{"id":2927,"date":"2020-12-18T22:02:14","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T22:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=141193"},"modified":"2020-12-18T22:02:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T22:02:14","slug":"puerto-ricans-voted-for-statehood-again-what-happens-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/18\/puerto-ricans-voted-for-statehood-again-what-happens-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Puerto Ricans Voted for Statehood (Again). What Happens Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div data-reactid=\"212\">\n<p><u>On election day<\/u> last month, 52% of Puerto Rican voters answered \u201cyes\u201d to the following question: Should Puerto Rico be admitted immediately into the Union as a State?<\/p>\n<p>But the result of the non-binding referendum has gotten little attention in Washington since then. After all, it\u2019s hardly the first time a statehood vote on the island has been answered in the affirmative. Is this time any different?<\/p>\n<p>On this week\u2019s show, guest host Vanessa A. Bee talks to Julio Ricardo Varela, the founder of LatinoRebels.com, and to Angelo Guisado, a civil rights lawyer at the Center for Constitutional Rights. They examine the past and present of Puerto Rico as a colony and U.S. territory, and how that history should inform our understanding on votes like this one.<\/p>\n<p><em>Transcript coming soon.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/18\/puerto-ricans-voted-for-statehood-again-what-happens-now\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On election day last month, 52% of Puerto Rican voters answered \u201cyes\u201d to the following question: Should Puerto Rico be admitted immediately into the Union as a State?\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[419,420,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2928,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927\/revisions\/2928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}