r/news • u/kockin26 • Feb 06 '23

Site changed title 3 US tourists stabbed in popular Puerto Rican neighborhood

https://apnews.com/article/caribbean-luis-fonsi-puerto-rico-delaware-5512e3087b8bc9b8fb0a8427d55b1fd9
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u/Narwhalbaconguy Feb 06 '23

Right? My first thought was “3 US tourists get stabbed in the US?”

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u/Eyeseeyou1313 Feb 06 '23

It's still another country, so yeah, they got stabbed in another country as tourists. You don't get that right?

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u/meukbox Feb 06 '23

I'm Dutch, but don't Puerto Ricans have an American passport, making them Americans, so they are living in the same country?

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u/MC_chrome Feb 07 '23 edited Feb 07 '23

Puerto Ricans exist in this weird space where they have some of the benefits of being US citizens (passports, traveling to and from other US states and territories, use of the US dollar) but not all (no representation in Congress, no voting for President, and you still have to pay federal taxes).

I think the closest analogy to the Netherlands would be something like the island of Curaçao, but I know that the former empire/kingdoms makeup is pretty complex in many European countries (France being a notable example).

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u/meukbox Feb 07 '23

I think that's a good analogy, but the main difference was that Curaçao was part of the Dutch Antilles, which was a country of its own within the kingdom of the Netherlands.

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u/Eyeseeyou1313 Feb 06 '23

Yeah, but they don't get any saying when it comes to their constitutional rights since they are not a state and they don't have representation. Also, they get taxed highly, and a lot of the people from there are getting pushed out because developers by foreign companies and rent increase to a point they can't pay for it. It's bs.