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Long story short... Puerto Rico was controled by Spain since 1493. The US didn't want European countries be so close to the Americas. That's when the Spanish-American war started primarily as a part of Cuban Independence. Puerto Rico was given to US as a gift at the end of the war for a token price of $20.000,000 which was extended to Spain to exit the northern and Western Hemisphere.

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when the U.S. win the spanish American can war, Spain gave Puerto Rico as a "dont hurt us gift" Puerto Rico is a commonwealth to the U.S. we offered to add them to a 51st state.the U.S. would want to control Puerto Rico for its own purposes

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The US controls Puerto Rico.

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