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Re:The Media Has Neglected Puerto Rico by briandear on Monday October 02, 2017 @09:54PM (#15389507)
Puerto Rico ought not be a state, it should be independent. Why the US would want to annex PR would be a mystery to me.
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Re:The Media Has Neglected Puerto Rico by maxerickson on Monday October 02, 2017 @10:00PM (#15389541)
Why the US would want to annex PR would be a mystery to me.

That doesn't make any sense. The US already did that.

It's a matter of undoing it or giving it equal status with states, not a matter of claiming control of the territory.

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Re:The Media Has Neglected Puerto Rico by blackbagboys on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @12:47AM (#15390240)
The Puerto Ricans themselves disagree, as they've never voted for independence in any of the referendums on the issue that have been held over the last fifty years.
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Re:The Media Has Neglected Puerto Rico by astura on Monday October 02, 2017 @10:15PM (#15389605)
The US can't "annex" Puerto Rico, that has long been done; Puerto Rico has been American territory since 1899.

For how it got that way, Spain agreed to succeeded it to end of the Spanish-American war.

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Re:The Media Has Neglected Puerto Rico by labster on Monday October 02, 2017 @11:06PM (#15389823)
The word you're looking for is cede, pronounced the same as seed. The noun form is cession, because English is super complicated.
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