At Washington event, resident commissioner insists PR ‘is not a colony’

From left, Puerto Rico Mayors Association President Jorge “Georgie” González Otero, Resident Commissioner Pablo José Hernández Rivera and Dartmouth College professor David A. Rezvani, author of “Surpassing the Sovereign State” (Oxford University Press, 2014). By THE STAR STAFF Resident Commissioner Pablo José Hernández Rivera asserted Thursday that Puerto Rico “is not a colony,” using a public event in Washington, D.C. to reinforce his position that the commonwealth remains a valid,…