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Jill Stein
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Below, see what Jill Stein and the 2016 Green Party Platform said about Puerto Rico.

Green Party Stein on Puerto Rico

  • In a Facebook live video on July 12, 2016, Jill Stein said that it was "time to stop colonizing Puerto Rico." She continued, "It's time to stop exploiting Puerto Rico, which is the same thing as colonizing. Puerto Rico has provided a more-or-less tax-free environment for U.S. corporations for quite some time. It has provided low-wage workers. Corporations have been free to pollute in Puerto Rico to devastating impact. I think it's time to repay the burden that we have imposed on Puerto Rico. It's time to actually support a bailout for Puerto Rico, as was done, for example, for the auto industry in Detroit." Stein said such a bailout could be financed by reducing military spending.[1]
  • On the subject of Puerto Rican autonomy, Stein also said in her July 2016 Facebook Live video, "I believe we need to give Puerto Rico a real chance to contemplate what kind of a future it wants and what kind of an arrangement is going to work for it. But the overarching issue here is that we don't want an economic control board. ... We need to have democracy rule the day in Puerto Rico."[1]
  • Stein condemned the passage of S 2328 - Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act or PROMESA on June 30, 2016. She wrote in a press release that the deal was "good news for the hedge funds and other financial predators but bad news for Puerto Rico and their impoverished residents."[2]
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Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Facebook, "Jill Stein Live," July 12, 2016
  2. ↑ Jill 2016, "Stein Says Congressional Deal on Puerto Rico Continues Colonial Exploitation," June 30, 2016
  3. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
  4. ↑ Green Party, "The 2016 Green Party Platform on Democracy," accessed August 10, 2016
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