Caribbean dependency

Two weeks ago, a post was published on the blog about Puerto Rico, its dependency to the United States and the possibility that Puerto Rico should be granted statehood in the future. I came across an article related which seemed to me interesting regarding Puerto Rico’s dependency.

Last Monday, the governor of Puerto Rico asked for a closer relationship between the FBI and the authorities of Puerto Rico. Criminality is indeed a major problem in Puerto Rico and the government elected last year pledged to bring some order and struggle against crime. Puerto Rico is part of the commonwealth associated with the United States.

The request from Puerto Rico perfectly exemplifies the situation of complete dependency of many small countries and islands of the Western Hemisphere towards the United States. Even though Puerto Rico is not considered as a sovereign country, it is still an island which has its own constitution and enjoys a certain degree of autonomy at least in domestic affairs; however it cannot provide its citizens with the minimum means to fight crime and needs to rely entirely on US capability for that.

Here is a link to the article on that topic.