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“It is incumbent on those people, libertarians, conservatives, and market-friendly independence supporters to organize a new independence movement that is based on individual liberty, private property rights, capitalism, and freedom. If people of Puerto Rico are to ever become a sovereign republic…..”-Frank Worley-Lopez, former supporter of U.S. statehood for Puerto Rico, now a co-founder of the Libertarian party of Puerto Rico

Even the United Nations Decolonization Committee (UNDC) demanded independence for Puerto Rico: “The Special Committee on Decolonization today called on the United States to expedite a process that would allow Puerto Ricans to fully exercise their inalienable right to self-determination and independence, requesting the General Assembly to consider the question of Puerto Rico comprehensively in all its aspects.”-18 June 2012, UNDC statement

In November 2012, Puetro Ricans voted to maintain their current status as a territory (Free Associated State, or commonwealth) of the U.S. empire.  However, in January 2014 the U.S. Congress approved spending $2.5-million USD to convince the people of  Puerto Rico to vote for statehood.  This is the first time tax dollars will be spent trying to bribe the population of Puerto Rico to fully join the United States.

The United States took Puerto Rico by force in 1898.  It was Barack Obama who proposed spending $2.5-million to trick Puetro Ricans to join the U.S., as part of his fiscal 2014 budget submitted to Congress in 2013.

Native Americans gearing up for independence