Someone, made a load of money to sanction that deal.
Magellan called it the Island of Thieves – it hasn’t improved much since then.
]]>The CNMI and Guam, although connected geographically and culturally, are completely separate politically. The CNMI is comprised of all the islands NORTH of Guam in the Marianas archipelago; hence, the Commonwealth of the NORTHERN Mariana Islands (CNMI).
The unincorporated U.S. Territory of Guam (pop. approx. 170,000) has its own government and nonvoting delegate in Congress. The CNMI (pop. approx. 60,000) has its own delegate.
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