Weekly Report - 2 June 2011 (WR-11-22)

One hundred and twelve years. That's how long Puerto Rico has been a US colony, or in the less loaded official parlance, "an unincorporated territory" of the US - a Commonwealth, or ‘estado libre asociado'. It has waited nearly half of that time for a visit by a serving US President. President Barack Obama will rectify that on 14 June, with a one-day stop off in San Juan. The last visit was made by President John Kennedy in December 1961.

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