Puerto Rico Reborn!
An island wants to reunite with Spain and be autonomous community number 18. The problem is that it currently belongs to the USA.
We have it a while ago, in the face of secessionism, both in Europe and in other continents we find the face of the other currency: movements that what they are looking for is the union against separation. One of them has sounded again these days. Actually, it is not new, but it always gives speaking in the case of a very particular territory of the United States … and that wants to be part of Spain.
Union is strength. As we said, this other face of the currency travels shared historical and historical narratives, from the longing Autonomous Community number 18 of Spain.
There is more, since Tyrol of the South has revived in the past old belongings Habsburg-Germanic when dreaming of a reintegration in Austria, while in the “Great Albania” ethnic-national ghosts were revived still lit in the Balkans. Iberism, more lyrical than political, evoked the peninsular union between Spain and Portugal, sustained more by nostalgic intellectuals than by movements with real citizen traction.
In parallel, the “great Hungary” continued to beating on the banks of Magaria nationalism, especially among the Hungarians who were out of the borders after the Trianon Treaty, and in Valonia, a small game dreams of returning to France a strip of the old Napoleonic space.
The same end. All these movements, although of little practical viability, reveal that identities not only fragment: sometimes they also seek to reconstitute, as if the map of Europe, far from stabilizing, it was still an unfinished canvas where some peoples aspire to…