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Juan Gonzalez on Obama's Plan To Make First Presidential Visit to Puerto Rico Since Kennedy in 1961
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May 25, 2011
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President Barack Obama has announced he will visit Puerto Rico next month, fulfilling his 2008 campaign promise and making him the first U.S. President to visit to the island since John Kennedy's trip almost 50 years ago. A task force recently called on the United States to resolve the issue of Puerto Rico's statehood by 2012. "All of the four million people on the island and those in the U.S. are U.S. citizens, but they inhabit a territory that is separate and distinct from the rest of the United States that has its own language, culture, and history," notes Juan Gonzalez, who writes about the country in his newly revised book, "Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America." "It is this identity problem that really is reflection of the continuing colonial—Puerto Rico is the last major colony of the United States, one of the last remaining colonies in the world," Gonzalez said on Democracy Now! May 25.
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