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DISASTERS: HURRICANES :
PUERTO RICO :
THE CARIBBEAN :
POLICITICAL CORRUPTION :
UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY :
INDUSTRIES: PETROLEUM :
LIBRETARIANISM :
SOCIAL ISSUES:
IMMIGRATION :
RACISM :
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ENVIRONMENT: GLOBAL WARMING AND CLIMATE CHANGE CLIMATE CHANGE: DENIAL:
Puerto Rico’s Difficult Path Forward
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Puerto Rico’s Difficult Path Forward
Updated: October 9, 2017 4:50 PM EDT
by Joseph N. DiStefano, Staff Writer
The Inquirer
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/inq-phillydeals/ puerto-ricos-difficult-path-forward-20171009.html
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Puerto Ricans and U.S. forces will be working for months to get storm-wrecked utilities, hospitals, and communications running.
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The even tougher steps needed to make the island more self-sustaining are well-known, but have been found difficult and left untried, said Anthony Stevens-Arroyo, a native of Philadelphias Puerto Rican diaspora whose long career as priest, professor and family man included testimony on Puerto Ricos future before the United Nations Decolonization Committee (starting in 1978) and the U.S. House of Representatives (1990s):
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Puerto Rico needs to eliminate its dependency on imported sources of energy and stop relying on U.S. fuel imports, Stevens-Arroyo told me. Solar-power companies are already rushing panels and batteries to the island in hopes of restoring the wrecked electrical grid.
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The island faces the same problems as other Caribbean islands and needs to trade and cooperate with them, not just depend on U.S. aid, debt, and fickle corporate investment.
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If the U.S. under Trump cant or wont pay for reconstruction and public services, Puerto Rico should be recognized, not as an independent country a 19th-century concept that few Puerto Ricans support but as an autonomous political entity that has a right to representation within the U.N., like the Palestinians. This would make economic development and trade arrangements with the global community negotiable by Puerto Ricos elected government.
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By contrast, at present the U.S. Congress governs the colony, he said. Though there is still an elected governor and legislator, fiscal power lies with the seven-member PROMESA oversight board, which favors bankers. With United Nations status, Puerto Rico would more likely qualify for participation with the World Bank, UNESCO, and other development grant and loan funders, subject to the fiscal restraints they place on borrower governments.
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