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The Jones Act doesn't govern shipments of export cargo and import cargo in international trade.

Will Lifting The Jones Act Save Puerto Rico?

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Iran, Russia, and Latin America - Update - August 2016

Iran, Russia, and Latin America - Update - August 2016
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Tuesday, July 12, 2016

The times of the "banana republic with American air conditioning" (this is Hoover's brilliant phrase, and you have to give him a credit for it) are gone. The times of statehood: equality and prosperity are coming.

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 "The 2014 budget bill included $2.5 million in funding for a future vote in Puerto Rico's political status. This referendum can be held at any time, as there is no deadline attached to the funds.[18][19] The referendum may be an issue in the 2016 Puerto Rico gubernatorial election.[20]" 

 Where is the money for PR statehood referendum? Have they been disbursed? 
Do they intend to steal it too? 

 Investigate the crooked governor AGP and his "parasites"! 
Investigate the PR branch of the FBI and its previous leadership! 
Investigate the PR division of DOJ! 

 The much suffering Puerto Rican people, reduced to abject poverty, hunger, diseases, 
disenfranchised from the corrupt and rotten political system are the victims of their own incompetent 
politicians. 

 Revamp this contagious, dangerous, stinking cesspool! 
Statehood for Puerto Rico is the only viable solution. 
Schedule the referendum simultaneously with the 2016 gubernatorial elections. 

 "FBI Director Hoover often complained that “Gov. Muñoz Marín wants his own banana republic, with American air conditioning.” This was an accurate and astute observation."

 The times of the "banana republic with American air conditioning" (this is Hoover's brilliant phrase, 
and you have to give him a credit for it) are gone. Now it becomes evident that they were stealing 
even this little modicum of comfort and consolation from their people. 

 The times of statehood: equality and prosperity are coming. This is the inevitable historical and 
political outcome and the way out of the Island's tragedy and catastrophe. The present political clique 
running the Island vehemently resists this change because it means for them the loss of their 
political power and a power to steal. 

 The Puerto Rican people and the US Congress have to make their moves. 
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M.N.: Now it is understandable what are the reasons for this "resistance" to switch to solar energy: they will not be able to steal from the PREPA oil deals.

"The irony in the Puerto Rico debt story is that the island is blessed with abundant sunshine, a resource that is all but ignored in the plan to switch the power authority from its current imported-oil-dependent grid to one tied almost completely to imported natural gas.
Indeed there is inexplicable and staunch institutional resistance in Puerto Rico to harnessing solar energy, which is now cost-competitive with traditional electricity-generation and spreading globally. A report we published in September shows how a new mindset among elected officials and utility managers would help right the ship." 
M.N.: Now it is understandable what are the reasons for this "resistance" to switch to solar energy: they will not be able to steal from the PREPA oil deals. 


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