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Stephen Breyer's Ice Cream's avatar

Can anyone educate me regarding the reason we care about Puerto Rico? Like, why do we still maintain control of it? Is it a military thing? Rich person vacation spot? I'm genuinely confused and curious about this.

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Dave Infante's avatar

Good piece, Jack. I assume you've read 'How to Hide an Empire' but if not I found it fairly illuminating as a person who has only rudimentary education on the U.S.'s grim subjugation, neglect, and malice of colonial Puerto Rico. If you haven't, I recommend it, may be a little surface-level for you on PR but connected a lot of dots for me between PR, the Philippines, Northern Marianas, Alaska, etc.

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