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The United States waged a revolution to throw off its colonial status, a history which even school children are aware of. So it’s amazing that our government displays a strong resistance to using the word “colony” for Puerto Rico, instead substituting the word “territory” to define the U.S.’s relationship to the island nation.

The Trump administration’s recent efforts to meddle with the island’s economy should be anathema to any U.S. leader espousing the virtues of “democracy.” But there is nothing democratic about our past and present rule of the island.

Puerto Ricans were grante

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