In the ever-lasting saga about the political status of the island of Puerto Rico, resident commisioner Luis Fortuño - instead of working for the real issues of the island, apparently prefers to confuse the residents of the island promising something that - for the last years - hasn't been solved.  In his own manner of twisting the truth and trying to make local headlines, he once again misleads the island, knowing for a fact the real issues inside his political message:

Will Puerto Rico be a state or an independent republic before the general elections of 2012?

"I hope that by then we have solved our status." - Fortuño 

But aren't you saying to your residents, such as other leaders of your local political party have stated before without any results, that in four years you will bring statehood to Puerto Rico? 

"I cannot promise bringing neither.  I have promised with all of my strength that I will look for a mechanism that can vinculate the Congress and Puerto Rico, in order that the people can express themselves in terms of their status.  My wishes and my strength are focused that the people chooses statehood." - Fortuño

The story has a long backstory to this which I will write later on.  Still, the truth of the fact is that it's been the same story over and over again.  While the political debate stays focused on the status by some political leaders, it is the people of Puerto Rico who suffer the consecuences due to lack of good legislature and leadership from part of our elected officers.  Who knew that Fortuño would end up as a "flip-flop"?

References:

El Nuevo Día (local newspaper) article

Report by the President's Task Force on Puerto Rico's Status