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SEPARATE VIEWS OF
CO - HAIRMAN LUIS MUNOZ MARIN
The 21 sections of this proposed Compact have, of course, my
support of their intention and their substance and, practically all of
them, of their specific language. I have only one general comment
and two particular ones to make.
The Commonwealth is a creative product of the people of
Puerto Rico and the Congress of the United States. As such, it is
open to further growth. It is a proud and practical creation in that
it is specifically adapted to the economic and cultural realities of
Puerto Rico in a relationship to the United States Government and
people that has been considered and treated from the beginning as
a new concept in the United States Federal system. It is in this
relationship that a great economic progress has been achieved.
Since the Commonwealth was established, gross income has mul-
tiplied in current dollars by 7-in constant dollars by 3-to give
only one eloquent indicator. Puerto Rico is the sixth largest buyer
of United States goods in the world (after Canada, Britain,
Germany, France, Japan), and first by far in the Latin American
part of the Western hemisphere. It is, except among extreme leftist
doctrinaires, a pride and a credit to the practical and imaginative
quality of United States dealings with a people living in a very
densely populated island of Hispanic culture and language, and
scarce in natural resources. It shows that the political genius of the
United States can transcend the classical concept of federated
statehood while by-passing a colonial link repudiated by the spirit
of the American people.
Statehood and independence, which are profoundly respect-
able political concepts, are inapplicable in the United
States-Puerto Rico relationship. Fiscal autonomy, which Puerto
Rico has under the Commonwealth, is inexorably necessary to its
survival and hope of continued progress. The Federal relationship,
53
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