US Territory Wants to Ditch America and Rejoin Spain

A Caribbean island under United States control is envisioning a future more in line with the Canary Islands.

Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory, has put forward several proposals to cut ties with the U.S. and realign with Spain, over a hundred years after it said goodbye to its former European ruler.

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{snip} The “Adelante Reunificacionistas” political movement, born in 2017, is gaining momentum with its audacious plan for Puerto Rico to reintegrate with Spain as its 18th autonomous community.

The founders of the movement claim that approximately 13% of Puerto Ricans support this idea, viewing it as a pathway to a more prosperous future.

“Puerto Rico never wanted to separate from Spain,” the organization’s president Jose Lara said.

Lara argues that since becoming a U.S. territory, Puerto Rico has experienced over a century “of subjugation” and stagnation under American governance that hasn’t granted them complete citizenship rights.

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