Time for Decision: The United States and Puerto Rico

by Jorge Heine (Editor)

302 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1983

About the author

Jorge Heine is a research professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University, and a former Chilean ambassador to China, India and South Africa.

Reviews

[Samuel P · Rating 5 out of 5]

Jorge Heine joined together leading Puerto Rican scholars and thinkers during the crucial inflection point of the early 1980s. There was no better time for decision on what the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico wanted for its future. While each author varied on a spectrum of to what extent statehood was likely to happen and its effects, they all showed pessimistic optimism that a brighter future lay ahead for the island. Unfortunately, 40 years later, it is clear that Puerto Rico chose to do nothing: no statehood, independence, or improved autonomy. Declining stagnation is the order of the day, but this book demonstrated that it did not have to be so.