Not only are its people more polarized than ever over Puerto Rico's
status question — whether to become a
sovereign nation, become a state of the U.S. or stay
as it is; it is the most impoverished North American territory, with an external debt of over $ 7 billion, an unemployment rate of more than 20 per cent, 65 per cent of its people on federal food stamps and 38 per cent who have an income below the poverty line.
Protocol usually follows political
status, but is this a case when protocol might lead to a more firmly grounded recognition of the First
Nations as sovereign n
Nations as sovereign nationsnations?