In Puerto Rico, as many as half a million people took to the streets to protest government corruption
against the government, and had to be dispersed near midnight with tear gas and rubber bullets in front of the governor’s mansion. That governor, Ricardo A.
The protesters chanted for Rosselló’s resignation, and though the governor had announced on Sunday that he would resign at the end of his term in 2020, that wasn’t good enough. The largest paper on the island,, has called for his immediate resignation, and that sentiment seems to have overwhelming popular support.
Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory, and while the island votes in presidential primaries, the people don’t have representation in Congress and don’t vote in the presidential election. The island has seen a mass exodus of its people in recent years, many to the United States, but the irony is that U.S. mismanagement of disasters like 2017’s Hurricane Maria have contributed to the state of entropy.
“You have totally grossly incompetent leadership at the top of Puerto Rico,” the president told reporters at the White House. “The leadership is corrupt and incompetent.” Through austerity and unemployment and debt crisis and general hardship, the 3.2 million people of Puerto Rico persist, but as conditions have worsened, an outbreak of fury like this was inevitable. And while Rosselló’s reign has indeed been incompetent and even cruel, it’s also long past time the U.S. started treating this “territory” as a true part of the country, worthy of greater social welfare and the kind of hands-on rehabilitation we’d afford to any other state.
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