Puerto Rico for Puerto Ricans: Why It Will Always be That Way

In this book, Javier A. Hernández explains in detail why Puerto Rico should never become a U.S. state and expounds as to why Sovereignty, either Independence or Free Association, is the most viable and beneficial solution to Puerto Rico’s colonial problem.

“Puerto Rico for Puerto Ricans: Why It Will Always be That Way” aims on informing you on Puerto Rico’s historical and present realities and hopefully inspire you to care about Puerto Rico’s future and it’s struggle for freedom, democracy, and independence. This book, while explaining the dire political, economic, and cultural consequences of statehood, also aims to explain the “colonial mentality” and to educate the Puerto Rican nation and Americans about the benefits, opportunities, and the great economic potential that sovereignty and nationhood would offer Puerto Rico.

Puerto Ricans, as an enslaved colonial nation ruled by the United States, are entitled to freedom and independence…nothing more, nothing less. Both Commonwealth and Statehood are existential barriers and threats that attempt to deny Puerto Ricans their very right to exist as a nation.

This book will discuss and detail the top 10 key reasons why the United States should never grant Puerto Rico statehood and why Puerto Ricans would fight such annexation, grouped into three categories, are listed below.

The three categories are as follows:
I. Nationality, Language & Culture
II. Dependency & Economics
III. Domestic American & International Politics

The political, economic, and cultural implications of statehood for Puerto Rico must be properly considered by Americans and Puerto Ricans.

The author affirms: “After 124 years of humiliating and economically disastrous U.S. colonial rule, it’s time for Puerto Rico’s future to be in Puerto Rico’s hands. After over half a millennium of colonial rule and resistance, Puerto Ricans deserve their freedom. This book shows the path of freedom that Puerto Rico must take to ensure its future as a nation and its economic success in the world."