This news is hitting big time big here but most likely not being mentioned much in the US or elsewhere with the exception of Spanish language news programs in the US and some other Latin American nations.
The US Solicitor General Donald Verrilli said
admitió que esta isla del Caribe de 3,5 millones de habitantes mantiene, sin emplear el término, su condición de colonia a pesar de la representación que Washington hizo en 1953 ante la ONU.
Translation - "admitted that this Caribbean island of 3.5 million habitant maintains, without using the terminology, its condition of colony notwithstanding the representation Washington made in1953 in front of the UN".
In easy language, he is saying for all intended purposes the Constitution of Puerto Rico which the people voted on in 1950's is not worth the paper its written on. That in the end, the US congress is what ultimately has control of PR.
The Governor of PR. reacted by sending a protest letter to the head of the UN. In the 1950's certain pro-independence figures in PR. said that the US was conning the UN about the US getting rid of its colony of PR. Sixty three years later it seems they were right. Supposedly, the Commonwealth created back in the 50's was a pact between the US and PR. But according to the US Solicitor General it was not.
So it seems the Commonwealth party will become the Sovereignty party unless they want to go out of existence since Commonwealth never truly existed. Of course, they were saying on local radio that since PR. is in fact a US colony and not a Commonwealth that the US is responsible for paying off the bonds holders if the island government cannot pay them off which is in doubt that they will be able too. Supposedly, almost One billion in interest is due sometime in January.
I think that in the end the US will have to finally let PR. do its own thing by giving PR. more sovereignty.
So what do you think NS.
Two news articles from today but they are not in English
Article 1 - http://diariodigital.com.do/2015/12/28/ ... -ante-onu/
Article 2 - http://www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/poli ... u-2143910/