In Washington the Supreme Court has rejected an effort to give residents of Puerto Rico the right to vote in U.S. presidential elections. “No territory of the United States has ever been able to participate in the presidential elections of the United States of America,” Puerto Rican political analyst Juan Manuel Garcia-Passalacqua. “That fact only serves to underscore that Puerto Rico is now in the thinking of the United States Supreme Court a miserable colony of the United States.”