1. CIA - The World Factbook - Puerto Rico accessed on November 13, 2006.

2. United Nations special decolonization committee- Puerto Rico.

3. report accessed on April 9, 2007

4. Iñigo Abbad y Lasierra. Historia Geográfica, Civil y Natural de la Isla de San Juan Bautista de Puerto Rico.

5. Vieques Island - What lies beneath.

6. Brief Chronology of Puerto Rico.

7. Presently, Puerto Ricans are also known as Boricuas, or people from Borinquen.

8. Vicente Yáñez Pinzón was the first appointed governor but he never arrived on the island.

9. Treaty of Paris (1898)

10. García, Marvin. Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos. National-Louis University. Retrieved on 2006 April 28.

11. Latino/a Education Network Service, retrieved 5 February 2007

12. Anglelo Falcón, "Atlas of Stateside Puerto Ricans", Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration, published 6 December 2004, retrieved 5 February 2007

13. Act of July 3, 1950, Ch. 446, 64 Stat. 319.

14. Constitution of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico - in Spanish (original).

15. Constitution of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico - in English (translation).

16. Elevations and Distances in the United States. U.S Geological Survey (29 April 2005). Retrieved on 2006 November 9.

17. Los Lagos de Puerto Rico (Spanish)

18. Island Directory.

19. Martínez Cruzado, Juan C. (2002). The Use of Mitochondrial DNA to Discover Pre-Columbian Migrations to the Caribbean:Results for Puerto Rico and Expectations for the Dominican Republic. KACIKE: The Journal of Caribbean Amerindian History and Anthropology [On-line Journal], Special Issue, Lynne Guitar, Ed. Available at: http://www.kacike.org/MartinezEnglish.pdf [Date of access: 25 September, 2006]

20. Puerto Rico DP-1. Profile of General Demographic Characteristics: 2000.

21. Fundación Príncipe de Asturias

22. Rules of the House of Representatives

23. For the complete statistics regarding these plebiscites please refer to Elections in Puerto Rico:Results.

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25. PPD Party Resolution #2006-02 (Spanish)

26. LinktoPR.com - Fundación de los Pueblos.

27. PRLDEF.

28. U.S. Census - Median Family Income.

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30. Rodríguez, Magdalys. "No hubo acuerdo y el gobierno amaneció cerrado", El Nuevo Día. Retrieved on 2006 May 1.(Spanish)

31. Miguel Díaz Román. "Incierto el impacto del nuevo tributo", El Nuevo Día, 2006-11-15. Retrieved on 2006 November 15. (in Spanish)

32. BBC Sports - Olympics 2004.

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