#66: Can Puerto Rico Beat the System?
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Puerto Rico voted overwhelmingly for Statehood on Sunday, but with only 23% turnout. Many Puerto Ricans boycotted the vote because they continue to be overlooked by the U.S. government. So, what’s the best way forward? Working within the system? Or breaking it?
Hosts Maria Hinojosa and Julio Ricardo Varela lead a discussion with Sandra Lilley, Managing Editor of NBC Latino, and Frances Robles, reporter for the New York Times.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's show is brought to you by Jet.com. |
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| 0:10.8 | What does it mean to play outside the system? Storm Congress and Bomb the Place? |
| 0:15.0 | Even Oscar Lopez would tell you that those days are over. |
| 0:18.0 | Hey, welcome to In the Thick. This is a podcast about politics, race, and culture from a POC perspective. |
| 0:26.5 | I'm Maria Ino Hosar. |
| 0:28.0 | And I'm Huillurica Lovaila. |
| 0:29.5 | And joining us here in our Harlem studio back again for an encore Sandra Lili. She's the |
| 0:36.2 | managing editor of NBC Latino. Welcome back Sandra. Thanks for having me. |
| 0:40.4 | And joining us from San Juan Puerto Rico is Francis Robles. |
| 0:45.0 | She's a reporter for the New York Times. Hey Francis, welcome to the show. |
| 0:48.5 | Hi, thanks for having me. |
| 0:50.0 | All right, this week we're going to turn to Puerto Rico because, well, this past Sunday was a really big day for Puerto Ricans, both on the island and state side. |
| 0:59.5 | And we want to talk about Puerto Rico within this specific question. |
| 1:03.3 | Is it better to fight against a system or work within the system? |
| 1:09.3 | On Sunday they had a plebiscite, a public vote, |
| 1:11.7 | about whether to become a state and independent country or remain a Commonwealth. |
| 1:15.6 | Let me just hand it over to Governor Ricardo Rossejo. |
| 1:18.2 | After exercising one of the most sacred rights of our American democracy, an overwhelming majority of the voters who cast their |
| 1:26.2 | ballots to end the current territorial colonial status of Puerto Rico, voted today in favor of becoming the 51st state of the Union. |
| 1:37.0 | Statehood received 97% of the vote, but this happened with only 23% turnout. |
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