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Guarionex5, I don't understand your posting. Perhaps I don't understand your English. Were you referring to the few months between being a Spanish colony and an American possession, back in 1898? Maybe we should sing: "If I were a richman..."?
Then, again, do you think that Spain will take us back like Hernandez Colon tried to do in the late 1980's? So instead of becoming the 51st State we could become the 52nd Province of Spain. I talked with a Spaniard a few years ago and he told me point blank that they don't eat rice, that they are European and eat potatoes: doesn't seem to me they are eager to take us back. If we became Independent we could compete with the Dominican Republic for the hegemony of the Caribbean. Perhaps we could develop closer ties with Colombia (I doubt that Venezuela would care to let us sharecrop [arrimarnos]); already the Colombian Drug Lords have the mayors of the towns of Lajas, Guanica, Cabo Rojo, Guayanilla, and other southern municipalities, in their payroll.
Maybe our National Hymn should be "Man of La Mancha".
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