Thank you for your suppor!

They do vote...but there's all sorts of dissuasions occurring here.

I believe they needed a 2/3 plurality to earn statehood. They got a majority in 2012...but not the plurality.

On November 6, 2012, eligible voters in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico were presented with two questions: ... Of those who answered on the second question 834,191 (61.2%) chose statehood, 454,768 (33.3%) chose free association, and 74,895 (5.5%) chose independence.

Statehood movement in Puerto Rico - Wikipedia

[en.wikipedia.org]

Spoken like a true convert. Can you explain what you mean?

@godnot. Sorry, but It had/has little to do with their economic focus. You should do some research first.

There's practically no "socialism"here in P.R. or in Haiti...it's a free market economy. The government is weak and practically non-existent.

Puerto Rico has beautiful beaches, a simple, religious, but family size-aware population, and a potential to be the Hawaii of the East coast if they continue as they are.

The problem is that in Haiti they are unbridled with their reproductive rate.

They reproduce far faster, and have many more children than the average Caribbean nation.

Couple that with their religious focus; almost a cross between Catholicism and voodoo...and you have people praising god for large families, and tolerating the high infant mortality rate.

The nation that shares the same island - the Dominican Republic - is different politically, and economically....but they still suffer a lot of poverty, and large, unplanned families.

But your original comment "only through capitalism" is naive at best. Do some research before you make general comments like that.
[socialistworker.org]

The Caribbean island of Hispaniola is home to two countries: Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Both have a population of around 10 million — but that's about where their similarities end. The average Haitian is nearly 10 times poorer than the average Dominican, and much more likely to be unemployed.Oct 17, 2017

[vox.com]

Thanks....Pictured here is the key player....an associate of his architect son from NYC who came here - leaving a budding enterprise in NYC to get P.R. men and women certified as installers. His name is Robert W. Hyde, and his email is RHyde@analemmasolar.com.

Robert "Wylie" Hyde set up class in Tom's "apartment complex". He's a math whiz and a techie - please share and spread the word!

Lead-acid batteries are cheap, heavy, dangerous to handle and short-lived; but they can be had for as low as 0.09 cents a KWhr. Lithium Ion batteries are expensive, light, safer to handle, and long lived; but they are many times more expensive than lead-acid batteries.

If you or anyone want to talk about funding help, contact Robert Wylie Hyde; CEO of Analemma Solar corp.

His email is WylieR18@yahoo.com.

or

RHyde@analemmasolar.com

Ask him for more info.

He's the man running the classes in this picture, and if you google "Solar Libre" you'll see many more images of him and others working on Solar for Puerto Rico.

@Robecology
Ok, thank you.

And thank you for asking about costs, and ways to contribute.

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