One estimate of the protest on Monday in San Juan determined there were 500,000 protesting in the Puerto Rican capital
Protesters near the governor’s mansion in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images Monday marked ten straight days of protests in the streets of San Juan, Puerto Rico, as a crowd numbering in the tens of thousands called for the resignation of Governor Ricardo Rosselló, who is embroiled in competing scandals over bigoted text messages and a corruption probe that ended in the arrest of two top administration officials.
The scandals have aggravated a half-decade of crisis on the island. Already struggling with high unemployment and back-breaking debt, the island was devastated in 2017 by Hurricane Maria, which killed thousands and left Puerto Ricans waiting for power to return for up to 11 months. In the aftermath of the storm, the island’s population has continued to dwindle as more and more people leave for the mainland.
Gerardo Portela, the principal investment officer of Puerto Rico’s economic development bank, quit in protest hours after Rosselló made his announcement: “Unfortunately the events in recent weeks, including the attitudes reflected in the comments of officials and advisers of the current administration, do not match my values,” he wrote in his resignation.
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