Posts Categorized: Statehood

George Laws Garcia, Executive Director of the Puerto Rico Statehood Council, had the opportunity to join Students for D.C. Statehood of Howard University and Dr. Oye Owolewa, the shadow representative… Read more »

Puerto Rico rejected continuing as a territory and chose statehood in the 2012 and 2017 plebiscites. Polls in the states and on the Island continue to show that statehood is… Read more »

Federal Judge William G. Young ruled on the difference between the treatment of Puerto Rico and the states in three federal programs. The programs involved in the court case: Supplemental… Read more »

Back in 2014, the federal government set aside $2.5 million to plan and undertake a status vote in Puerto Rico, with voter education so that all the options would be… Read more »

  Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon, Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico, spoke at a hearing on voting rights in the territories held by the Committee on House Administration Subcommittee on Elections on Tuesday…. Read more »