[Sonambulo]

Pessimisim is understandable when we look at the Puerto Rican condition; or more precisely the political-legal future of PUerto Rico. One cannot help but question when the promise of a people will be realized and the obstacles that stand in the way be removed. It is very elusive and then one also realizes that the very people who are most affected have no real clue as to what they think this promise should look like.

Left wingers, socialists, communists, anti-gringos, and a slew of others tend to have similar ideas and often gravitate towards ones another in their clamor for independence of some type. In the same vein we see right wingers, ideologues, pro-gringos, and others scream for statehood in some form.

My personal view has been that Puerto Ricans in the island need to focus on more immediate and pressing issues in order to provide form for whatever the eventual outcome of the slow political process that has been forever unfolding in the island. The status argument has been very disruptive and even destructive to social progress in Puerto Rico. No entity or group has been able to get past this issue, as important as it may be.

May the new year bring good things in Puerto Rico.