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Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: One Introvert's Year of Saying Yes

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PREXIT: Forging Puerto Rico’s Path to Sovereignty

by Javier A. Hernández (Goodreads Author)

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Migdalia said: " Great ideas for Puerto Rico's sovereignty

First some context, I'm one of those bilingual, college educated Puerto Ricans who believe the best decolonization option for PR is free association with the US. I live in the island, and so have a local's per Great ideas for Puerto Rico's sovereignty

First some context, I'm one of those bilingual, college educated Puerto Ricans who believe the best decolonization option for PR is free association with the US. I live in the island, and so have a local's perspective of this situation.

While I can say that a lot of Puerto Ricans are still fighting assimilation tactics (I've actually been on the receiving end of criticism and ridicule for speaking English with my son), I don't think PR is so eager to support sovereignty. Colonialism has surely done a number on a lot of people. Whenever the political status comes up on social media (mostly on the local newspapers' social media accounts), I see SO MANY statehooders (who don't seem very educated because their writing is TERRIBLE) ridicule people who support independence or free association. I also have friends from university who support statehood (but didn't major in political science, like I did). While the 2012 local status referendum did show a growing support for this option, statehood won by 61%. I did not participate in the 2017 referendum because I had become increasingly disappointed in the Puerto Ricans who support statehood. That one got a whopping 97% support for statehood because of the boycott and the extremely low turnout. So, as this shows, the vast majority of Puerto Rican VOTERS support statehood even though I really wish otherwise.

Another issue I have with this book is that it doesn't clearly show where all the money needed for all the new government agencies is going to come from. While it does state that with taxes and the end of the Jones Act, we could come up with Puerto Rico's current budget, there are so many new government agencies and services that would need funding that I'm not very confident that we would be able to pull all that off. This book would be much better with a detailed budget analysis. However, I believe Puerto Rico can definitely be a prosperous country if it where liberated from the shackles of colonialism.

Other than that, I found a few typos but they were less than 10, so I didn't factor it into my rating. I give it 4.5 stars but I've rounded it up because I really enjoyed reading this book and actually learned quite a lot from it. I highly recommend this book to anybody wanting to learn about free association as a viable option for Puerto Rico. ...more "

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