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The governor problem The most powerful anti-statehood Puerto Rican is Alejandro Garcia Padilla, the governor of the territory. In June, during an interview with CNN en español, Garcia Padilla said statehood would turn Puerto Rico into a ghetto, a entire country turned into a Latin American ghetto. His party, the Popular Democratic Party, advocates an enhanced commonwealth status, which might allow the territory to conduct its own foreign affairs. That option, as The Hill points out, isnt feasible, since U.S. territories arent allowed to conduct their own foreign policy. The local support problem As members of PDP, along with some congressional Republicans, are quick to point out, the 2012 referendum wasnt a landslide victory for statehood. In fact, last week the partys secretary of federal affairs, José A. Hernández-Mayoral, went so far as to accuse the pro-statehood party of using misleading language on the ballots in an op-ed submitted to The Hill. (Soberano means sovereign):
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