First-time marchers stood with retired teachers and government workers, union members and longtime political activists, pro-statehood residents and supporters of independence.
Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds.Across the island, Puerto Ricans took to the streets following years of corruption and mismanagement at the hands of government leaders. They waved flags and handscrawled signs. They banged drums and pots and pans. They spoke out against suffocating debt, school closings and public service cuts.
That the people of Puerto Rico are changing their way of thinking is a step forward."Carlos Alsina, 27 "I'm a public school teacher," he says."We are fighting for our students and for education, for an end to the corruption in the Education Department. We need all federal and public funds dedicated to schools and more books and material and better salaries for the teachers.
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