JOAQUIN “JACK” MARQUEZ is steeped in Puerto Rico politics. The native Puerto Rican has spent a lifetime shuttling between Washington and the island, on a mission to resolve the issue of Puerto Rico’s commonwealth status.
A Vietnam War veteran, Marquez is an advocate for Puerto Rico’s statehood and can recite the commonwealth’s political history at a moment’s notice. Despite little movement in Washington on the issue in the almost 40 years since he’s been active inside the Beltway, he is doggedly determined to persuade Congress to address Puerto Rico’s future, because the current status “not only denigrates the colonized but stains the soul of the colonizer,” he says.
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