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Puerto Rico: Climate Cloaks Tensions.
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( 5 pp) The mild tropical climate of Puerto Rico
cloaks some of the tensions that are building on
this island nation. Puerto Rico remained under
Spanish rule until 1898, when , as a result of the
Spanish-American War, the island was ceded to the
United States in 1917. Puerto Rico remains a U.S.
territory with an internal self-government and has
been under a commonwealth form of government since
1952. Its citizens have no voting rights, and it
and does not have any voting representative in the
Congress of the United States. Bibliography lists
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