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Using Puerto Rico as a model, Pantojas-Garcia explores the political process that led to the formulation of export-oriented development strategies and presents the alternative view that such strategies are ideological contructs that express the political and economic interests of dominant class coalitions, not of society as a whole

In 1898, Puerto Rico became a possession of the United States. Since then the government of the Island evolved from military rule to a Free Associated State, also known as Commonwealth. In spite of changes, Puerto Rico remains a possession that belongs to but it is not a part of the United States. Because of this, since its creation in 1952, the Commonwealth status has been considered by large sectors in Puerto Rico and in the international community as a colonial status. Puerto Ricans are divided between three alternatives: a more autonomous Commonwealth; independence; or statehood-becoming a state of the Union. Four plebiscites on the status question have been held in 1967, 1993, 1998, and 2012 but, save for Commonwealth in 1967, no formula has emerged overwhelmingly favored. The 2012 plebiscite expressed dissatisfaction with Commonwealth by a vote of 54% against to 46% in favor. Unless Congress-that holds sovereignty over Puerto Rico-acts, the stalemate will continue.

Introduction: Puerto Rican scholars have recently undertaken the task of re-interpreting the populist political project of the Partido Popular Democrático (PPD) during the decade of the 1940s. The new studies on this subject have focused on the class basis of the PPD's leadership, the class interests articulated in the policies adopted by the PPD government, and the structural context within which this party came to power and implemented its programme.

Son las "democracias de fachada" el producto de un mero acto de relaciones publicas para el consumo de la comunidad internacional, o hay algo mas detras de este comportamiento paradojico de la administracion norteamericana? El autor busca una respuesta mediante el analisis de los desarrollos recientes de la politica norteamericana hacia la region, utilizando especificamente los casos de El Salvador y Granada donde, a su entender, la administracion Reagan ha seguido con mayor consistencia la politica de instauracion de "democracias de fachada"