Puerto Rico, Island and State of Ambiguity - By Esmeralda Santiago (Bloomberg)

It is impossible to be Puerto Rican without someone asking your opinion about the status question. It is in our marrow, our ambivalence about the quasi-citizenship that makes it impossible to be 100 percent Puerto Rican (because we’re American citizens) or 100 percent American (because we’re Puerto Rican), even as we insist that we are one or the other ... read more