Mastodawn

me before: PR going back to Spain is a hard-line right-wing position for sure

me now: wait. Becoming a Spanish "nationality" would basically mean PR is heavily autonomous, while still having "federal" representation, protecting its culture/language stuff, and people wouldn't need to be afraid of us "ending up like our neighbors", which seems to be a big hangup? And we'd get EU membership as a nice side?

I feel like I need to think about this more, but it's looking really fucking nice compared to becoming a US state or the current status, and it would ease fears about having to fare for ourselves?

Other boricuas only: What are y'all's thoughts?

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Lucas Francisco Fryzek

@zkat soy medio puertorriqueño solo y nunca he vivido en la isla 😅 but I have lived in Spain and specifically in the canary islands and I think if you just look at the status quo right now Puerto Rico would probably be in a better position if it stayed part of Spain. Thank being said there is contention around the canary islands being someone second class in Spain and I think Puerto Rico would have the same or worse treatment as canarias.

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Lucas Francisco Fryzek 2d ago

@zkat Also there is similar problems there to Puerto Rico today, i.e rich guiris buying about all the land and turning into Airbnb's, very little real industry except for tourism where most of the money goes to either mainland Spain or elsewhere in Europe and the locals working get paid little.

I think the argument for full independence is better for Puerto Ricans to control their own destiny. But also I'm not living the situation on the island so like my opinion is barely worth anything.