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Porto Rico: the American Colony
Marin, Luis Munoz | April 8, 1925 issue

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The gods have made Porto Rico the first colonial experiment of the U.S. In Porto Rico the Americans acquired for permanent use a rather well-rounded civilization by means which, though questioned by not a few, are considered legal and virtuous by current international usage. Here for the first time the American people undertook to boss a foreign culture. The story of Porto Rico is dull: politically, a succession of governors-general, militarily, the building of strong fortifications, a few pirate and foreign raids, nothing on a grand scale, economically, the triumph of after-dinner delicacies over the dinner itself. In the South American wars of independence people took no effective interest.

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CIVILIZATION; CULTURE; STATE succession; GOVERNORS; PUERTO Rico; UNITED States
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