Puerto Rico Declares Bankruptcy http://ift.tt/2q8oRpF (image: @lgbtpr/Twitter) Colonized and exploited by America since 1898, its people, governor and other officials are powerless – ruled by US administrations and Congress. Islanders have no control over their lives, welfare and destiny, no say over foreign relations, commerce, trade, air space, land and offshore waters, immigration and emigration, nationality and citizenship, currency, maritime laws, military service, US bases on its territory, constitutionality of its laws, jurisdictions and legal procedures, treaties, radio and television, communications, agriculture, natural resources and more. For nearly 120 years, it’s been victimized by US imperial rapaciousness. Things finally came to head financially. Puerto Rico is bankrupt, though can’t declare it under US law. It’s a wasteland of high unemployment, poverty and deprivation. Force-fed austerity exacerbates dire economic conditions. Islanders are US citizens without enfranchisement on the mainland. They pay federal taxes, getting back pathetically little in return. They suffer from mismanagement, political greed, widespread corruption, deplorable social services, an
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