The Referen-Dumb

Puerto Rican Alliance VP José L. Arbona: Congress must step in to resolve Puerto Rico's future status - The Hill's Global Affairs

Here is an excellent (and short) opinion article written by the VP of the Alianza de Libre Asociacion Soberano (eng: Alliance for Free Sovereign Association), more commonly referred to to as ALAS (which is Spanish for "Wings"). The organization has surfaced recently as a proponent of the sovereignty status option, and has done what it could to educate the island on this mysterious "third way" option.

This article outlines perfectly the problems with trying to interpret the November 2012 referendum on political status.

Did statehood win? Yes. Did it win clean? No. Is there enough support to consider the referendum as faulty? Oh hell yes. If you read this op-ed you will see roughly the argument that supports this and the statistically facts that leads one to consider the Referendum as having essentially failed to represent the voice of Puerto Rico in the terms of status resolution.