Decolonization Models for America’s Last Colony: Puerto Rico

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253 Index Acevedo-Vilá, Aníbal, 165, 208 Acheson, Dean, 184 advertising industry, 211 “Agricultural Country Without Agriculture , An” (newspaper article), 190–92 agriculture: in Estonia, 148, 151, 154; in Ireland, 79, 80, 84, 87–88, 176; in Israel, 32, 100, 101, 102–4, 105, 112, 191; in New Zealand, 121, 122–24, 127, 128, 130; in Puerto Rico, 32–33, 80, 103–6, 112, 154, 190–92, 196–98; in Singapore, 44; in Slovenia, 68 agrotechnology parks, 44 airlines, 46 Alaska, 199–201, 203 “Alaskan Statehood” (newspaper article), 199–201 Albizu Campos, Pedro, 10, 79, 79n1 annexation. See statehood Anthony, Marc, 236 antisocial behavior, 21 Applied Materials, 206 aquaculture, 179 Arawaks, 1 Argentina, 131, 166, 167 Asia, 231–33. See also China “Asia Headed Toward the Lead” (newspaper article), 231–33 assimilation, 150 athletes, xxxi Atlantic Charter, xxvii, 11, 240 Australia, 120, 125, 126 authoritarian culture, 38–39 automobile industry, 232 Autonomic Charter (Spain, 1897), xxviii, 6 Bahamas, 181–83 “Bahamas, Small Yet Sovereign, The” (newspaper article), 181–83 balanced budget, 143 Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, 50 Bangalore, India, 184–86 Banker Magazine, The, 182 Bankers Club, 37, 210–12 “Bankers Club and Puerto Rico, The” (newspaper article), 210–12 banking system, 20, 210, 211 Barbosa, José Celso, 172 Battle for Alaska Statehood, The (Gruening), 199 Beijing Genomic Institute, 232 benefits, employee, 94 Berríos, Rubén, 216 Betances, Ramón Emeterio, xxx Bolivia, 168 Italic page numbers denote illustrations and tables. 254  Index bonds, 21 border control, 223–24 Botín, Emilio, xx–xxi Boumediene v. Bush, xxviii Bourbon Dynasty, 4 Bowles, Chester, 184 Brazil, 33, 166, 167 Brezhnev, Leonid, 140 BRIC study, 231 “Bride Refuses to Marry, The” (newspaper article), 172–74 Brioni Agreement, 60 British Commonwealth, xxxii, 181. See also Great Britain brokerage firms, 211 Brookings Institution, 48, 116, 130, 164 bubble burst, 77, 139 Buchanan, Pat, 223–24 Bush, Boumediene v. , xxviii Bush, George H. W., xx, xxx, 173, 216, 217 Bush, George W., xxiv, 19, 173, 205 business tourism, 45–46 cabotage laws, 31, 49, 51, 163–65, 191 cacicazgos, 2 Calderón, Sila, 208 California, 188 Canada, 49 capital, 49. See also domestic capital; foreign investment; human capital “Capital Access Index” (The Economist), 49 capital gains, repatriation of, 41 capitalism, 101–2, 115 Captaincy General, 3 Carrión, Rafael “Papi,” 37 Casals, Marta, xxxi Catalá-Oliveras, Francisco, xvii; interview on Estonia, 139–56; interview on Ireland, 78–94; interview on Israel, 99–116; interview on New Zealand, 119–36; interview on Singapore, 37–54; interview on Slovenia, 57–73 cell phones, 150 cement industry, 211 census (1899), 6–7 Center for the New Economy, 48, 116, 130 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), World Factbook, xiv, 127, 130, 152, 159 Central Providence Fund (Singapore), 46 Chamber of Delegates, 7 change, absolute vs. structural, 154 Chase Manhattan Bank, 210 Chávez, Hugo, 167 chemical industry, 87, 106 child abuse, 194 Chile, 167 China: Alaskan statehood and, 200; economic growth in, 166; emerging economy of, 33; foreign investment by, 70–71; future of, xxi–xxii, 231–32; Korean War and, 239; Latin America and, 32, 166–68; Singapore and, 42, 47; solar energy in, 206; US public debt held by, xxii “China and Latin America” (newspaper article), 166–68 China–Caribbean Economic and Trade Cooperation Forum, 168 Churchill, Winston, xxvii CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), World Factbook, xiv, 127, 130, 152, 159 citizenship, 7, 8, 216 Clark, Helen, 121 climate change, 188, 197 Coast Guard (United States), 214 coffee, 8, 104, 191, 196 Coldeco, 167 Cold War, 11, 200, 203, 239 Index  255 Columbus, Christopher, 2, 181 Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, xiii, 221 Committee on Natural Resources, xiii, xxiii–xxiv, 216, 221–22 Commonwealth Employees Association, 181 commonwealth status: Cold War and, 239–41; Heine on, xix; history of, xxv, xxix, 243; Report by the President’s Task Force on Puerto Rico’s Status on, xxiv, 222; United Nations on, vii communications, 30, 211 Communist League, 59, 64 Concepción de Gracia, Gilberto, 29 Confucius, xxvi Constitution of the United States, xiii, xxiii–xxiv, xxv, xxviii, 219–20, 221–22 Constitution (Puerto Rico), 6, 12 construction industry, 24, 27–38, 45, 77, 86–87 consumers, 163–65 consumption tax, 126 Cook, James, 120 Cook Islands, 134–35 cooperatives, 47 coral reefs, 179 Córdova-Dávila, Félix, xix corporations, 46–47, 205–6, 210–12 Corrada-del-Río, Baltasar, 216 credit...