Argument Essay

Puerto Rico walks away from commonwealth.

I will not pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic

for which it stands. This must be the words of thousands of Puerto Ricans living in the island

today wishing that their small island would once and for all become free from the colonization of

the United States. Puerto Rico has been living under U.S. domination for the past 92 years and

it’s considered the last nation in Latin America that is still living in colonization. Puerto Ricans

want to be free and should be allowed to be free; to have the opportunity to vote for the president

who sends its young people to war, to have their own currency, to fly one flag in all their schools

and finally to feel pride in being an independent nation and not labeled with terms like “territory”

and “commonwealth”. Bigger and more powerful nations that inhabit smaller nations for various

benefits should never deny a nation’s culture and roots, instead in these modern times people

should be allowed to govern themselves and be independent nations. In the midst of the struggle

over status (U.S commonwealth or Independency) only one clear realization can come of this,

Puerto Rico ought to be independent and refuse commonwealth to the United States of America.

One of the many benefits citizens from all democratic countries enjoy is the ability to

choose their chief in command. As a commonwealth under the United States, Puerto Rican

citizens cannot vote during the presidential campaign. They are allowed to participate in

presidential primaries but not the final event. This is somewhat of an insult to the younger

generation on the island being sent off to fight wars representing the U.S. having been denied the

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privilege to choose the person who is sending them. As an independent nation Puerto Ricans

would have the right to participate in elections choosing who their leader would be. The island

does have its own elections where...