Puerto Rico’s Independence Movement Is Gaining Strength

In a recent in the city of Nashville, former Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris spoke about the need to “revisit” several questions about the US political system: the Electoral College, the Supreme Court, and statehood for Puerto Rico and Washington, DC. While the US media was keen to pick up on her comments about the Electoral College and the court, the mention of Puerto Rico was an afterthought.speech The call for Puerto Rican statehood has become a recurring theme in the…