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Decades of FBI Surveillance of Puerto Rican Groups by Mireya Navarro (1621 words) |
 | Puerto Rico, a commonwealth of the United States, has strong pro-statehood and pro-commonwealth movements, the latter made up of those who want to keep the status quo or some modified version of it. |
| Many Americans became aware of the independence struggle when, on Nov. 1, 1950, two Puerto Rican nationalists tried to shoot their way into Blair House, where President Truman was living while the White House was being remodeled. |
| Bosque-Perez was one of the authors of a 1997 book on the Puerto Rican police dossiers, known as "carpetas." He said the first inkling that he was under investigation came in the late 1960's, when he was still in high school and politically active. |
| Puerto Rico Government (1341 words) |
| Puerto Rican institutions control internal affairs unless U.S. law is involved, as in matters of public health and pollution. |
| The major differences between Puerto Rico and the 50 states are its local taxation system and exemption from Internal Revenue Code, its lack of voting representation in either house of the U.S. Congress, the ineligibility of Puerto Ricans to vote in presidential elections, and its lack of assignation of some revenues reserved for the states. |
| Puerto Rico is considered one of the highest records of voter participation in election processes in the world. |
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