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Rashid Carlos Jamil Marcano Rivera

Demonstrators wave flags as they participate in a march the day after the governor of Puerto Rico, Ricardo Rossello, resigned from his charge in San Juan, on July 25, 2019. (Ricardo Arduengo/AFP/Getty Images)

Puerto Rico wants statehood — but only Congress can make it the 51st state in the U.S.

Rashid Carlos Jamil Marcano Rivera