PUERTO RICO.

• Position: IN THE NEWS 2018: North America - Brief article

This Caribbean island has been a U.S. territory since 1898, but in a 2017 referendum, Puerto Rican voters for the first time said they favored U.S. statehood. Puerto Ricans are already U.S. citizens and many serve in the U.S. military, but Puerto Rico has no representatives in Congress and doesn't get to vote in presidential elections. Statehood, however, may have to wait. Puerto Rico's economy is so bad it recently...