As Trump focuses on expanding the U.S. map, residents of Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico have spent years advocating for their own statehood.

The message seemed designed to reach Washington as one administration prepares to hand the baton to the next: If the United ...

Puerto Rico Gov. Jenniffer González-Colón asked President-elect Trump to take action after Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro ...

Trailing her was Juan Dalmau, who represented Puerto Rico’s Independence Party and the Citizen Victory Movement. It was the first time that the Popular Democratic Party, which supports the ...

Trump could make history by leading the charge for Puerto Rican statehood. He would achieve many of the same goals behind his ...

By the eighteenth century, Puerto Rico had become a major exporter of tobacco, coffee, and sugarcane. Yet discontent with colonial rule led to a growing independence movement on the island ...

The star’s “most Puerto Rican album” provided an opportunity to highlight an unsung staple of Caribbean fashion.

Could Congress decide on its own to grant Puerto Rico independence, and deem it no longer a territory of the United States? Or is the United States obligated to maintain a territory forever?

"Contrary to Maduro's and other adversaries' calls for independence, the people of Puerto Rico have repeatedly rejected this option. Instead, we have voted to strengthen our union with the United ...

Jenniffer González Colón has been sworn in as Puerto Rico’s new governor as the island held for a normally ebullient ceremony overshadowed by widespread anger over a blackout that hit the U.S. territo ...

Trailing her was Juan Dalmau, who represented Puerto Rico’s Independence Party and the Citizen Victory Movement. The top candidates for Puerto Rican governor are Jenniffer González of the pro ...