Trump’s wish to ‘trade’ Puerto Rico should be wake-up call | Commentary

This is the language of colonization, the language of ownership and disregard. It has been thus for 122 years, since that fateful day in 1898 when General Nelson Miles landed in Guánica, Puerto Rico, and claimed the island for the United States as part of the Spanish-Cuban-American War, a conflict the nation had no business entering since it was really a dispute between Cuba and Spain.