Colonialist policies are turning Puerto Rico into a playground for rich tax evaders.
, “Now we are saddled with unsustainable debt payments for decades with little to no reforms to improve the delivery of essential services, no tools for economic development and no end in sight to the junta's yoke on our people. Now is the time to audit the debt, cancel illegal claims and make Puerto Rico whole again.”
The worry is that those who don’t have much interest in making “Puerto Rico whole again” — la junta, high-priced lawyers, government enablers, Wall Street, Congress and even the White House — are more than content to keep the colonial status quo intact. This latest decision has a small group of winners but, as has been the case for more than a century, the biggest losers are the people of Puerto Rico.
As a Puerto Rican who was born and shaped by the island, that is the exhausting reality. The notion of progress is just an illusion. The burden of the colonizers’ errors will still fall on a proud people disgusted that power on the island still resides with those colonizers and their local allies.
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