Welcome to the Center for Puerto Rico Equality & Advancement (CPREA), the Center is committed to pursuing a bold, innovative course of policy analysis, education, and action aimed at empowering the people of Puerto Rico to attain their full rights – and discharge their full responsibilities – as citizens of the United States of America.
The Center affirms that the end of the island’s current disenfranchised, dysfunctional territorial status is in the best interests of both the people of Puerto Rico and our fellow citizens on the mainland U.S. The Center also rejects the options of separate sovereignty or independence as inconsistent with the political, economic, and social evolution of the people of Puerto Rico.
As the people of Puerto Rico themselves have declared in the preamble to the island’s 1952 Constitution; “we consider as determining factors in our life our citizenship of the United States of America and our aspiration to continually enrich our democratic heritage in the individual and collective enjoyment of its rights and privileges; our loyalty to the principles of the Federal Constitution; and the coexistence in Puerto Rico of the two great cultures of the American hemisphere.”
We invite you to join us in this exciting endeavor to help Puerto Rico and its 4 million U.S. citizens realize the full promise and potential of their beautiful island, not as second-class stepchildren, but as full and equal brothers and sisters in the family, that is the United States of America.
Sincerely,
Rafael Rodríguez
President and Founder