Puerto Rico’s Consensus Status Bill

May 26, 2022
5:25 PM

Rep. Nydia Velázquez, D-NY, speaks at a press conference on a compromise bill to resolve Puerto Rico’s political status, Washington, D.C., Thursday, May 19, 2022. (Nydia Velázquez/Twitter)

Does the newly proposed Puerto Rico consensus status bill pose the most serious challenge yet to the island’s colonial status? Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela searches for answers on this historic bill with Rafael Cox Alomar, professor of law at the University of the District of Columbia.