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SUPPORT DEMOCRACY SUPPORT HR 2499

THE PUERTO RICO DEMOCRACY ACT 2009 

 

After over 100 years of political uncertainty, Congressman Pierluisi of Puerto Rico has introduced HR 2499, The Puerto Rico Democracy Act of 2009, to resolve effectively the status uncertainty of Puerto Rico. HR 2499 effectively gives the people of

Puerto Rico the right to vote on two plebiscites that will decide the island’s future association with the United States.

 

HR 2499 - Puerto Rico Democracy Act 2009.pdf

 

www.hr2499.org 

 

http://www.govit.com/vote/congress.aspx?bill=2009-hr-2499

 

Click on links above for more detail

 

 

       

 

 

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