Decolonization Models for America's Last Colony

The island of Puerto Rico suffers from a stagnant economy, devastating unemployment, and severely limited political autonomy. In this book, Collado-Schwarz addresses the more than a century-old relationship between Puerto Rico and the United States and presents compelling decolonization strategies. 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 sovereignty, 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. Book jacket.

ngel Collado-Schwarz is the founder and chairman of the Fundacin Voz del Centro, a cultural nongovernmental organization, and the producer and host of the radio program La Voz del Centro. He is the author of four books including Voces de la cultura 1, Voces de la cultura 2, Voces de la cultura 3, and Soberanas exitosas.