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Decolonization Models for America’s Last Colony
Puerto Rico
Ángel Collado-Schwarz
Paper $29.95
| 978-0-8156-0963-6
| 2012
"This book should be obligatory reading for those who
believe that Puerto Rico’s future should be more prosperous
than its past."—Moisés Naím, former editor in chief, Foreign Policy
"Underlines the sad political history of Puerto Rico, presents its recent past inadequate economic results and its current calamitous situation, and argues vigorously and convincingly for resolving its colonial status."—James Wolfensohn, president of the World Bank, 1995–2005
"The author combines a bold vision with a fresh approach, both to the island’s current problems and to its potentially prosperous future."—Thomas L. Hughes, former US assistant secretary of state and former president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
"This is an important work which connects the collapse of the Puerto Rican economy with the island’s unresolved political relationship with the United States."—Peter R. Rosenblatt, former ambassador to the Negotiations on the Future Political Status of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
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Ángel Collado-Schwarz is the founder and chairman of the Fundación Voz del
Centro, a cultural NGO, and the producer and host of the radio program La Voz
del Centro, which has aired more than 400 episodes since 2002, in Puerto Rico,
New York, and Chicago, over Univision Radio (www.vozdelcentro.org). Collado-Schwarz has published four books: Voces de la Cultura 1, Voces de la Cultura 2,
Voces de la Cultura 3, and Soberanías Exitosas. All four have been presented at
the Guadalajara International Book Fair, as well as in San Juan. Some have also
been presented in New York, Madrid, Santo Domingo, and La Habana. Born in
Puerto Rico, Collado-Schwarz holds a doctorate in contemporary Latin American
history from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
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The island of Puerto Rico suffers from a stagnant economy, devastating unemployment,
and severely limited political autonomy. In this book, Collado-
Schwarz addresses Puerto Rico’s more than a century-old relationship with
the United States and presents compelling strategies for gaining independence.
Through a series of interviews and newspaper columns, the author
examines six countries similar in size to Puerto Rico that have all successfully
navigated a course to sovereignty: Singapore, Ireland, Israel, New
Zealand, Estonia, and Slovenia. Collado-Schwarz chronicles the political
history of each country, the ways in which each achieved independence,
and what lessons can be applied to Puerto Rico. With cogent analysis and
carefully reasoned arguments, this book will reopen the national dialogue
in the United States about the future of Puerto Rico.
6 x 9, 304 pages, 6 maps, 3 tables, bibliography, index
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