<HTML>In a message dated 4/15/2003 8:32:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time, farmelantj@juno.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Sergio, Whatever made you think that, especially given the fact that Puerto Rico is an American colony? </BLOCKQUOTE> Puerto Rico was a Spanish Colony for close to 400 years before the US came.  Is very conservative in many aspects and the propaganda from the US at the time made it sound as if it was very liberal.  I was young and I bought it, what can I say. Sergio</HTML>