This video says about itself:
Puerto Rico: Another Victim of U.S. Colonialism
3 May 2016
Puerto Rico, essentially a U.S. colony, has been crushed by a a debt of $70bn which has led to the closures of schools, and other public cuts. Should the people really be the ones paying for this crisis?
On Monday May 2, what had been announced since last June finally took place; the government of Puerto Rico defaulted on part of a $422 million debt payment that was due on May 1. This is the largest default in Puerto Rican history. It is anticipated that this will be the first of many non-payments this year: here.
Dear Kitty. Some blog 
Reblogged this on renematosruiz6663 and commented:
Puerto Rico 2016
LikeLike
As I have stated before; Puerto Rico had an opportunity to vote for independence so you can not call them a colony. Also, the Puerto Ricans have had a free ride for quite a while by not having to pay property taxes. Also, they have a natural resource that would solve their problems – – – copper lodes in the middle of the island. I agree that mining the copper may very well damage the island. Puerto Rico should have thought about this before they harvested the golden eggs. As an aside, I love the beauty of rural Puerto Rico and the energy of its people. The people that will flee Puerto Rico are those who are educated and can afford leave. The US will be the beneficiaries of these poor policies which have dogged Puerto Rico for so many years. Shame on their leaders.
LikeLike
Hi Waldo, Puerto Ricans very often have not been able to make the case for independence without having to fear for violence or imprisonment.
Look at the family history of Puerto Rican politician Luis Muñoz Marín. That family ‘opposed the military colonial government established by the United States’. Armed anti-independence people threatened that family. They had to flee, first to elsewhere on Puerto Rico; then to New York City:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Mu%C3%B1oz_Mar%C3%ADn#Early_life_and_education
Paradoxically, later that same Luis Muñoz Marín:
“In 1948, the Puerto Rican Senate passed Law 53, also known as the Gag Law, which would restrain the rights of the independence and Nationalist movements in the island. Marin was instrumental in the passage of this law as he was the in control of the Senate at the time. The passage of the law allowed him to arrest any suspected nationalist without cause and or due process and so allowed him to squash any potential question to his authority.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Mu%C3%B1oz_Mar%C3%ADn#Passage_of_Law_53_.28the_Gag_Law.29
There was lethal violence against Puerto Rican striking workers:
https://dearkitty1.wordpress.com/2016/04/04/violent-oppression-of-puerto-rican-workers-1916/
On September 23rd, 2004 the FBI killed Filiberto Ojeda Rios, a Puerto Rican independence leader:
https://dearkitty1.wordpress.com/2011/06/14/puerto-ricans-fight-for-independence/
Puerto Rican pro-independence political prisoners:
https://nacla.org/article/more-25-years-puerto-rican-political-prisoners
LikeLike
The Puerto Ricans only had to fear themselves. One day, while visiting PR, I wanted to go to a political rally because I wished to see how the normal PR approached independence vs commonwealth. My wife, a native of PR, begged me not to go. She informed me that people were often shot at these gatherings. So once again, I believe the blame for anything PR is going through should be laid at their own feet, not the federal government. Could you imagine the results if the USA just cut them loose to fend for themselves?
LikeLike