tons of meds for the US, we also have water springs that have great purity lots of abandoned projects original home of all the coquis, and one of the places the American conquistadores found pineapple's but you already know about the current monopoly a company in Hawaii has on growing them Pineapples used to be called Ananas We have almost all types of soil on earth and still we waste most of it... Live just under the world's second deepest trench yet using sea, also wasted so on... careful of too pricy stuff

[@suindoe8141]

Preach! 🙌🏽💯

[@user-uo4rf4ez8c]

@@NewMojo71 no. but the moment you gain your independence I almost guarantee most will end up speaking Mandarin sooner than later.

[@NewMojo71]

@@user-uo4rf4ez8c US Statehood is what I think should happen.

[@rosendomartinez1867]

Wow que muchos recuerdos me vienen a la cabeza pensar tantas cosas en ese pequeño camino hacia el cañon San cristobal super orgulloso de ser Puertoriqueño y de mi pequeño pueblo aibonito

[@williammaldonado3516]

Outstanding documentary! 🇵🇷

[@raydomenech7646]

Great documentary, very well done, excellent interviews! The Governor sends mixed signals, he clearly understands that the US doesn’t treat or see us as equals, that’s how colonies are treated… his solution is statehood due to fear of being a sovereign nation. He sees progress, how about Mississippi, South Carolina and other poor states? Hawaii? The natives have been displaced and many can’t afford to live there. They lost their culture, their language and their land.., Is that what the “estadistas” want?

[@user-wt5tw6ox9b]

El que quiera perder su cultura es porque quiere. Siendo un estado,no vas a perder tu idioma ni va a nevar en tu barrio. Inclusive puedes ir a cualquier estado y veras que muchos q edtranjeros d diferentes paises traen sus cultura y costumbre y hasta en la manera de vestir,ya estando lejos de sus paises de origen. Falasias y mentiras de independentistas para sembrar miedo. Estamos en el siglo21. Sabemos q son los gobiernos corrupto los q han empujado a nuestra isla a esta situación y oportunistamente le hechan la culpa al estatus. Y si P.R. llegara a ser independiente,sera tierra de nadie, o de solo bandalos y corruptos,sin los federales monitoriando.

[@ivanojeda1691]

No easy solution.

[@sonitawong7993]

Socialism Or Communism or a Combination... Apartheid ended in South Africa When the Cubans came to help...Greedy Capitalist are afraid if Socialism... Look to Cuba, and Venezuela... I feel that the war with Russia is to keep out a threat to Capitalists...Many of us preferred Castro's government rather than Slavery, Apartheid and Jim Crow...

[@sonitawong7993]

Remember the United States tried to turn Cuba into demonic playground for The Rich & Criminals organizations like the American Mafia...... Cuba was full of Brothals ...

[@HeadStronger-HS]

Half of Puerto Ricans have moved to the mainland and done very well. Many send money back to their families on the Island.

[@LoneWolfj11]

We are a colony. We have no representation in Congress. No decision on our land, we also can't export goods = the main source of wealth in countries. All because of the Jones Act. All purposeful. either way, We deserve to decide our own autonomy not our exploiters.

[@abrahamorellana9622]

You're correct.

[@Edlas22158]

WASHINGTON DC HE CAPITAL CITY, AND WHERE THE PRESIDENT LIVES IS NOT A STATE OF THE USA, AND IT DOES NOT HAVE REPRESENTATION IN CONGRESS EITHER. WHAT DOES PUERTO RICO GAIN BY BEING A TATE? A BIGGER AVALANCHE OF FREELOADERS ALONG THE COASTS TO DRAIN THE GOVERNMENT RESOURCES AND BE A PUBLIC BURDEN FROM DOM REP. THEY ARE LEADERS IN FOOD STAMPS AND WELFARE FOR DECADES, ACCORDING TO THE CENSUS OF THE USA AND PR. IMAGINE IF THE ISLAD BECOMES A STATE!

[@abrahamorellana9622]

@@Edlas22158 is going to be the worst poor in puerto rico than Mississippi if puerto rico become statehood and lose the culture of puerto rico national identity and burden forever is really going to be sad for my grandmother island I hope people from puerto rico make a better choice which side one independence the last Latin American and still save puerto rico national identity two states hood to stop be puerto rican Latin American be united states full citizenship and sing about united states nationality song is going to be hard for people in puerto rico to understand about alot united states living in puerto rico more they the one they for statehood and kick the people out of their island and taking over the island.

[@LoneWolfj11]

@@Edlas22158 You're also comparing a state to an island that has been exploited for 500 years? Who's population is greater than DC and has fought every major war? Wow. Just flat out stereotyping, and prejudice.

[@ninahndz5880]

@@Edlas22158 no, darling, the leaders in welfare are the jews, then Dominicans. Get your facts straight. FYI, Puerto Ricans have made NUMEROUS contributions in all areas that have benefited the U.S. n the world.

[@MrPrimoPR]

Excelente ! Solo quiero comentar que los problemas que tiene PR ahora es producto de piratería de los políticos tanto puertorriqueños como norteamericanos en conjunto con Wall Street. A los jóvenes le deseo que sigan teniendo mucha valentía y no vendan su tierra. Tengan sentido de propiedad, que eso es más fuerte y duradero que los líos de status.

[@tonyfeliciano2717]

Exactamente es asi

[@meryvega1249]

@@tonyfeliciano2717 Sera asi pero, cuando uno ve en la television un jovenaso de esos agarrar un adoquin en el viejo San Juan y tirrarlo a una vidriera se siente feo. No tienen respeto por la policia .Donde esta la mente de los jovenes boricuas. "Que sera de borinquen mi dios querido que sera de mis hijos y de mi hogar''

[@olgalugo7377]

@@meryvega1249 usted no puede juzgar a toda la juventud por un acto que vio..se nota su pobre mentalidad para enjuiciar a toda una sociedad por actos aislados.

[@meryvega1249]

@@olgalugo7377 SI, Y EL JIBARO DIJO UJU.

[@cdot518official3]

Paciencia y fe mi amigos. Nuestra tierra sera libre pronto.

[@calebplant3491]

Puerto Rico va a Ser Estado...Brega con Eso.

[@wilbertmiranda954]

@@calebplant3491 Y si es así como tú dices, entonces porqué a estas alturas de tanto arrodillamientos de ustedes los lados pend del chats del Rucky Robello no lo han logrado???? Brega con eso papalote. 🤪

[@pyropapi2470]

@@calebplant3491 si pa que los gringos se queden con todo Puerto Rico como ya lo están haciendo 🤣 SIN BANDERA

[@ejproficial]

¡¡¡WEPAAAAA!!! 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷💥💥💥

[@lacrema9843]

😂😂😹😂😂😂🤣💥🔫👿🤬

[@Vacaverde787]

Excelente micro documental!! No soy fanática de la política pero estoy muy de acuerdo en que si queremos ser libres tenemos que comenzar a sembrar lo que comemos. La realidad es que este estado se trabaja con esfuerzo, en ovaciones escucho mucha gente esperando que el gobierno haga todo o algo por ellos y me indigno. Tenemos que movernos, tenemos que hacer, tenemos que producir nuestra propia comida. Hoy en día las pocas cosechas qué hay se pierden porque no hay mano de obra para recoger los frutos. Yo soy Puerto Rico y yo trabajo mi finca para que produzca alimentos y no dependo del supermercado. Tenemos que sembrar a Puerto Rico!!!

[@Boricua-ni4nb]

Ser LIBRES!PEro QN NO EsLibre enPR? No seanCoME M. ..patriotas Trasnochaos...viviendo d todas las ayudas federales,y mandan a estudiar los hijos aUSA!LACRAS HIPoCRiTaS!

[@ejproficial]

Yo me quiero comprar una hacienda en las montañas para sembrar y ofrecer trabajo para los q no pueden trabajar. Lo bueno es q lo q cosecharemos no lo tendremos q exportar para importarlo a la isla otra vez.

[@ejproficial]

Por ende lo q es producido aquí será fresco del campo, no podrío y lleno d químicos como lo hacen en Geingolandia.

[@Boricua-ni4nb]

@@ejproficial usted está todavía ,en el romanticismo de los años 20,andaremos descalzos ycon unayagua como vestimenta y un cuchillo en la boca..estamos en el 2021!usted anda en un BMW,o una carreta d bueyes?please....

[@Boricua-ni4nb]

PR está sembrado d Vagos.,es la realidad!Mr King.

[@betancourt10fitness54]

I support statehood but also will support indepence! I love Puerto Rico my family comes from the beautiful island and just want to see the island improve and thrive!

[@melil8661]

If Puerto Rico gets statehood in all reality it will change dramatically and will not be Puerto Rico anymore. Puerto Rico is a very beautiful place and I would hate to see it taken over. Puerto Ricans should absolutely get the same benefits as everyone else regardless of statehood seeing our government can take care of other people. But giving up and letting our government take over sounds like a horrible idea

[@rafaeltorres2886]

Puerto needs to be its own Country.

[@adiaz9201]

Why? And what plans are in Place for independence? You just can’t say I want independence with your balls in your hands.

[@derekrg7411]

@@adiaz9201 Se comienza creando una economía de producción y no de consumo. Porque importando el 95% de los productos que consumimos no llegaremos a nada. Fomentando la economía de producción comenzaremos a ser autodependientes y no dependientes al 100 de EU. Eso es un proceso que tomará tiempo, no de un día para otros como muchos creen. Recuerda que PR le da más de 70 Billones de $ al año a EU gracias a las leyes maritimas, mega tiendas, empresas, fabricas y todos esos productos que consumimos. Luego devuelven 12-15 billones disfrazados de ayudas federales y todavía la gente sin educación tiene la audacia de decir que PR son unos mantenidos y que no serian nada sin EU. Primero estudie y luego opine, que lo que dan es bochorno.

[@mariposataino3733]

@@derekrg7411 waste time responding to ignorance like that

[@cdiz765]

Pueeto Rico should rejoin Spain

[@adiaz9201]

@@cdiz765 why? What did spain ever do for Puerto Rico? Puerto Rico was in poverty throughout the entire history since spain had them. The USA made Puerto Rico. And Puerto Rican’s are at least half of them are ungrateful. You don’t know what you have until you don’t have it anymore. You must be a dump person to even suggest that. Spain has a very poor economy, they won’t give like the USA has. Cmon man

[@lizbethartemis4886]

Velazquez and Ocasio - they both are living the good life in NY & DC.

[@kiaracarmona101]

The majority of puertoricans do not want to be de 51th state, just a small group

[@pyropapi2470]

Facts

[@tropicalramen7835]

People that want a state are just given more attention because that’s the narrative

[@ejproficial]

Literalmente I totally 100% agree with you

[@Subject82]

51% isn't a small group. It's about 1/2 citizens. You say that byt most of the statehood supporters are closet statehooders because they don't want to be called boot lickers or vende patria for their ideals. Politics can sometimes be toxic....

[@Stitchboy3]

que viva Puerto Rico 🇵🇷

[@lindarivera5087]

Para todos ❤️

[@anlo5385]

Puerto Rico was an autonomy of Spain. I vote for the reunification of the island with our motherland Spain.

[@jaimepastoriza4220]

Me to 🇵🇷🇪🇸

[@focusst273]

Me two!

[@ab9840]

No.

[@kyshac81]

So you want to be recolonized by Spain? Another European power?

[@adamblack8824]

Too bad Spain doesn't want the burden.

[@jada1015]

Free Puerto rico 🇵🇷

[@lautaroaguilar9584]

Couldn’t get independence from Spain for 400 years, but ok. 🤣🤣🤣

[@willam779]

@@lautaroaguilar9584 your Puerto Rican obsession is showing🐀🐷🇺🇸

[@LoneWolfj11]

@@lautaroaguilar9584 I feel bad for people like you. You have to spew your ignorance and hate on the internet simply because you hate your own life. Life sucks, get over it.

[@pgum123gonowplayread4]

economy first

[@ejproficial]

Éste video me hizo llorar

[@rosendomartinez1867]

Aibonito en la casa 💪🔥🔥

[@aCozyManatee]

Independence for Puerto Rico!

[@yielenedizz]

No

[@aCozyManatee]

@@yielenedizz yes

[@pyropapi2470]

@@yielenedizz coje cupone

[@yielenedizz]

@@pyropapi2470 Equivocado los cupones para los pobres y los arrimados yo soy enfermera y me gano un buen sueldo así que equivocado .PR no es lo que muchos envidiosos piensan , hay vagos pero somos más los que trabajamos como en todo país.

[@pyropapi2470]

@@yielenedizz si claro pero Puerto Rico cria mas bagos que cualquier otro pais latino.

[@edwinrodriguez-gs8cv]

I'm puertoriquen... born...raised...family developed...and with a job and when God decides to take my soul to leave this earth...its going to be leaving my home and only loved home,PUERTO RICO...why? .becuz I love P.R.and it will always be that way..God bless my island and its people no matter what issues were going through.🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@rememberyourfuture]

Being Puerto Rican and Watching this makes my blood boil 😡😡🤬

[@pyropapi2470]

Right, we become a state and the PR flag won’t exist anymore

[@ejproficial]

Preech

[@nancysrios]

Puerto Rico turned down Statehood three times.

[@ContrarianExpatriate]

I love how the people there ignore the local, gross mismanagement and corruption that gave rise to the current financial state.

[@ejproficial]

Literally

[@edwingonzalez8840]

Great reporting! Thank you

[@marieecruz2004]

My island shouldn’t become a state! Libre 🇵🇷

[@Damnmac1]

Do you feel american?

[@LS-ti1rz]

It looks as if many of our younger generation of persons of Puerto Rican descent are trying to do their part with making Puerto Rico viable and self sufficient. It can be done but it will take a great deal of integrity and that his been sorely lacking with the politicians on the Island. They mostly seem to only care about filling their personal coffers. I would like to see young Puerto Ricans, successful Puerto Ricans to go back and take their Island back. We need a massive migration back to the Island. Just like Israel did when it first settled in the midst of the middle east. It can be done but it must be for the right reasons to keep the Puerto Rican identity and culture alive and thriving. It is a shame to allow the Island to be swallowed up by Wealthy non Puerto Ricans that could care less about keeping Puerto Rico's identity intact.

[@VampirelaPR]

BEING A STATE DOESN'T MAKE SENSE 🇵🇷❤

[@Alex-ci7si]

Puerto Rico libre ✊🏼

[@BrooklynsFinest34]

Get rid of all those colonizers, get rid of that new governor, gain independence from the USA & allow my beautiful people to solve their own problems with the new leaders. Every real Hawaiian I've ever known told me the same things, do not allow statehood, or you will lose your culture all together.

[@pgum123gonowplayread4]

Thanks to bringing up that not all is good and right and in the 50 states however the issue is the intent of the politicians and what way and what would they actually like to address

[@jameslevin9720]

Agree 1000%, and all puerto ricans in the US should also return, or be branded traitor who served the colonizers, i wish BLM have this mentality, y'know move back to africa with pride or something like that, im asian, and we love colonizers, so we will stay in the US and take care of the thing you cool and awesome people left behind, i support PR people in their quest to gain their independence and return to motherland and preserve their culture, all of them.

[@pgum123gonowplayread4]

@@jameslevin9720 You do realize that is about a few centuries since many of the Black American ancestry came from the African continent and that for people who support BLM whether they still look black or their ancestry somehow makes them look white now, it would be near a death sentence to be sent off to the African continent because lack of knowledge in the region's culture, a person may not realize that they are defended from one clan so when (BUT RATHER IF) they choose to live in a certain region of Africa and miraculously be able to start learning the language and a few basics their child might accidentally be born with the racial features of a clan that would not be commonly seen in that area plus the outsider thing Moreover, whether for PR or for people of black ancestry, YOU DO realize that the upheaval would cause an economic backlash of GREAT proportions right? And let me tell you a little something, some people side with the US in the PR independence debate maybe not completely of their own solitary individual fault, notice the focus on solitary individual, as it is the job of each and every person to learn what they can but the things related to unfortunate or greedy politician that sides with the US being swiped clean off of the history books, oh and there is also the fact that PR right now, as it is, has issues with people's jobs something maybe not completely characterized, but lets just say you put an add of looking for help for blah type of jobs, then you get tons of calls of people wanting the work, obviously you are one of the few (most of the time) of those work ads that that worker may have found... as in there are lots of issues finding a job... also, you have a particular skill set, hope you have happy hunting finding a work place that exists that works with your skill set, pays at least a semi livable wage, near your home (ish), and actually has room to hire you Also, as a rule of thumb, anything that comes suddenly to become the new hope for the PR insular economy will receive backlash of sorts that will either A make it into an average working part of the economy and not the hope B fake hope C completely destroyed is the dream for that part of economy to continue for more than a few years Also, what time frame? what time frame would you propose? What ways do you think the forcing of people back into ancestral lands will have in the conditions of the government forcing that exodus? As in will it become an authoritarian government? Will it lead to some kind of backlash which would lead to economic backlash because of the exodus itself? Something like that?

[@BrooklynsFinest34]

@@jameslevin9720 I 1000% agree with you too. Stay here with the colonizers that hate you too. I see what your people are doing in Africa. Not all are like you or have your mentality. Question, are you okay with an epidemic, that police officers have been killing black people for hundreds of year's since the "overseers" (officer's) did in slavery times? & don't answer my question with one of your own questions, yes or no will suffice, & why if you answered yes?

[@ninahndz5880]

Many Hawaiians are Puerto Rican descendants as they migrated to Oahu 130 yrs ago💖

[@ed32bj]

If Israel can be a autonomous and potent country in middle of a desert then Puerto Rico should be granted its independence to create its own destiny and maintain ties with its former colonizer or if it chooses not to.

[@Damnmac1]

Its better off connected to the usa

[@rick3747]

@@Damnmac1 Why so mainland taxpayers can continue paying for over 40% of PR to sit and collect Welfare?

[@Damnmac1]

@@rick3747 its our responsibility. They are all American citizens. Puerto Rico belongs to America. We must help it develop.

[@TerpsMatterPodcast]

@@rick3747 the United States gets more 💰from PR then what they get back.

[@cdiz765]

Puerto Rico needs to rejoin Spain

[@stacybinder3709]

Really good reporting showing both sides if the argument and the realities of United States abuse of this beautiful island. Wish there was discussion about the “board” the US imposed and whats happening with that too. Alot to unpack in under 30min though. Please continue to report on PR and spread the word.

[@lacrema9843]

I just wish USA let Puerto Rico be Independent. I want to see who will provide them with 💰💰Probably Venrnzuela or Cuba

[@olgalugo7377]

Puerto Rico also provides $ to the economy of the USA it's a two way street and yes we can survive or maybe not you mamalon

[@IslenoGutierrez]

Without US, PR would be like Cuba or Venezuela probably

[@danny31originalapesfamily70]

Te amo borinquen 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🇵🇷✌️

[@ruthetoledozayas4350]

It really hurts. I love my island

[@hugomartinez8114]

Mi isla bella, Libertad Boriquen bello.

[@PHlophe]

Libertad ? Dios mio. with jake Paul there ? oh well , dream on

[@CptFugu]

The lack of Economic development is at the core of this problem. If the local and federal gov paid real attention to that we'd make the whole political question moot. We are, however, governed by people who have demonstrated abject ignorance on economic matters. They are also prone to condoning fraud, abuse, and corruption in government. There is no way, under any political status, that PR can get out of the hole without breaking the traditional political system's back. The old parties need to go, and we need hard-coded limits to government taxing and budgeting in the constitution. We also need more emphasis on corruption detection and punishment. We need to rethink our democracy to make it less dependent on the short term populism of the PPD, and PNP. The Americans like to say, "Beggar's can't be choosers". We've been turned into beggars by our dependency on handouts instead of economic independence. If we can build a sustainable economy it'd be us telling the US what we can be rather than them telling us what we can't.

[@Card75]

I love ❤️ my island 🏝 Isla del Encanto 🙏🏼

[@nopenope8364]

Siiii

[@lacrema9843]

If you really love PR go back to you island and see what could do to make it better

[@kingdmind]

@@lacrema9843 people shouldnt have to be displaced and leave in the first place. That is the US’s responsability after choosing to invade, conquer and colonizing the Island. PR isnt responsible for the actions the US has commited against it

[@dorisq9241]

Thank You! Mil Gracias

[@butchmitch731]

Well done. Sad truth. Una disgracia desconocido. Gracias. You are, respectfully, distractinglly, beautiful.

[@yosoydpfknr2855]

PR its so fked up thanks to Rosello,Anibal ,Pierluisi, Calderón, Thomas, but Pierluisi did the worse part

[@TheLWord75]

Fortuno did the worst; followed by Pierluisi.

[@ejproficial]

Y Fortuño

[@ejproficial]

¡¡¡INDEPENDENCIA PUÑETAAAAAAA!!! 🇵🇷💥💥💥

[@miriammatos3069]

This is just or similar to what happened to Hawaii. Gated communities have been in Puerto Rico for over 30 years in many towns in the island, were many Puerto Ricans have homes. Dorado has always been the home for many Americans as lawyers, CEOs, supervisor of many companies.

[@roxxanadiaz8487]

Of course. They are cowards

[@johnnyvudoe]

Puerto Rico deserves its independence 💯🖤

[@Mklpz000]

Yeah ok... then who is going to help Puerto Rico when Hurricane hits again? Hurricanes Irma and Maria caused billions of dollars in damages in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands in 2017, and the recovery continues. As of August 2022, FEMA has awarded about $32.2 billion and $304.8 million for two grant programs that fund recovery projects. You lose all those benefits!

[@johnnyvudoe]

@@Mklpz000 so you would rather rely on someone else instead of taking your destiny in your own hands? How much of that money actually goes to el pueblo? How often are people left with nothing but empty promises?

[@Mklpz000]

@Johnny VúDOE To date, FEMA has obligated over $29 billion in Public Assistance funds for roughly 10,400 projects that will support the rebuilding of a more resilient Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico becomes independent, who is going to fund all this money? Pit Bull? Puerto Rico with out USA is lost!

[@johnnyvudoe]

@@Mklpz000 the people I know on the island have never seen any parts of that money but sure kiss americas boots and give up your sovereignty…. The United States Government’s involvement in Puerto Rico has consisted of testing on the boricua population sterilizing the women, suppressing cultural identity, taking away agricultural rights controlling the ports all behind the guise of “help”. As if the Puerto Rican people can’t control their own destiny like any of the neighboring nations? How can anyone want to stand with the oppressor is beyond me obviously you believe politicians and are either very naive or willfully ignorant.

[@Mklpz000]

@Johnny VúDOE Why will federal "Public Assistance" funding go to the people? You need to learn the difference between individual assistance and public assistance. As stated before, if they are independent who is going going to fund Puerto Rico? The people on the island that relies on the government?

[@msmg730]

Truth to power

[@energysifu]

Puerto Rico was a province of Spain since 1812 and an autonomous province (the first) since 1897. While is true that we are a mixed breed, we are mostly of european origin as DNA studies show, the aboriginal component is very small.

[@miriamcarrasquillo7784]

Sera para algunos . El DNA mio indica tambien raza Taino y Africano y con mucho orgullo!! Libertad para mi Bella nation! Fuera el imperious asesino y abusivo!, Todos pa’ Su casa!!!

[@energysifu]

@@miriamcarrasquillo7784 el estudio refleja que la mayoría es europeo pero puede haber excepciones depende del lugar de la isla que pertenezca.

[@carlosvarela3571]

Well done! 👏

[@henrydominguez2345]

Orgullozo de ser Boricua

[@joerod1990]

Que viva Puerto Rico puñeta! I'll be moving back in 2022, vamos arriba mi gente! 🇵🇷

[@alfredorivera594]

Así es que viva pr

[@Evideloil]

Gracias, Querede, por tan importante documental fílmico.

[@Mr67Stanger]

I miss my little Island-country and my family there. Economic realities and lack of opportunity took me away from my home, but I hope to someday return to stay and be laid to rest when the time comes, in my beloved terruñito.

[@angelacevedo8824]

Viva Puerto Rico libre..... We need a purge for all corrupt politicians ASAP.

[@anactaneustheeleventh2542]

Angel Acevedo Which ones? The American ones or the PR'can ones, I'm Puerto Rican btw.

[@angelacevedo8824]

@@anactaneustheeleventh2542 the PR Govt is very corrupt. The island nothing is working, every single agency is a mess

[@anactaneustheeleventh2542]

@@angelacevedo8824 You telling me!!! I know!!! believe me I know.

[@enriquesepulveda9303]

Angel Acevedo ) We need a Purge of any Politicians like Donald Trump who is like ( Adolf Hitler ) he was trying to low ball Beutiful island 🏝 of PUERTO Rico 🇵🇷 my Birth Place I love ❤ Putin Rico my Mother and Father's owned Property in Caguas, PUERTO RICO 🇵🇷 one question I have ? How come a Commonwealth is not Allowed to Vote ?

[@enriquesepulveda9303]

@@angelacevedo8824 that is a Donald Trump perception he has brain 🧠 Washed American society To believe that big lie that ( PUERTO Rico 🇵🇷 is ❤ is corrupt which is a wrong Perception )

[@robertoortizfxwars]

I am as liberal as they come, but to be fair, this report was VERY one sided.

[@sauceynugget3371]

It’s one sided but it’s not wrong

[@Alex_BF]

I'm not US citizen nor Puertorican. But from the outside, it seems fair to me that the people from Puerto Rico ONLY have a saying in this matter as the young man says towards the end ... so the documentary might be one sided, but from the right side perspective ;-)

[@O1162-l2l]

@@Alex_BF you have to leave in Puerto Rico and then you know there's no reason to make opinion if you don't know and that's the way it is...

[@Alex_BF]

@@O1162-l2l Well it's normal to have an opinion on matters you hear about, no? ;-) As I have an opinion on the Vietnam War for example. And I'm sure you do, too.

[@robertoortizfxwars]

@@Alex_BF First thanks for a reasonable reply. And I agree that people from PR should decide, I was born and bred there. And I assure you, they are only showing one side. There are A LOT of people who are in favor of statehood.

[@funfunyo7523]

This is what statehood will make PR Locals can't afford homes It will.become a playground for the rich Free PR

[@JB-ej2cx]

#FreeCuba! 🇨🇺 🇺🇸

[@FreedomofSpeech865]

Puerto Rico en muchas formas me recuerda a mi bella Costa Rica, solo le faltan volcanes. Mi deseo es jubilarme allá por la facilidad de mi familia para visitarme. Los Boricuas son muy alegres a pesar de todo y es muy bueno ver el activismo.

[@neilifill4819]

PR definitely resembles a colony. Whether they become a state, independent, or stay as is, the people of PR need to be the ones who decide. Not the US Congress.

[@IslenoGutierrez]

That’s what’s gonna happen. Congress is working on a bill that would allow puerto ricans to decide the future of Puerto Rico.

[@IslenoGutierrez]

@@adriandelatorreebro9555 how you know

[@IslenoGutierrez]

@@adriandelatorreebro9555 can you post the link to the story?

[@91dvaz]

This video leaves out a lot of information for instance, many of the properties they say are being bought would never purchased by locals because they are just too expensive. Also, Dorado was always a place where the wealthy lived and wanted to live, nothing new. And finally many of the people that are complaining about the people that are moving in are not paying don’t mention that they themselves don’t pay taxes because they don’t make enough money. I know this because I lived on the island for many years and the majority of people someone find a way to never pay taxes. Talk to anyone that lived and they might tell you the same.

[@julioconsuegra1351]

Agree 💯

[@jezielrios6961]

Stop gentrification in our island! ¡Puerto Rico para los puertorriqueños! 🇵🇷❤️