Statehood Activists Confront Governors

Activists on both sides of Puerto Rico’s statehood issue cheered and jeered governors from several Southern states as they prepared to meet with Central American leaders. “Yankee go home! Go your own way. We’ll go ours,” a woman shouted from a platform near the entrance to a resort hotel in Dorado, where the meeting was being held. Their pro-statehood counterparts on the other side of the entrance waved a massive flag bearing 51 stars. Puerto Ricans do not pay federal taxes and have only one nonvoting representative in Congress.