Summary: <p>The devastation caused by Hurricane Fiona has re-opened conversations about the unsustainable nature of Puerto Rico’s status as a colonial entity. Many are calling for statehood as a solution to bureaucratic challenges that slow down disaster relief.</p> <p>In revisiting this discussion, we hear from <a href="https://twitter.com/profponsakraus">Christina Ponsa-Kraus</a>, a Geroge Welwood Murray Professor of <a href="https://www.law.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/2021-06/Ponsa-Kraus%20Testimony%20submitted%2006-14-21_2.pdf">Legal History</a> at Columbia Law School and Dr. Charles Venator-Santiago, an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Connecticut, about the status of Puerto Rico’s future and the Island’s political possibilities. </p>
