Has the headline of this post put you to sleep already? If so, enjoy the zees. If not, you may be interested in this link: from Huffington Post. That represents where discussion stood as of July 1, anyway. As it happens, July 1 was the day Puerto Rico defaulted on its general obligation bonds. The last-minute Congressional action in contemplation of a restructuring of those debts was too last minute to prevent this. Given this coincidence of timing: what does the platform say about Puerto Rico? It gets a paragraph at the bottom of p. 16, after (and longer than) a separate graf on the "people of the territories" generally. The paragraph on Puerto Rico takes while to get around to the debt issue, but it ends with that: "Finally, we believe that Washington must respect Puerto Rico’s local self-government as Congress and the Executive Branch work to provide the necessary tools and aid that Puerto Rico needs to restructure its debt so that it can get on a path...
